Pumpkin scones are the perfect fall treat to enjoy on a nice, slightly chilly fall morning before doing all the fall things like picking apples or hay rides… or just eating while wearing sweatpants and being antisocial and scrolling through Instagram waiting for your coffee to kick in.
There’s no judgment or right or wrong way to enjoy fall. Pumpkin scones, in my opinion, are one of the better fall baked goods. I’m not an overly pumpkin spice person and personally hate PSL, but I do like a nice subtly spiced pumpkin baked-good like these pumpkin scones.
Your whole family will love these healthy pumpkin scones
When PSL season rolls out at Starbucks, I do instantly get excited and buy one of their scones. I love how their scones are soft and cakey; I don’t, however, love that their scones are 500 calories, 23g of fat, and TWENTY TWO POINTS. I mean, they are really good though. Fact: you can have three of these pumpkin scones and still have less points than eating one of theirs (and mine is better).
Weight Watchers Friendly Scones
These pumpkin scones are similar to my Blueberry Scones. You’ll be using a dry bowl and wet bowl for this just like before. In the dry bowl, you’ll mix your self rising flour, baking powder, butter, zest (orange this time), sugar (brown sugar now).
You’ll add a full tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice to this mix too. The wet bowl is similar, but slightly different. In the wet bowl, you’ll add pumpkin, egg, vanilla, and Greek yogurt.
Make a well in the flour mixture and pour the wet mix into the dry. Mix until incorporated and dump onto a floured cutting board. Just like before, you’ll pat this down into a 9-inch disc and cut into 8 equal pieces.
Now, if you are familiar with my blueberry scone recipe, you’ll see this is slightly wetter than my other recipe (although firm enough to transfer--just slightly more delicate than before). Transfer to a parchment paper-covered baking sheet (or one that’s been sprayed with cooking spray) and chill for 15 minutes.
Science break
Why refrigerate the scones? Like my biscuits, these scones get their rise from the butter creating steam. Without really cold butter, these biscuits will remain flat. Now, my biscuits also get their rise from the folding process, but that’s not necessary here.
What does the additional pumpkin do? Pumpkin is a great vegan replacement for eggs in baking (as long as you like the flavor). You’ll see a lot of recipes floating around that swap a traditional egg for pumpkin. We are still adding an egg to help bind the dough, but this does help make these pumpkin scones rise.
Finishing the scones
Give your pumpkin scones about 2 inches of room on the pan because they will expand a little. Brush the tops of the scones with some milk or give them a spritz of cooking spray and bake at 400 for 20 minutes. I cool mine on a rack and then add the glaze.=
Typically I say a glaze is optional because I love sprinkling turbinado sugar on my scones. These pumpkin scones, however, feel incomplete without a glaze--I blame Starbucks for conditioning me to that. I think the sweetness balances the spice of the pumpkin spice nicely.
If you are not doing WW, feel free to double the glaze and dip the scones directly in it. I combined a little powdered sugar with a little more than a tbsp of milk and used a fork to drizzle the glaze on these.
It is important to note that the scones need to be fully cooled so the glaze doesn’t melt off or into the scones. You want that fancy glazed look.
Healthy Pumpkin Scones
These warm, cakey scones are the perfect treat for crisp, fall mornings. With these ingredients available year round, who is to say we can’t enjoy these all year? Drizzled with a powdered sugar glaze, they are a sweet treat your whole family will love.
187 calories
Blue & Purple WW - 6 SP
Green WW - 7 SP
Ingredients
- 2 cups self rising flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup non-fat Greek yogurt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 orange zested
- 1/4 c powdered sugar
- 2-4 tsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and pumpkin pie spice. Stir in butter and orange zest and incorporate the butter into the flour mixture.
- In a separate bowl, mix yogurt, egg, pumpkin, and vanilla.
- Make a well in the dry bowl, and pour the wet mixture into the middle. Use a rubber spatula to mix the ingredients together. Try to mix just enough to fully incorporate and not over mix.
- Once the ingredients are mixed and shaggy, dump out the dough onto a lightly floured cutting board, and shape into a disk. The dough should be roughly 1 inch high and 9 inches wide.
- Cut the dough into 8 equal triangles. Place triangles about 2 inches apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or sprayed with cooking spray). Give the tops a spritz of cooking spray for safe measure.
- Refrigerate scones until the oven is preheated.Bake for 20-25 minutes at 400° until the tops are golden.
- Allow scones to cool completely. Mix powdered sugar and milk to make the glaze. Drizzle over scones using a fork.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1 sconeAmount Per Serving: Calories: 187Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 538mgCarbohydrates: 33gFiber: 1gSugar: 10gProtein: 5g
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Weight Watchers Friendly Fall Recipes
Zuppa Toscana soup, when made at home, is a delicious low in point soup that will make Olive Garden a thing of the past. Lightened up with homemade turkey sausage, this soup is so low in points and calories, you'll be able to have all the unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks your heart desires.
Green & Blue - 3 SP
Purple - 1 SP
Diane
Love all your recipes
Mandee
These are amazing! Made these this morning and your biscuits. I also made your chili last night for friends and got rave reviews! Thank you for all of your yummy recipes. My fiance will actually eat with me now too! He also approves 🙂
Just an FYI- eggs aren't in the ingredient list but in the directions so I went off your blueberry scone recipe and added one.
Lynn
Loved the recipe. Made them and posted on Insta! I would somewhere mention to bakers that aren't familiar with scone making, to keep their butter cold and cut it into the dry mixture. I don't think it mentioned that.
They were delicious AND 6 points!!!
Thank you!