SCD Recipe: Cherry Vanilla Scones

Written by Sherry Lipp Published on July 25, 2011 in SCD Biscuits, SCD Breads, SCD Breakfast, SCD Recipe

I had a lot of cherries that I wanted to use before they went bad. I decided to try added them to scones, and it turned out good. I used olive oil in this recipe. Usually I use butter in baked goods, and you can substitute, but I’m trying to use more good fats and less saturated. I recently saw in a Mediterranean cookbook that olive oil is used in cakes and cookies. I decided it give it a try. While the buttery taste was not there (obviously), the texture was really nice. The scones were soft and moist and seemed a little lighter than ones I have made with butter.

2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup honey
1/3 cup olive oil
2 eggs
1 tbsp pure vanilla
1/2 cup chopped fresh red cherries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl sift almond flour, baking soda, and salt. In a small bowl whisk honey, oil, eggs and vanilla. Stir the wet mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until combined, but do not over mix. Fold in cherries.

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Drop by large spoonfuls onto the baking sheet – about a fourth cup of dough.

Bake for 13 – 17 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cherry Vanilla Scones

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Sherry Lipp

Founder at Happy Gut For Life

Sherry is a Certificed Holistic Gut Practioner, author, and recipe creator. Sherry started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in 2000 and has been creating delicious, grain and gluten-free recipes ever since. She is the author of the Don't Skip Dessert SCD cookbooks.

4 Comments

myscd
July 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm · Reply

Wow! They sound amazing. Just need to work almond flour into my diet before I can try them! Consider this page bookmarked!
John Delahaye
March 30, 2012 at 3:43 pm · Reply

Made these today. First time using almond flour. In fact I still haven’t used almond flour because I bought ground almonds thinking it was the same thing. Took a while to sift it put it that way! So yeah, very tasty. I put a bit too much salt in mine and had the cooker turned up too high (Gas mark 4 guys not 6) and forgot to whisk the wet ingredients… come to think of it it’s lucky it turned out well at all. 😉
Monica
April 22, 2012 at 2:58 pm · Reply

I made these today with dried apricots-had no cherries. They were very tasty. I also used spectum shortening instead of olive oil. Will make these again 🙂
Daniel
January 25, 2019 at 3:54 pm · Reply

Positively delicious!

These are going into my favorites!
Thank you so much for the great recipe!