Orange Almond Biscones – marriage between a biscuit and a scone

What happens when you imagine a flaky orange cookie, set about making it and end up with a combination of biscuit and scone ? You name it bis-scone 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nonetheless the end product was extremely delicious! I immediately made notes and decided to share it. It also proves that accidents can sometimes be serendipitous. This time I got lucky and the biscones were gone in a few days. We ate them for breakfast daily ….. several of them too !! 

Started off with regular flour and baking soda combination. Added a handful of slivered almonds. Next for the wet ingredients, started off with some softened butter. Keep in mind I typically use butter only for my very special LAAA LAAA Chocolate chip cookies. Since I was dreaming of a flaky cookie, I indulged and decided to add butter. Then I added my usual sweetener – maple syrup. Now comes the key ingredient which was the whole reason to start on this baking adventure – mango orange puree. I wanted to use this and make an orange cookie. So added in a cup of the paste to the wet ingredients. Then combined the wet and dry, made small balls and baked. It spread out into gorgeous fluffy beauties. Added a sprinkling of orange extract and the whole house smelled very citrusy ….try this in Spring season and keep the windows open … bake this while hearing the birds chirp… enjoy the orange smell wafting through the crisp air. 

Although these biscones were absolutely scrumptious and I will be making more batches soon, I am sure I will hit upon the correct combination for flaky orange cookies and will be posting that very soon!

Meanwhile, do enjoy the lovely and very flavorful biscones 🙂 

Orange Almond biscones recipe

Ingredients –

Dry Ingredients – 

• Whole Wheat flour  1 cup
• Slivered almonds 1/2 cup 
• Baking Soda 1/2 tsp 
• Salt (a pinch) 

Wet Ingredients – 

• Butter cut into small cubes and thawed to room temperature  ½ stick 
• Maple syrup ½ cup 
• Orange extract ½ tsp 

Procedure –

1. Mix all the dry ingredients and keep aside 
2. Mix the butter with the maple syrup and cream well, it will become lightly frothy, add orange extract
3. Add the dry mixture to wet and combine well 
4. Take a cookie sheet and line with parchment paper 
5. Make small balls and place on the cookie sheet
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes 
7. Turn off oven and let sit for 3-5 minutes until bottom of bis-scones are lightly browned

Serve warm. Can be kept on kitchen countertop for 3 days or stored in refrigerator for up to a week. 

Orange Almond biscones recipe card

Dry Ingredients -
Whole Wheat flour  1 cup
Slivered almonds 1/2 cup
Baking Soda 1/2 tsp
Salt (a pinch)

Wet Ingredients -
Butter cut into small cubes  ½ stick
(thawed to room temp.) 
Maple syrup ½ cup
Orange extract ½ tsp