Carrot Cake Scones

~ Tandy

Sometimes, the Google Machine can be amazing. At least once a day I scroll down the discover articles. Some of them are interesting, and others are spam based on a random subject I have discussed with someone. But, when the recipe popped up for almond flour carrot cake scones I knew I had to follow the link. I have adapted this recipe quite a bit to suit what I had at home. If you want to make the original ones, pop on over here to see the recipe.

Carrot Cake Scones
Carrot Cake Scones
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My favourite cake to order when out is a carrot cake. Mainly because the recipe usually calls for less sugar than other cakes. And also because I enjoy the cream cheese frosting. The sweetener for the cake will come from the carrots, and sometimes dates are used as well. Raisins offer their own sweetness, and spices are added for warmth. The first recipe for carrot cake can be found in L’art du cuisinier, which was published in 1814. The former chef to Louis XVI, Antoine Beauvilliers created the recipe for “Gâteau de Carottes”. In Switzerland, children’s birthday cakes are often a Rüeblitorte. This carrot cake will contain nuts and is topped with little carrots made from marzipan.

Little bites of pleasure

The “Dig for Victory” campaign encouraged people in the UK to grow their own produce. With an abundance of carrots, and a rationing of sugar, carrot cake was quite popular during WW2. Americans have taken the carrot cake a step further, with recipes appearing for cookies, whoopie pies, and energy bars. And, Julia at The Roasted Root gave us carrot cake scones. These are not prepared in the traditional way, but they have a scone like texture. And if you try just one scone recipe from this year’s International Scone Week, I think this is the one you should go for. What cake would you turn into a scone?

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Carrot Cake Scones

If you love carrot cake, you will love these scones!
Recipe Category: Baking, Scones
Makes enough for: 8 scones
All Rights Reserved: Adapted from The Roasted Root

Ingredients

  • 80 mls maple syrup
  • 40 mls canola oil
  • 5 mls vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 160 g almond flour
  • 130 g Cotswold crunch flour
  • 5 mls baking powder
  • 3.75 mls ground cinnamon
  • 2.5 mls ground ginger
  • 1.25 mls fine salt
  • 0.625 mls bicarbonate of soda
  • 90 g grated carrots
  • 37 g walnuts, lightly toasted and roughly chopped
  • 32 g raisins
  • 23 g coconut flakes, lightly toasted

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 190° Celsius
  • Place the syrup, oil, vanilla and egg into a mixing bowl and whisk to combine
  • Add the almond flour, Cotswold crunch, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, salt and bicarbonate of soda and mix until a dough forms
  • Add the carrots, walnuts, raisins and coconut and mix well to distribute the ingredients through the dough
  • Line a baking tray with baking paper and use an ice cream scoop to scoop double scoops of the dough for each scone
  • Place the baking tray into the oven and bake for 25 minutes
  • Remove the baking tray from the oven and leave the scones to cool for 10 minutes on the tray before serving
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I am passionate about using regional, seasonable and sustainable produce when I cook. I live in Gordons Bay with my husband and dogs. We visit new places locally and overseas as often as we can to experience the food of the area. Follow along on our adventures!

22 thoughts on “Carrot Cake Scones”

  1. Am laughing! You and your scones!!! But these are absolute beauties and I wish I had one here at the moment finishing a mug of afternoon coffee! I love all the ingredients and your very careful measurements – but with cakes one has to 🙂 ! And I HAVE made plenty of carrot cakes !!! Hoping your winter is treating you kindly . . . I am panning a herb garden for spring . . .

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  2. Oh yes that is a different way of making scones. I really love carrot cake so this sounds fabulous.
    Sherry

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  3. This recipe sounds fabulous Tandy. My daughter loves carrot cake and scones so I must make these for her when next we are together. I would turn my ginger cake into scones, I’ve already kind of done that with the recipe I will post for Scone week. I’m a bit challenged for time, so I will submit one I posted this year, once I find where to do it:)

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  6. This recipe sounds excellent! I have never tried making carrot scones before, but i love carrot cake, so I’m definitely bookmarking this.

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  9. And here I thought I had made every permutation of carrot cake-flavored things… Scones, of course! I need to make scones. This is so smart, especially because I should already have all the ingredients on hand. I’m definitely going to play with this idea ASAP.

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  10. Delicious looking scones and I love that they are sweetened with maple syrup and raisins.

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