These Gluten-Free Vegan Maple Pecan Scones are tender on the inside with a crunchy, golden crust! Sweetened with a bit of maple syrup and studded with toasted pecans, these scones are delicious for breakfast, brunch, or as a mid-day snack. Thanks to Bob’s Red Mill for sponsoring this post.

These Gluten-Free Vegan Maple Pecan Scones are tender on the inside with a crunchy, golden crust! Sweetened with a bit of maple syrup and studded with toasted pecans, these scones are delicious for breakfast, brunch, or as a mid-day snack.

Alright y’all – I think I have a new obsession with SCONES. I started with these Chocolate Chip Scones last week and now I’m insatiable. I want to make ALL the flavors, add all the mix-ins, and then snack on them all. day. long.

I figured out a way to make the scones without gluten, dairy, or refined sugars…which if you know scones, is pretty much all they’re made of. Typically, you make scones from by cutting butter into a flour-sugar mixture and then adding heavy cream and eggs. Not exactly gluten-free and vegan.

But! After many tests, I figured it out, and you, my friend, don’t have to do all that work because I did it for ya. The result is (I’d say) just as delicious as the flaky scones you remember. OR, maybe you’re one of the unlucky people who always had dry, crumbly, tasteless scones, in which case, you are in for a TREAT.

A note about Scones:

Be mindful – these Maple Pecan Scones are Americanized scones. British scones, which are the “OG” scone, are traditionally small, not too sweet, on the crumbly side, and usually, they don’t have any mix-ins. These are the scones you’ll see served with tea at a British High Tea, and they’re delicious.

These Maple Pecan Scones are big boys, with mix-ins, a softer texture, and a sweeter flavor. They’re both great in their own right, but I wanted to clarify in case you’re looking for a British version :D

How to make Maple Pecan Scones

One of the main tricks to making gluten-free & grain-free baked goods taste as good as their gluten-filled counterparts is using the right flours. For this, I always turn to Bob’s Red Mill. In this recipe, I use a combination of their blanched almond flour and arrowroot flour for the perfect texture. The almond flour adds a rich, dense texture and the arrowroot flour brings a light crispness to the scones.

We also use baking powder, which helps add a light, fluffiness to the scones. We cut coconut oil into the dry ingredients, which creates small pockets of fat which will puff up in the oven and create the flaky, slightly crumbly texture that makes a good scone SO good. The bring it all together, we use canned coconut milk, maple syrup, and a flax egg. If you’re not vegan, a regular egg could be used as well.

Of course, we also mix in some toasted pecans before shaping the dough and letting it chill out in the fridge for an hour before baking it up.

TIP: I love brushing the top of the scones with a bit of extra coconut milk before they hit the oven, too. This helps them brown nicely and if you want to sprinkle some turbinado sugar on top for extra *sparkle*, it helps it stick!

When the scones come out the oven smelling like a DREAM you’re going to want to devour one warm. DON’T resist that urge. They’re so good warm. You could add vegan butter or maple butter, but you don’t have to. They’re good just as they are.