birthday cake scones
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the best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker
birthday cake scones complete with glaze and sprinkles a’plenty for days when cake for breakfast seems the only thing to make sense.
i remember the days when lack of sleep from a newborn felt hard. then, i remember the days when i thought i was never going to get through three year old tantrums. or potty training. or bedtime.
then, i became the mother of teens.
most of the time i am completely and utterly proud and humbled by the wonderful humans they are becoming. i love hearing about their hopes and dreams for the future, talking about school and friends and what courses they may be interested in for next year.
but man, when it’s hard it is so very hard. i understand that they are caught somewhere in the middle of being a kid and being an adult. they want to be treated like adults, but many times still act like children. we treat them like children and hope they begin to act like adults. it’s exhausting.
last week was a very bad week in the kinnaird house. there was hurt, and anger, and frustration, and wine, much wine, for the adults in the house.
this week we are starting fresh with new attitudes, and when all else fails a breakfast of birthday cake scones with glaze and sprinkles. it’s impossible to be grumpy when waking up to sprinkles.
glazed birthday cake scones
birthday cake scones
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 1/4 cup sugar, plus a bit for sprinkling on the tops
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) of cold butter, cubed
- 1 cup milk, i use whole, plus a bit for brushing the tops
- 2 tsp Clear Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Almond Extract
- 1/2 tsp Butter Flavor
(optional, but i think it adds to the birthday cake flavor)
- 1/2 cup sprinkles, plus more for topping
- for the glaze -
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 Tbsp milk
- 1/4 tsp clear vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp almond exract
(optional, but i think it adds to the birthday cake flavor)Directions:
- preheat oven to 375 degrees
- line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- in a large bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt
- using a pastry cutter or two forks, cut in the butter until your mixture in crumbly and you have small bits of butter evenly distributed throughout
- make a well in the center and add the milk and and extracts
- stir until your dough forms and then gently fold in the sprinkles
- on a well floured surface, knead dough to form a ball, and then flatten into a disc about an inch thick
- cut into 8 wedges, then place them on the prepared baking sheet
- brush the tops with milk and sprinkle with sugar
- bake 30 minutes
- allow to cool before glazing
- to make the glaze whisk together the sugar, milk, and extract until smooth, then drizzle and garnish with sprinkles
this scone recipe comes from bake from scratch, the same magazine as this birthday cake bread. it is by far one of my favorite baking magazines. i’ve yet to find a recipe i didn’t love.
for both the birthday cake bread and birthday cake scones i used a combination of rainbow nonpareils 
if you find these birthday cake scones too sweet for your morning coffee, you could skip the glaze and second dose of sprinkles. but why would you want to do that?
enjoy!
more scones to love
I am making these ASAP.
hope you enjoy them as much as we do
Jimmies! Never heard that phrase until I lived on the East Coast. Such a cheerful name. These scones are so fun!
that’s all i called them until moving west 🙂 thanks so much
Who doesnt want cake for breakfast?!? Sprinkles were always my fav growing up!
i know right ? 🙂 we love them too
These look amazing! Can I double the recipe? Also, how do you think these would freeze? I want to make a bunch of mini scones for a birthday breakfast next week!
this recipe could easily be doubled, and they should freeze well – just make sure they are completely cooled, then i would wrap in plastic and place in a zip top freezer bag
Do you think I can make these and then freeze them? Then thaw and bale?
if planning to freeze, i would bake then first then thaw and warm
Your Birthday cake scones caught my eye this morning but i really loved your blog and sent a portion to my adult daughters who are dealing with their teenage kids. As I watch it makes me smile if I’m not laughing my head off (it’s so nice being the grandmother) Here is the quote I sent to them
“they want to be treated like adults, but many times still act like children. we treat them like children and hope they begin to act like adults. it’s exhausting.”
Do you think I could make these with a milk alternative like soy milk?
absolutely
I have never seen clear vanilla extract. Is it ok to use regular vanilla extract?
you can, but the taste is a bit different
this is so tasty and easy thank you
They tasted pretty good however my teenagers didn’t like the almond extract flavour so next time I will leave it out as well I didn’t add the butter flavour which I think you really need in order to add that birthday cake flavour
This look so good! I love that it is a birthday breakfast that can be made ahead of time!
thank you so much
Thanks for sharing! Do they keep long?
scones tend to dry out after a day or two, I would freeze them if you need them fresh longer