Healthy Cinnamon Apple Scones {Gluten-Free}
 
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Serves: 10-12
Ingredients
  • 1 cup old fashioned oats (Gluten-Free optional)
  • 1 cup oat flour (I use my Vitamix to grind oats into flour)
  • ¼ cup flax meal
  • ½ cup tapioca flour
  • 1 Tbsp chia seeds
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 3 Tbsp coconut oil (or butter)
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup almond milk (or milk alternative)
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar + 1 Tbsp
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 apple, cored, peeled and chopped
  • ¼ cup slivered almonds
  • Maple Cream, for frosting
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Mix old fashioned oats through nutmeg in a large bowl. Make a well in the center.
  3. In a separate small bowl, met coconut oil and add eggs (reserving 1 Tbsp egg white for topping), almond milk, ¼ cup coconut sugar, and vanilla in a bowl.
  4. Pour in well in dry ingredients and mix just until moistened.
  5. Fold in chopped apples and almonds.
  6. Cut dough into 10-12 pieces.
  7. Roll out and flatten into a rectangle about ½ inch -1 inch thick.
  8. Place on baking sheet and rub with egg wash and sprinkle with additional 1 Tbsp coconut oil and some cinnamon.
  9. Bake 20 minutes, let cool.
  10. Drizzle with maple cream.
  11. **To thin maple cream add 1 Tbsp milk to ¼ cup maple cream. Whisk and drizzle.
Recipe by Simple Roots at https://simplerootswellness.com/healthy-cinnamon-apple-scones-gluten-free/