Recipes Scones & Shortcake Recipes Lemon Scones Back to Scones & Shortcake Recipes Lemon Scones Total Time 35m Prep Time 10m Bake Time 25m Serves 8 Skill Level Easy Dietary Needs Veg Vegetarian 1 Review 5 star rating Share These lemon scones are so yummy and easy to make. They're soft and light with a crumbly and slightly crunchy outside. We've added a lemon drizzle topping with a sprinkling of poppy seeds for that extra punch of sweet lemony flavour. Fancy spreading some lemon curd in the middle? We've got the perfect lemon curd recipe. You don't need an occasion to bake these tangy treats, just a day ending with a 'Y' is a good enough reason in our books. Method Preheat your oven to 190ºc/ 170ºc fan/ gas mark 5, Line a baking sheet with some baking parchment. Mix together the flour and salt in a large bowl. Rub in the butter until you have a breadcrumb consistency. Stir in the sugar and lemon zest from 1 lemon In a separate bowl, beat the egg and stir in 3 tbsp of the buttermilk. Add this to the flour mixture and gently mix in. Add the final 1 tbsp of buttermilk and bring the mixture togther with your hands. Add a little more flour if the mixture is too sticky. Turn out onto a floured surface and form a flat round. Roll or press out into a 20cm/8in circle. Transfer this to the baking sheet and mark into 8 segments with a knife. Bake for 25 minutes but check for doneness after 20 minutes. When cooked allow to cool completely on a rack. Make the glaze by combining the icing sugar, lemon juice and water. When the scone is cool, pour over the glaze and sprinkle with poppyseeds and lemon zest. Allow to set before serving. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe Afternoon Tea Al Fresco Dining Quick and Easy Speedy Bakes Vegetarian Reviews 24 December 2020 5 star rating Yes! This recipe is great. I've made it twice now! thanks Baking Mad Leave Your Thoughts Your Rating 5 stars4 stars3 stars2 stars1 star Email Your Review Ingredients Metric For the Scones 225g Allinson's Self Raising Flour ½ tsp Salt 75g Butter 50g Billington's Golden Caster Sugar This is the highest quality caster sugar available and is a great natural alternative to refined caster sugar. It has a warm golden colour from its unrefined nature and is fine grained with a subtle buttery taste, making it perfect for deliciously light sponges, shortbread and macaroons. 1 Large Egg 4 tbsp Buttermilk 15g Poppy Seeds from 1 lemon Lemon Zest For the Lemon Drizzle 300g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar This is refined white sugar ground to a fine powder with the addition of an anti-caking agent. It dissolves on contact with liquid and is therefore used to sweeten foods that require a smooth texture. It can be used to cover cupcakes and sponges, is easy to colour and flavour and is perfect for butter cream. 1 tbsp Lemon Juice 1 tbsp Water ½ tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract Vanilla extract is a superior flavouring ingredient, derived solely from the vanilla pod by soaking it in alcohol and water. Only vanilla extract has the true flavour and aroma of vanilla pods, producing a fuller, richer taste which will transform the taste of any recipe. Vanilla is also a flavour enhancer so will work with other ingredients and flavours in a recipe to give amazing results! It is a versatile ingredient which can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes, try it in your cakes, cupcakes and buttercream. We always recommend using an extract rather than essence when baking. Our favourite extract is Nielsen-Massey, it gives consistently great results, the vanilla pods are handpicked in the finest growing regions of Mexico, Tahiti and Madagascar and enter a cold extraction process to extract the vanilla from the pod whilst still preserving over 300 flavour compounds. 2 tbsp Poppy Seeds from 1 lemon Lemon Zest Utensils Baking Sheet Baking Parchment Mixing Bowl Rolling Pin Sharp Knife Cooling Rack