Today I have a summery breakfast recipe for you, some light and fluffy lemon and poppy seed ricotta scones with strawberry sauce! These scones could not be easier to make, you simply pulse the dry ingredients with the butter, mix in the wet ingredients, form a dough and bake until perfectly golden brown and good! All said and done these scones take less than 20 minutes to make so you can even make them on busy weekday morning, but weekend brunches are also fantastic! The ricotta cheese helps keep these scones nice and moist and the lemon juice and zest makes the so fresh and bright and summery! To add even more of that summer touch, I like to serve these scones topped with a fresh homemade strawberry sauce!
Lemon Poppy Seed Ricotta Scones with Strawberry Sauce
Light, fluffy and summery fresh lemon and ricotta scones with poppy seeds and a zingy lemon glaze!
ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cold, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1/2 cup ricotta
- 1 lemon (zest and juice)
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup powdered/confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
For the scones:
For the lemon glaze:
directions
- Pulse the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and butter in a food processor until little grainy pellets are formed.
- Mix in the poppy seeds, ricotta, lemon juice and zest along with the egg until a ad dough is formed.
- Form the dough into the desired shapes, place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated 375F/190C oven until lightly golden brown, about 10-15 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool and drizzling with the lemon glaze.
- Mix the lemon juice and powdered sugar until a smooth glaze is formed.
For the scones:
For the lemon glaze:
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OK!!! I love this recipe, but I just need to know how you made your strawberry sauce?
I love everything with strawberry. These scones with strawberry sauce look so tempting. OMG, I need some right now.
These scones look delicious!
I love scones and these flavors sound incredible!
These scones look heavenly!
I love a good scone like this! Delicious
When do you add the ricotta?
The scones look really good. Unfortunately, due to a simple failure to proof read the recipe and directions, some less experienced cooks will find it difficult if not impossible to follow the directions due to errors in the instructions. You have a lot of good recipes, but I have noticed errors fairly often and thought I might bring it to your attention. I would hate to see current readers cancel or potential readers skip your blog because of simple errors that you could so easily correct.
I sincerely wish you the very best!
I've read and re-read this recipe and I can't figure out where to add the ricotta?
Jen: Add the ricotta in step two with the poppy seeds. Enjoy!
Could I use cottage cheese instead of ricotta
Yes you can! Enjoy!
Looking forward to making these! How long do you think they’ll keep? Best covered and at room temp?
These are best when freshly baked, otherwise I would finish them in 2-3 days at room temperature or 3-5 days in the fridge. Enjoy!