Birthday Cake Scones with Fresh Milled Flour
Are you ready to celebrate with these Birthday Cake Scones with Fresh Milled Flour? Light the candles, break out the balloons, or simply close your eyes and savor a scone—it’s a celebration, and it’s all for you. And doesn’t everything taste better with colorful sprinkles? Sometimes you just need a bright spot in a dull week, and these scones are exactly that.
What Do You Need?
Food Processor Method:
The food processor is my favorite way to make scones. It’s super easy and ensures the perfect size butter pieces.
- No Food Processor? No problem! With a cheese grater, grate very cold butter into flour mixture and mix together with a fork, until the butter pieces are coated in flour.
Pulse dry ingredients – Start by adding the fresh milled flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt to the bowl of a food processor. Then pulse several times to mix everything together.
Add in butter – Next, add a stick of COLD butter in 10 pieces. Pulse multiple times, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs and there are no butter pieces larger than pea size.
Mix together – Add the dry ingredients to a large bowl, add in chilled wet ingredients and sprinkles, fold with a spatula until the dough starts to comes together.
- Dough Note: Scone dough using fresh milled flour is wetter than normal scone dough. Keep a generous amount of flour handy to use on your work surface and hands while you shape the dough into a disc.
Shape and cut – Turn mixture out onto a well floured surface and with floured hands, gently knead to bring the dough together and shape into a 1 inch thick, 7 inches across, disc. Cut into 8 scones. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze 30-60 minutes before baking.
- Freeze to bake later: After the scones are frozen transfer them to a freezer Ziploc bag. Freeze up to 3 months. Add a couple minutes to the baking time when baking scones from frozen.
Bake – Preheat oven to 400 degrees and bake for 19-22 minutes, until edges are crisp and lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool & add icing – Cool on pan for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack. Let scones cool for 10-15 minutes before glazing so the glaze doesn’t just melt off or absorb into the scones.
Then pop some candles on top, light them up, and celebrate YOU!
Birthday Cake Scones with Fresh Milled Flour
Ingredients
Scones
- 250 grams hard white wheat berries milled into flour
- 40 grams soft white wheat berries milled into flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar 100 grams
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons cold unsalted butter cut into 10-12 pats
- 3/4 cups milk 180 grams
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1/4 cup sprinkles (jimmies)
Vanilla Glaze
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Sprinkles for the top optional
Instructions
- Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
- In a small bowl or glass 2-cup measuring cup, add milk, egg, vanilla extract and almond extract and whisk to combine. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Add the fresh milled flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse several times to mix together. Next, add the stick of cold butter in 10 pieces and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with no butter pieces larger than pea size.
- Add contents of the food processor to a large bowl, pour in cold wet ingredients and sprinkles, fold with a spatula until it starts to comes together.*
- Turn mixture out onto a flour dusted surface and gently knead to bring the dough into a 1 inch thick disc, 7 inches across. Cut into 8 scones. Place on prepare baking sheet and freeze 30-60 minutes before baking.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and bake for 19-22 minutes, until edges are crisp and lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool on pan for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before glazing so the glaze doesn't just melt off the sides of the scones. Top with sprinkles (and candles?) and enjoy!
Glaze Instructions
- In a small bowl whisk together powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon milk and vanilla extract, whisk well, add milk 1/2 tablespoon at a time until you reach the perfect consistency. The glaze should be close to the consistency of honey.