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Matcha scones drizzled with matcha icing scattered on a wooden board.

Matcha Scones

Author: Gail Ng
Soft and fluffy matcha scones topped with drizzles of matcha icing
4.91 from 11 votes
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Chilling Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 13 minutes
Yield 8 scones
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Scones

  • 240 g all-purpose flour
  • 100 g granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon matcha powder, ceremonial grade or high-quality culinary grade
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 115 g unsalted butter, cold and finely cubed
  • 115 g heavy cream, cold
  • 1 large egg, cold
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon heavy cream, for brushing on scones
  • 3 tablespoons coarse sugar, for sprinkling

Icing (optional)

  • 50 g powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon matcha powder, ceremonial grade or high-quality culinary grade
  • 4 teaspoons heavy cream

Instructions
 

Scones

  • Prep: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Mix dry ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, matcha powder, baking powder, and salt.
    Left to right: dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, stirring flour mixture together in a bowl.
  • Cut butter into flour: Add the cubed butter and toss to coat in the flour mixture. Break the butter pieces into small pea-sized pieces with a dough blender or by pressing them in between your fingers.
    Left to right: cubes butter in a bowl of flour mixture, hand pressing butter pieces in between fingers.
  • Mix wet ingredients: In a separate medium bowl, whisk together heavy cream, the egg, and vanilla extract.
    Left to right: cracking an egg into a bowl of heavy cream, whisking egg and cream together with a fork.
  • Add wet mixture - Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture. Pour the wet mixture into the well and mix until it forms a soft and crumbly dough. Some dry patches are fine but the dough should hold together when pressed.
    Left to right: pouring wet mixture into a bowl of flour, hand mixing dough together in a bowl.
  • Press dough together: Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. With floured hands, press the dough together into a flattened disc shape that's about 1" thick.
    Left to right: hands pressing scone dough together, hand pressing down on dough to flatten it.
  • Cut dough: Use a bench scraper or a knife to cut the dough into 8 wedges. Transfer them to your lined baking sheet, leaving about 2" in between each one.
    Left to right: cutting dough into wedges with a bench scraper, hand placing a wedge of scone dough on a baking sheet.
  • Chill and preheat: Place the entire baking sheet into the fridge to chill while you preheat the oven to 400°F.
  • Brush scones: Right before baking, brush the tops of each scone with a thin layer of heavy cream. Sprinkle coarse sugar on top of the cream.
    Left to right: brushing a scone with heavy cream, sprinkling a scone with coarse sugar.
  • Bake: Bake scones for 18-20 minutes or until the tops are lightly golden brown. Let them cool on the baking sheet until firm enough to transfer to a wire rack.

Icing

  • Mix: In a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar, matcha powder, and heavy cream until it becomes a thick but fluid icing. If it's too thick, add a bit more cream. If it's too thin, add a bit more powdered sugar.
    Left to right: icing ingredients in a bowl, mixing matcha icing in a bowl with a spoon.
  • Drizzle: Transfer the icing to a piping bag, cut the tip off, and drizzle it on top of each scone, or simply add a dollop on top of each one with a spoon.
    Left to right: piping icing on top of a wire rack full of matcha scones, close-up of piping a drizzle of icing on top of a baked scone.

Nutrition

Calories: 383kcal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 73mg | Sodium: 465mg | Potassium: 64mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 771IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 113mg | Iron: 2mg
Keywords green tea scones, matcha scones
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