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Warm, buttery, and bursting with cinnamon flavor, these homemade cinnamon scones are the perfect treat for breakfast or an afternoon snack. With tender, flaky centers and golden, crisp edges, each bite is a delicious balance of sweetness and spice. Tasty cinnamon chips add just the right amount of crunch. A simple glaze drizzled on top takes them from delicious to irresistible. Pair with your favorite coffee or tea for a cozy, bakery-style experience at home. Served warm, they are sure to impress.
These warm, buttery and delicious cinnamon scones are perfect for brunch or you can enjoy them anytime, perhaps with a cup of coffee or tea.
Do you enjoy baking? You might also like to try zesty lemon almond scones, savory cheddar bacon scones, or the tropical taste of these pineapple scones.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy to make: This recipe is simple to follow, even if you haven’t made a scones recipe before.
No need to chill the dough: You can expect great results from this recipe without having to chill the dough.
Such delicious scones: If you like cinnamon, you’re definitely going to love these tasty cinnamon scones, especially served warm! They’re so good.
Cinnamon Scones with Glaze Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
White sugar: For sweetness.
Brown sugar: For a warm flavor and sweetness.
Ground cinnamon: For that wonderful earthy cinnamon taste.
Cinnamon chips: I love these Hershey’s cinnamon baking chips.
Salted butter: This needs to be chilled.
Baking powder: To get the texture just right.
Egg: To bind the dough.
Vanilla extract: Adds a complementary flavor.
Powdered sugar: To sweeten the glaze.
Half & Half: To make the glaze.
How to Make Cinnamon Chip Scones
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Combine the dough ingredients: Mix the flour, white and brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and baking powder together. Cut in the cold butter cubes and then add the Half & Half, egg and vanilla, and mix until just combined. Fold in the cinnamon baking chips. Add more flour if needed.
Shape the scones: Shape the dough into a rectangle and cut it into squares and then triangles, so you get 6 scones.
Bake the scones: Arrange the scones on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake them until golden brown and set.
Prepare the glaze: Whisk the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and heavy cream to make a glaze. Drizzle it over the scones and let it set for a few minutes.
Serve and enjoy: Serve the scones warm.
Substitutions and Variations
Gluten-free option: If you want a gluten-free version, use gluten-free flour and use a starch-free baking powder.
Sugar: You could use all white sugar or all brown sugar instead of some of each, but it will affect the flavor as well as the texture of the dough.
Ground cinnamon: You can use pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice instead for a bolder flavor.
Salted butter: Use unsalted butter with a pinch of salt instead.
Half & Half: Milk and heavy cream are good substitutes in the dough. If they are used in the glaze though, they’ll affect the texture, heavy cream making it thicker or milk making it thinner.
A different glaze: Swap the vanilla extract for another flavor, perhaps almond extract or, if you really love cinnamon, a cinnamon extract!
Serving Suggestions
For brunch: Serve up some cinnamon sugar scones with your savory breakfast items, perhaps eggs benedict, crispy bacon and breakfast potatoes.
As a snack: Enjoy a cinnamon scone as a snack with a Starbucks copycat pink drink or iced gingerbread latte.
For dessert: The sweetness of cinnamon scones makes them a tasty dessert option, either just as they are or paired with something else like tiramisu cookies.
How to Store Glazed Cinnamon Scones
Store: Keep your scones in an airtight container at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Freeze: You can freeze these in an airtight container for 2 or 3 months.
Thaw: Defrost in the refrigerator overnight or at room temperature for a couple of hours.
Reheat: Warm them back up in a 350°F oven for 5 to 10 minutes. You could also microwave them.
Top Tips
Use very cold butter: The butter has to be chilled which means in the fridge for long enough to be completely chilled through (an hour or two).
No over-mixing: Over-working the dough softens the butter and using soft or not chilled butter means dense rather than fluffy, light scones.
