My eyes are burning with fatigue, but my mind decides to bake something. Baking requires focus, accuracy, and it distracts me from the dream I had. I reattempt a failed recipe from the week before; a pumpkin scone. The truth is, I have never liked scones and I questioned why I bothered to make them in the first place. This kind of negative thinking only makes me grumpier than I already am and I put it out of my mind to focus.

As I measure out the ingredients, whisking the flours together, and testing out the spice ratio, I see more apartment lights flicker on. The sky is pale but the light coming in is a bit warmer. I put the scones in the oven and hope for the best. Barb comes into the kitchen, stretches her legs behind her, and purrs at my feet. In the mornings, she sucks up to me so I will get up and feed her. When her affection doesn’t work right away, she resorts to more aggressive tactics, which includes “brushing” my hair with her claws.

The apartment fills up with a spicy aroma and I feel much better when I take the scones out of the oven. They look perfect, a refined rustic appearance. I make myself some tea to distract myself from eating them straight off the pan. As the kettle boils, I step outside onto my balcony and breathe in the cool air. The sun is up and I can see people on the street with layers of sweaters and scarves walk toward the subway. The city wakes up and I can hear some construction workers start up their gear for the day’s work.

I whip up the glaze, adding a pinch of spice with each taste. I spoon the glaze on each scone and top with nuts. They are exactly what I wanted them to taste like; delicate, tender, and rich with spice.

I feel dizzy with sleepiness and head back to bed, my tea left undrunk. I pile the blankets on top of me and I fall asleep immediately. Maybe the scones were keeping me awake. 

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This recipe is adapted from The Faux Martha’s Pumpkin Scones.

Vegan & GF Pumpkin Walnut Scones

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

15 mins

Total time

35 mins

 

These scones are tender, sweet, topped with a spiced glaze and toasted walnuts. These are not health scones. These are the type of scones you hope to get in a coffee shop, served with a huge mug of steamy latte and a good book. Vegan, gluten free, and soy free. Best served the day of baking, but unglazed scones can be frozen for later eats.

Author: Jessica DeMarra

Recipe type: Dessert, Breakfast

Cuisine: Vegan, Gluten Free

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon ground flax seed + 3 tablespoons warm water
• ½ cup canned pumpkin puree
• 5 tablespoons full-fat coconut milk (shake the can well before measuring)
• 1½ cups Bob Mill's 1:1 GF Flour Blend*
• ½ cup GF oat flour
• ⅓ cup organic cane sugar
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed
• 1 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin spice (I used The Kitchn's recipe for Pumpkin Pie Spice)
• ½ tsp. sea salt
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• Pumpkin Glaze
• 1 tablespoon canned pumpkin puree
• 1-2 tablespoons full-fat coconut milk
• ¼ teaspoon pumpkin spice
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• ¼ cup toasted walnut pieces

Instructions

1. On a small piece of parchment paper on a plate, measure out 6 tablespoons of solid coconut oil. Place in the refrigerator until very solid. In the meantime, mix the flax and water together in a small bowl to gel and set aside.
2. In a bowl or measuring cup, mix the canned pumpkin and coconut milk together. Once the flax had gelled, whisk it the mixture into the pumpkin and coconut milk. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, pumpkin spice, sugars, and salt together.
4. Remove the coconut oil from the fridge, it should be very firm, and cut into small pieces.
5. With a pastry cutter, cut the coconut oil into the flour mixture until only pea-sized solids of the coconut oil remain.
6. Create a well in the centre of the flour mixture. Add the pumpkin/coconut milk mixture and stir until just combined. Overworking the dough melts the coconut oil too fast and will result in a tough, dense scone.
7. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place dough on the baking sheet and form into a 6" square. Using a pastry bench or sharp chef's knife, cut the dough into 8 even pieces. With the bench scraper or a wide spatula, loosen from the bottom and space out the scones onto the baking sheet.
8. Place the sheet in freezer and preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
9. Once preheated, remove scones from freezer and bake for 15 minutes.
10. Meanwhile, make the glaze.
11. Clean out the large bowl you used for the scone dough. Whisk together the coconut milk, pumpkin, and spices together. Sift in the powdered sugar and whisk until no lumps remain. Set aside.
12. Once the scones are done baking, let them cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet and then transfer to a wire baking rack to cool completely.
13. Once the scones are completely cooled, spoon on the glaze and sprinkle with toasted walnut pieces.

Notes

*Or another GF flour blend with xantham gum

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 1 glazed scone Calories: 321 Fat: 13.9g Carbohydrates: 46.8g Sugar: 21.6g Sodium: 286.9mg Fiber: 2g Protein: 4.2g

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Halfway there! It is kind of crazy how time flies by when you are having fun or when you are stressed out about deadlines for posts but for this first time MoFo’er it has been such a great experience. I am not sick of my kitchen just yet so it is full steam ahead in the second part of this month.

This recipe is inspired by my mother and her love for old black-and-white movies. When my sister and I were growing up, we did not have cable, just the old rabbit ears with tinfoil balls on their ends so we did not watch a lot of TV. My mother only enjoyed a select few cartoons like Animaniacs or Bugs Bunny (which I know them now to be incredibly violent!) so needless to say we did not watch a lot of kid-shows either. During my teen years when all my friends were obsessed with Dawson’s Creek, Friends and Passions (yes the soap opera) however my mother had no patience for 90’s teen TV characters complaining about how everything was just so tragic. “I will show you real tragedy,” she would say as you popped in a VHS tape. So I spent most Friday nights watching Gregory Peck in the Maycomb courtroom defending a wrongly accused man while Jem and Scout watched from the balcony, Audrey Hepburn in her trench coat, soaked and looking for Cat in the rain and of course Humphrey Bogart saying goodbye to his true love all for the greater good but meeting a friend along the way.

How I love Ilsa Lund’s (Ingrid Bergman) jewelry sparkling softly in the low lighting, the way she sipped champagne so elegantly, her large brimmed hats and her amazing capability to keep a white suit stain-free and glowing.

Rick’s Café Américain is what I thought every nightclub was like: large bandstand with talented musicians in white dinner jackets, a piano player playing beautiful love songs, fancy hats and gambling underground until I actually went to one and upon arrival some pimple-faced kid barfed near me, spattering it across my shoes. That place was no Rick’s.

Casablanca is still my favourite old movie as well my mothers. I imagine Morocco’s air to be full of warm spices, gin joints to get a stiff drink and having a grand but tragic romance with my true love. But in the meantime, I will just enjoy these Moroccan Spiced recipes with a drink in hand.

 10 recipes down, 10 more to go! Woot!

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