Cinnamon and Apple Scone
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2025 · 8 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More butter than 93% of recipes and less liquid than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 93% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- Less liquid than 90% of recipes: 33% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- More sugar than 84% of recipes: 34% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%.
- More egg than 80% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%.
Ingredients (13)
- 1 large ((6 oz/170 g) Granny Smith apple)170 g
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice≈ 4.9 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- ⅓ cup (2 ½ fl oz/80 ml) buttermilk≈ 81 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- 1 ¾ cups (8 ¾ oz/247 g) all-purpose flour247 g
- ½ cup (3 oz/85 g) dark brown sugar85 g
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder≈ 12 g
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 3.9 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ½ cup (4 oz/115 g) butter (, cold and diced)115 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Egg washn/a
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) cinnamon sugar57 g
flour 247 gbatter 776 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 660 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter47% · 94th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid33% · 10th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar34% · 85th percentile · median 20%
- Egg20% · 81st percentile · median 16%
- Leavening4.7% · 60th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.2% · 75th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 22 to 25 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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