Bake immediately or chill: Either bake the scones as soon as you’ve prepared them or wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate until it’s time to bake (you can chill it for up to 48 hours before baking). This is to ensure the dough isn’t too warm when it goes in the oven, which would result in hard, dense scones.
Cinnamon Scones Recipe FAQs
Made of cinnamon, sugar, shortening, and corn syrup, these chips are intensely flavored with cinnamon and are perfect for adding to baked goods such as scones, cakes, cupcakes, and pastries for a bold flavor.
It’s not compulsory but the glaze does finish them off beautifully so I’d recommend you glaze them. You can always swap the vanilla extract for another extract to change the flavor if you want to.
Best Glazed Cinnamon Chip Scones Recipe
Cinnamon Scones
Equipment
- Stand Mixer with Hook Attachment (Optional)
Ingredients
For the Scones:
- 2⅔ to 3 Cups all purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 1½ Teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ Cup salted butter, chilled and cut into ½ inch cubes
- ⅔ Cup cinnamon baking chips
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- ⅓ Cup light brown sugar, lightly packed
- ⅓ Cup granulated white sugar
- 2½ Teaspoons baking powder
- ½ Cup Half & Half, at room temperature (plus 1 or 2 Tablespoons if you want to brush the scone tops)
- 1½ Teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Glaze:
- 2 Tablespoons Half & Half
- 1⅓ Cup powdered sugar
- ½ Teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet pan with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 400°F.
Make the Scones:
- Whisk the flour, white sugar, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and baking powder, together in a large mixing bowl.
- Cut the cold butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender until the mixture is crumbly and the butter forms pieces about the size of peas.
- Add in the Half & Half, egg and vanilla and mix until just combined, without overmixing. You could use a stand mixer for this step.
- Now fold in the cinnamon baking chips and turn the mixture out onto a floured surface. It should be a little sticky but not wet and it should hold its shape if pressed together. Add more flour, a bit at a time, until you get this consistency.
- Press the dough into a rectangle of about 3 x 9 inches and about 1 or 1½ inches thick – do not flatten it.
- Cut the dough into 3 even-sized squares and then cut diagonally to make triangles. Press them straight down quite firmly without using a sawing back and forth motion.
- Arrange the scones on the parchment paper. You might need to use a thin spatula or thin metal dough scraper to cut and to help the dough come unstuck from the counter.
- If you want a shiny finish, brush the scone tops with some Half & Half (optional).
Bake the Scones:
- Bake in the oven for 15 to 17 minutes or until the scones are golden brown underneath and set.
- Let them cool for 5 minutes.
Make the Glaze:
- Meanwhile, whisk the powdered sugar with heavy cream and vanilla until you achieve a thick, smooth glaze.
- Add more heavy cream or powdered sugar if you need to, to achieve the right consistency.
- Once the scones have cooled a bit, drizzle the glaze over them and let the glaze set for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Serve the scones warm.
Notes
No over-mixing: Over-working the dough softens the butter and using soft or not chilled butter means dense rather than fluffy, light scones.
Bake immediately or chill: Either bake the scones as soon as you’ve prepared them or wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate until it’s time to bake (you can chill it for up to 48 hours before baking). This is to ensure the dough isn’t too warm when it goes in the oven, which would result in hard, dense scones.
Nutrition
You’re going to love this cinnamon scone recipe. The scone dough is simple to prepare and these cinnamon chip scones are versatile enough to be breakfast, brunch, dessert, or a snack. Once you’ve combined the dough ingredients, you simply need to shape the scones, lay them on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake to golden brown perfection.
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These scones are everything I want in a homemade baked good—flaky, buttery, and packed with cinnamon flavor! I love them warm with my morning coffee.
Made these for brunch, and I also enjoy them with tea in the afternoon. I always find more reasons to snack on them.
These scones are everything! Warm, buttery, and perfectly spiced.
These scones were so flaky and buttery and they disappeared in minutes!