Vanilla Bean Cardamom Scones

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 cups Flour
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom
• 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 1 cup cold Butter

  two sticks
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 large Vanilla Bean

  split down the center
• 1 Egg
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tblsp half and half or milk
• 1/8 tsp vanilla bean paste

  just a pinch for visual effect

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• 3 Measure half and half into small saucepan, add split vanilla bean to cream, heat
  until just beginning to bubble on edge, do not boil. Turn off heat and set aside
  to cool. When cream is cool, take a sharp knife and scrape the inside of the
  vanilla bean out and add back to liquid.
• 4 Cut cold butter into small squares, add to dry ingredients, and cut in with a
  pastry cutter until mixture resembles oatmeal. Set aside.
• 5 Whisk egg and vanilla extract into vanilla bean cream.
• 6 Create a hole in the middle of the dry ingredients, add liquid to hole, gently
  combine until dough comes together.
• 7 Place dough onto a lightly floured surface, split in half and create two rounds
  about 1 inches thick and 8-10 inches in diameter. Place dough on a parchment
  lines baking sheet and place in freezer for 10 minutes.
• 8 Remove from freezer and cut each disk like a pie, 6 pieces each. Place in
  preheated 350 oven for 25 minutes.

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