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New York Times Bestselling author Elana Amsterdam founded Elana’s Pantry, the go-to website for easy, healthy, grain-free, Paleo recipes, in 2006

Orange Poppy Seed Scones

Orange Poppy Seed Scones

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I made these paleo Orange Poppy Seed Scones in honor of Valentine’s day. Truth be told, this holiday is not much of a thing in our house. If it’s convenient, my husband and I will go out to dinner on the night of Valentine’s day to celebrate each other and our relationship. Frankly though, I don’t put much stock in this holiday. Feel free to call me a grinch! However, when it comes to baking I’m a total holiday geek. And these heart-shaped scones really bring out the baking nerd in me. I have tons of healthy Valentine’s recipes in my Paleo Valentine’s Day Dessert Recipes post!

How to Make Healthy Scones

If you’re wondering how to make healthy scones you’re totally in luck! These low-carb scones are made with a base of almond flour, a fantastically healthy ingredient and are very lightly sweetened with honey. I serve these scones with scrambled eggs and a small green salad. It’s an easy healthy paleo breakfast that the whole family loves!

Easy Orange Poppy Seed Scones Recipe

This gluten-free, dairy-free scone recipe contains 7 ingredients total. All you need to make it is almond flour, salt, baking soda, honey, egg, orange zest, and poppy seeds.

Valentine’s Day Scones

When I make these Orange Poppy Seed Scones, I use a heart-shaped cookie cutter of a fairly large size. In fact, the cookie cutter measures 2-½ inches wide at its widest point. If you use a smaller cookie cutter you will need to reduce the baking time of the scones or they will overcook. Likewise, if you make larger heart scones you will likely need to bake them for longer.

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Orange Poppy Seed Scones
Serves:6scones
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. In a food processor combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
  2. Pulse in honey, eggs, and orange zest
  3. Very briefly pulse in poppy seeds
  4. Roll out dough to ½-inch thick between 2 pieces of parchment paper
  5. Chill dough in freezer for 15 minutes
  6. Using a heart shaped cookie cutter, cut hearts out of dough
  7. Transfer to a parchment paper lined baking sheet
  8. Bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes
  9. Cool for 30 minutes
  10. Serve

Nut-Free Scones Recipe

For those of you with nut allergies, I have an incredible nut-free scone recipe called Paleo Chocolate Chip Scones. If you’re in need of egg-free dessert recipes I have dozens on my Egg-Free Recipes page, and a killer egg-free Vegan Chocolate Cupcake in my second book, Gluten-Free Cupcakes!

More Paleo Scones Recipes for You!

Here are some of my other grain-free paleo scones recipes:

Comments

  1. Followed the recipe exactly, but it was not batter. Extremely dry! What can I add to make the ingredients more batter-like?

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      • Hmmm! I used almond flour. It was actually Orange Apricot scones from your cookbook. Is there any correction I can make. Just hate to waste 3 cups of almond flour. I added an extra egg, but that didn’t help much. I must have done something wrong…Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Blessings, Robyn

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        • Robyn, thanks for letting me know that you were referring to the Orange Apricot Scones recipe on page 17 of this book:

          https://amzn.to/20XA3ic

          If you blend the ingredients as indicated in the second sentence of the second paragraph of the instructions for this recipe it will be perfect :-)
          Elana

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  3. I’ve noticed quite a few of your recipes have almond flour in them. Would coconut flour, or another alternative flour work? I’m allergic to almonds and would love to try these recipes with a different flour.

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    • Hi VG, I haven’t tried that so not sure. I use a food processor because I do not own a stand mixer :-)

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  6. I’ve always liked orange scones but haven’t had them with poppy seeds. I’ll save this recipe for future making. Thank you for sharing.

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  8. Aloha from Hawaii. I made the scones and they were delicious and moist. They are small but filling. Just love your recipes! Thank you so much for hard work and experimentation.

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  9. I absolutely love these scones – I used lemon zest and they tasted wonderful! The dough was sticky so shaping them was super tricky – but it was worth it in the end!

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    • Holly, if your dough is still sticky return it to the freezer until it’s easier to handle. Thanks for letting me know you love these scones!

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    • Tabby, I haven’t eaten gluten since 1998 when I was diagnosed with celiac disease so not sure how all purpose flour would work :-)

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  15. I just made these. They are very yummy! I was more in a lemon mood so made them with lemon zest. I also added 3 drops of Doterra lemon essential oil. I wanted to make sure the lemon flavor was strong. I rolled it out into a circle and cut it into 8 triangles. I cut the baking time back to 19 minutes.

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  16. these were yummy! i made 9 smaller/thinner ones, but next time i will make 6 thicker so i can cut in half to add more jam. :)

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  17. These scones are delicious! I changed the honey amount from 1/4 cup to 1/8 cup since I don’t like things to be too sweet, and they still turned out great–just sweet enough!

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  19. Thank you for all the goodies we can make because of all your hard work in making it possible for us to follow. Thank kyyou

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  20. These look fabulous. I have yet to try making grain-free scones, and the orange flavor here sounds like just the thing.

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  21. So appreciate all your efforts with developing/testing recipes for paleo and gluten-free. I would like to ask a favor — when printing your recipes, the pictures included switch to a larger version and causes more paper and toner use. I would appreciate if the picture could be a small version for the printing or be deleted if so desired. Hope this is not confusing. Thanks again.

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    • Also, Brenda, if you highlight the recipe and right-click on the selection, then click “Print…”, the recipe prints without any photo at all.

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    • Brenda, There is a free app called “Print Friendly” that installs to Internet Explorer. It generates a pdf document of a web page and you have the option of including or suppressing images. It gives you the page without the advertising and without the comments. I save the documents to my hard drive and print when necessary.

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  22. I completely agree with your sentiments towards Valentine’s Day. God created us to show love to one another every day!

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  23. My husband is obsessed with scones. I used to work in a bakery and we would do an egg wash on top and sprinkle some sugar… I’m definitely going to play around with this recipe. SO stoked.

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