Cinnamon Chip Scones {Best Basic Scone Recipe}
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2016 · 12 scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More butter than 80% of recipes and less leavening than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 80% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- Less leavening than 84% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (11)
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (see note about whole wheat flour)≈ 438 g
- 1/3 cup sugar≈ 67 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 3/4 cup cold salted butter cut into tablespoon-size pieces≈ 170 g
- 1 cup cold buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- 3/4 cup cinnamon chips (see note)≈ 128 g
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted≈ 28 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Granulated sugar for sprinklingn/a
flour 438 gbatter 1092 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.
- Butter45% · 87th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid56% · 58th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar15% · 36th percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening2.8% · 14th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0.7% · 43rd percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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