pumpkin scones

Fall and baking just go together, am I right? 

I had a little get together with some friends the other night and wanted to make something that would make the house smell like fall. Enter pumpkin scones. 

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 T. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1/2 t. cinnamon

1/2 t. nutmeg

1/4 t. cloves

1/4 t. ginger

6 T. cold butter, cut into cubes

1/2 cup + 3 T. pumpkin puree 

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Add butter with a pastry cutter (or two knives, cutting against each other) until the mixture looks like pebbles. Gently stir in the pumpkin until barely mixed. Divide the dough in half and make two 6-inch rounds. Cut each round into 6 wedges. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 13-15 minutes. Let cool completely and drizzle with sugar and spice glaze. 

Glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar

2 T. milk 

Mix together until frosting form. Drizzle half of the glaze over cooled scones. Then add: 

1/4 t. cinnamon

1/4 t. nutmeg

pinch of ginger

pinch of cloves

... to make your spice glaze. Drizzle the rest of it over the scones. Let the glaze set before eating. 

Enjoy!