These easy vegan scones with peaches and strawberries drizzled with vegan white chocolate make the perfect breakfast, snack, or even an afternoon tea treat!

This vegan scone recipe uses the traditional biscuit method where cold vegan butter is cut into the dry ingredients to create layers of fluffy buttery goodness once baked. Read on to learn more!

Four scones with white chocolate drizzle

Ingredients rundown

For the dry ingredients, we have all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and granulated sugar. Vegan butter is then cut into the dry mixture and non dairy milk is mixed in to bind the dough.

The mix-ins are fresh peaches (I recommend using yellow peaches) and fresh strawberries. If it’s not fruit season, you may use frozen fruit thawed and diced.

Just for that extra boost of flavour and look, we’ll be melting together vegan white chocolate chips and coconut oil to drizzle on top of the scones once they’re cooled.

Ingredients for strawberry peach scones and white chocolate drizzle

Steps for making scones

Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Add the cold butter and use a pastry blender or two forks to cut the butter into the dry mix. I’ve also heard that using a food processor to pulse the mixture works as well. The texture of the mixture should resemble coarse granola.

Gradually add your non dairy milk while mixing the mixture with your fork. You don’t want the dough to be too wet, so adjust the amount of milk accordingly. Sometimes the moisture in the air will affect how much milk you need!

Without having mixed the dough too much, add the diced strawberries and chocolate chips. Try to distribute the mix-ins into the dough as evenly as possible.

strawberries and peaches added tov the dough

rough ball of dough formed with strawberries and peaches added

Knead the dough inside the bowl a couple of times until you are able to pick up one loose ball of dough. Transfer the dough to a clean and floured surface. If the dough is quite moist, don’t be afraid to add more flour to the surface and your hands.

If you’re making 6 large scones: form the dough into one thick disk about 6inches in diameter.

If you’re making 8 smaller scones: divide the dough into two and form two separate disks about 4inches each.

Using a pastry knife, slice your dough disk into 6 pieces, OR slice each 4 inch dough disk into 4 pieces each. You can dust the pastry knife with flour prior to cutting to prevent it from sticking to the dough.

8 pieces of scones on the floured surface

Transfer the scones to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Be sure to leave at least 1 inch of space between each scone, as they will rise and expand when baked.

If you want the scones to come out with nice and golden tops, brush each scone with some non dairy milk

Unbaked scones on a baking tray with non dairy milk brushed on top

closeup of unbaked scones on baking sheet

Bake the scones for 25-30mins. Allow the scones to cool completely before drizzling on the melted white chocolate chips.

What counts as a successful scone?

When baked, the scones are leaven and not spread
Lightly golden and crispy on the outside and fluffy with flakey layers on the inside
The fruits are not burst or fallen out of the scone

drizzling white chocolate drizzle on a scone

Tips for making soft and flakey scones

Make sure the butter is refrigerator cold. It is easier to cut into the dry ingredients, and it’ll melt when baked to create layers of goodness inside the scone.
Don’t worry about cutting the butter into perfect little pea-sized pieces. As long as there are not excessively large chunks of butter in the dry mix, you’ll be good to go.
Speaking of large chunks of butter, you also don’t want to over-cut the butterotherwise the scones will come out very flat and dense.
Don’t over mix/ over knead the batter. The key to fluffy and airy scones is allowing as much air and volume in the batter as possible. As soon as you have kneaded the dough into a workable disk, leave it be, lumps and all.
To get the flakey golden top, I highly recommend brushing some non dairy milk on top the scones before you put them in the oven! You can use a pastry brush, or gently spread the milk with a spoon.

Stack of three scones with one scone showing the texture inside

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