09/15/2025
6th up on banana week we have banana cream scones with a cinnamon cream cheese glaze to finish it off. It is soft, sweet, and savory that balances the flavors and it together nicely.
Recipe posted below
Banana cream scones
3 ½ cups All-purpose flour
½ tsp Salt
1 TBSP Baking powder
¼ tsp Baking soda
2 tsp Ground cinnamon
¼ tsp Ground nutmeg
½ cup Brown sugar, packed light or dark
½ cup Unsalted butter, cold and cubed
2 Bananas, ripe and mashed
¾ cup Heavy cream
2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
1 Large egg, lightly beaten.
2 TBSP Heavy cream, cold
granulated sugar, for the tops of the scones.
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Glaze
2 oz Cream cheese, room temperature
⅓ cup Powdered sugar
¾ tsp Ground cinnamon
▢2 TBSP Milk
▢1 tsp Pure vanilla extract
Instructions
Cinnamon Banana Scones
1. In a large bowl, sift together flour. Whisk in salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar.
3 ½ cups All-purpose flour, ½ tsp Salt,1 TBSP Baking powder, ¼ tsp Baking soda,2 tsp Ground cinnamon, ¼ tsp Ground nutmeg, ½ cup Brown sugar
2. In a small bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork. Freeze butter until cold.
½ cup Unsalted butter, 2 ripe Bananas
3. Take the cold butter out of the freezer and use a cheese grater and grade it into the dry ingredients. Take your pastry cutter and cut until it come to a pea size pieces.
4. In a medium size bowl combine egg, vanilla extract, heavy cream and mashed bananas.
2 ripe bananas, ¾ cup heavy cream, 2 tsp vanilla extract, 1 large egg
5. Pour the mashed bananas, lightly beaten egg, vanilla, and heavy cream into the butter/dry ingredient bowl. Use a rubber spatula and fold the wet into the dry. Switch to your hands to knead until combined. There will be some dry ingredients bits left at the bottom of the bowl. Do this until combined, but don't over knead.
6. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Pour the dough onto the cookie sheet. Mold it with your hands into a 7 inch diameter circle.
7. It should be very thick. Cut the dough into 8 triangles. Separate the triangles so they have some space between each other. See picture in post. Freeze for 20 minutes.
8. Preheat oven to 375°F. Use a pastry brush and brush the heavy cream on top of the scones. Sprinkle sugar on top.
2 TBSP Heavy cream,White granulated sugar
9. Bake for 25-28 minutes. Once the scones are finished baking when the edges are golden brown. Let them cool for 15 minutes on the cookie sheet before preparing the glaze.
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Glaze
1. In a small bowl, use a hand mixer and beat the cream cheese on medium-high for 1 minute. There should be no chunks of cream cheese. Add in the powdered sugar and beat on high for 1-2 minutes until everything is combined and smooth.
2 oz Cream cheese, ⅓ cup Powdered sugar
2. Add in the milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Mix on medium until everything is smooth and combined.
¾ tsp Ground cinnamon, 2 TBSP Milk,1 tsp Pure vanilla extract
3. Use a spoon to top the scones with the glaze.