Healthy Pumpkin Scones (2024)

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.

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