4 Ingredient Apple Scones
kirbiecravings.com · 2025 · 6 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
No sugar, unlike 91% of recipes and less butter than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No sugar at all, where 91% of recipes use some (most of those 14 to 30% of the flour weight).
- Less butter than 85% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- No salt at all, where 86% of recipes use some (most of those 0.6 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (4)
- 109 g (about 1 cup) chopped peeled apples (about 1 inch cubes) + 52 g (1/2 cup) finely chopped apples, cut into 1/8 to 1/4 inch cubes, divided161 g
- 2 cups (286g) self-rising flour (see note before starting)286 g
- ½ cup (4 fl oz/118ml) heavy cream (plus 1-2 tbsp more for brushing on top)≈ 119 g
- 4 tbsp (56g) unsalted butter (melted)56 g
flour 286 gbatter 622 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Butter20% · 15th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid42% · 22nd percentile · median 52%
- Sugar0% · 4th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening5% · 69th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0% · 7th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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