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Whole Wheat Pumpkin Scones




Source of Recipe


Finding Radiance


List of Ingredients




2 cups of white whole wheat flour (240 g)
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 stick of cold butter (4 tablespoons)
2 eggs
1/2 cup of canned pumpkin
1 tablespoon of milk.


Recipe



Preheat the oven to 375 F. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, both sugars, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice.



Dice the butter into small pieces. Make sure it is very cold butter.



Add the butter to the dry mixture.



You can use a pastry wire cutter to mix in the butter, but I find that clean hands are your best tool for this job as you get a much better mixing. You want the mixture to look kind of sandy when finished:



You can put this mix in the fridge to keep cold while you mix the wet ingredients (or are waiting for your husband to return with the milk that you forgot you were out of).

Combine the eggs, pumpkin and milk together and mix well.



Add to the dry ingredients.



Mix until everything is just moistened and turn out onto a floured surface. Keep some flour nearby for dusting, as the dough may be sticky.



Using your hands, press and form into a rectangle about 1/2 inch thick. You probably could use a rolling pin, but why dirty another piece of kitchen equipment?



Cut this in half the long way. Cut each half into 3 equal pieces, then cut each of those squares on the diagonal so that you have 12 pieces (each half of the above dough will make 6 triangles).



Do try to make them even

Bake at 375 degrees F for 15 minutes. Do not over bake.



Makes 12 scones. Nutritional info per scone

Calories: 151
Fat 5 g
Carbs: 23.6 g
Fiber: 2.3 g
Protein: 3.9 g

Topping ideas:

- You can mix together 1 tbsp of neufchatel cheese with 1 tbsp of powdered sugar to make a cream cheese frosting and add only 70 calories and 3 grams of fat to each scone. Compare 220 calories to Starbucks Pumpkin Scone at 480 calories.

- Or mix a wedge of Laughing Cow with cinnamon Splenda to top (which would be 35 calories)

- Make fat free glaze by mixing powdered sugar with a little milk.

- Sprinkle the scones with large sugar crystals before baking.

We topped with a sprinkle of crystallized ginger, too. Awesome!