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.
Orange Poppy Seed Scones
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
Instructions
- In a food processor combine almond flour, salt, and baking soda
- Pulse in honey, eggs, and orange zest
- Very briefly pulse in poppy seeds
- Roll out dough to ½-inch thick between 2 pieces of parchment paper
- Chill dough in freezer for 15 minutes
- Using a heart shaped cookie cutter, cut hearts out of dough
- Transfer to a parchment paper lined baking sheet
- Bake at 350°F for 12-17 minutes
- Cool for 30 minutes
- Serve
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:
joseph muita says
These look really fabulous…Thanks for sharing.
Elana says
Thanks Joseph!
Laura Harmasch says
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.
Elana says
Laura, I’m so happy to hear these scones are very yummy!
angela says
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. :)
Elana says
Angela, thanks for letting me know these were yummy!
Tam says
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!
Elana says
Tam, thanks for letting me know these scones turned out great!
chloebrotheridge1 says
These are so cute. I Love almond flour. Thanks Elena x
Elana says
Chloe, you’re welcome!
BEV says
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
Elana says
Bev, you’re very welcome!
Becky Winkler says
These look fabulous. I have yet to try making grain-free scones, and the orange flavor here sounds like just the thing.
Elana says
Thanks Becky!
Brenda in Oklahoma says
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.
Krp Diem says
Have you tried copying/pasting the recipe in an email & printing it that way to save on paper/toner/ink?
Juanima says
Also, Brenda, if you highlight the recipe and right-click on the selection, then click “Print…”, the recipe prints without any photo at all.
Bob Snitchler says
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.
Amy says
I completely agree with your sentiments towards Valentine’s Day. God created us to show love to one another every day!
Elana says
Amy, well said!
meg says
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.
Elana says
Thanks Meg!