Will you be spending your first Christmas as newlyweds at home? Wake up Christmas morning and make these delicious cherry scones together, or make them a few days prior. They’re festive and tasty!

How to Make Cherry Scones for Christmas Breakfast

• Makes: 8
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Bake Time: 15-18 minutes

Christmas Scone Ingredients

• 1 3⁄4 cup  + 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 cup frozen tart cherries (drained canned tart cherries will also work)
• 1/3 cup chilled butter
• 3 Tbsp white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1⁄2 tsp baking powder
• 1⁄2 tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp milk
• 3-4 Tbsp pistachios
• 1⁄2 cup white chocolate morsels

  

Holiday Scone Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400°
• Mix dry ingredients — flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt — in a medium size bowl.
• Cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until crumbly.

• Add egg and stir.
• Cut tart cherries in half and/or thirds.
• Toss in a bowl with 1 Tbsp flour. Doing so will help keep cherries from sinking to the bottom while baking.
• Add cherries to mix and fully incorporate them into the dough.
• Add milk, if needed, 1 Tbsp at a time, and knead the dough in the bowl 10 times or until it is no longer sticky.
• Place dough on ungreased cookie sheet and shape it into an 8” circle.
• Use a knife dipped in flour to cut the dough into 8 pie-slice style wedges. Do NOT separate the dough.

• Bake 15-18 minutes, but check them at 15 minutes.
• When the scones are done, remove and place them on a cooling rack.
• Melt white chocolate in the microwave. To thin the chocolate for drizzling, add 1 tsp of solid coconut oil or solid Crisco. Do not allow water to mix with white chocolate, or it will harden.
• Dice pistachios.

• Once the scones are cooled, drizzle chocolate over them and immediately sprinkle with pistachios.
• Serve and enjoy!
• Store in a covered container for 3-4 days, or freeze and thaw as needed.

Finished Cherry Pistachio Scones

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