These Gluten Free Orange Scones are packed with fresh orange flavour and topped with a sweet homemade orange glaze, making them a perfect breakfast, brunch, or dessert for any season.
These orange scones are not hard and crunchy, they’ve got a soft interior with only a slight crunch in the top and bottom. Since these are a scone made using fresh orange juice, the added moisture helps keep these nice and soft and not dry and crumbly.
To make these scones I just tweaked my Gluten Free Plain Scones Recipe. I really wanted to infuse tons of orange flavour to these. To accomplish this I added orange juice and zest to the dough. Then I finished the scones with an icing sugar glaze spiked with more orange juice and topped off with more orange zest. The flakes of zest just look so pretty.
Scones require only a few ingredients and simple steps. There are just key things to remember to get a soft scone. All cold ingredients and don’t over mix. If you keep this in mind, you’ll get scones that are worth sharing to your friends and family just like this one. These are definitely my new favourite Scones, and I hope they will be yours too.
- 1½ cups/300g gluten free self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
- ¼ cup/50g granulated sugar
- ¼ cup/ 50g unsalted butter
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 egg
- 50ml freshly squeezed orange juice
- 50ml milk, plus extra for brushing
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp xanthan gum
- TO MAKE THE GLAZE
- 4tbsp Icing sugar
- 1tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
- Preheat the oven to 200C/350F/Gas 4
- Line a baking tray with baking paper. Set aside.
- Add the butter, sugar and zest to a large mixing bowl and sift in the gluten free flour, baking powder and xanthan gum. Using your fingers, rub the mix together until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the milk, orange juice and egg to a jug and beat lightly until combined. Pour into the flour mix and use a wooden spoon to bring the mix together. As soon as it comes together as a dough, It will still be quite sticky, lightly flour the worktop and turn it out.
- Knead the dough a couple of times to bring it together then use your hands to bring the dough into a circle, about 4'' thick. Cut into 6 triangles.
- Place the scones on the lined baking tray. Brush each scone with a little milk.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, until golden on top.
- Cool completely then make the glaze.
- TO MAKE THE GLAZE
- To make the glaze, combine all ingredients in a small bowl. When scones have cooled, drizzle glaze evenly over each scone.
