Recipe: Yummy Ray's' Carrot Cake Scones

Ray's' Carrot Cake Scones. Have carrot cake for breakfast with these tender, spiced carrot cake scones, finished with a tangy cream cheese glaze. (Jump to Recipe). It's probably strange, given my obsession with carrot cake, that I haven't actually shared a recipe for carrot cake with you yet. These carrot cake scones are made a little healthier with whole grains, less sugar and maple sweetened cream cheese frosting!

These carrot cake scones have a lovely gentle spice, with a lightly spiced buttercream frosting, and are moist and delicious. What makes these carrot cake scones healthier? They are packed with carrots; Dates are the natural sweetener (there's no refined sugar) These subtly spiced carrot cake scones with maple cream cheese glaze are perfect for a Spring or Easter breakfast or brunch spread! You can cook Ray's' Carrot Cake Scones using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ray's' Carrot Cake Scones

1. It's 1 box of Carrot Cake Mix.
2. You need 1 cup of shredded carrots.
3. It's 1 cup of milk.
4. It's 1 pinch of nutmeg.
5. Prepare 1 pinch of ground cloves.
6. Prepare 3 tbsp of sugar.
7. Prepare 3 cup of ap flour.
8. Prepare 1 stick of chopped cold butter.
9. You need of sugar drizzle: optional.
10. You need 5 tbsp of powder sugar.
11. You need 1 tbsp of water.

I figured we have more than enough traditional carrot cake recipes to choose from, but scones? Fluffy carrot cake scones that can served at all times of the day? I am a real scone lover. People have a tendency to think that they are the same thing as baking powder biscuits, but they couldn't be further from the truth!

Ray's' Carrot Cake Scones step by step

1. preheat oven to 400 and parchment line a baking sheet.
2. add cake mix, carrots, sugar spices 2 cups flour, and cubed butter to a large bowl. I corporate butter using a pastry cutter or you can use your hand in crumble butter into cake mix. Make a well in center add in milk incorporate makeing a dough. Slowly add in last cup of flour in incorporate till you get a dough..
3. lightly flour counter and roll out dough to desired thickness. cut with a knife. Add to baking sheet bake 25min..
4. sugar drizzle: combine powder sugar & water mix well drizzle on top if desired.

Because I had baked these Clean Carrot Cake Scones the night before, I packaged up a few for my friend to snack on as he traveled back that Apparently he loves carrot cake as much as I do! After dropping him off at the train station, my phone lit up with another text… "Holy cow these are amazing! Be the first to rate & review! Celebrate spring with these cute carrot-shaped scones (that give a hat tip to the carrot cake flavor inside). The queen of spring cakes, now in a tender scone.