Tender Red Velvet Scones with a cream cheese glaze are just the thing to go with your coffee during the holiday season. Not only are the delicious, the red and white makes them look ultra festive.

Scones are one of my very favorite things to bake and I don’t think they get nearly the attention they deserve. If you haven’t tried making homemade scones, you are missing out. Warm from the oven, they are so tender, delicate, and rich. Every home baker should fall in love with baking scones.

Perfect For Christmas

Around the holidays, I get in the mood for all things red velvet. With a deep red color, these Red Velvet Scones are perfect for the Christmas season. Or Valentine’s Day.

A little cocoa powder gives the scones that characteristic red velvet flavor. These scones are only lightly sweetened and I didn’t add much sugar to the cream cheese glaze either because I wanted the scones to have some tang. Red Velvet usually gets a little tang from buttermilk, but I’m a stickler for using heavy cream in scones, so I didn’t use any buttermilk.
If you want them sweeter, just sprinkle them with sugar right before popping them in the oven or right after. It really doesn’t matter.

Recipe Tips

Make sure you mix the food coloring in with the liquid ingredients before adding them to the dry ingredients or you’ll never get it mixed into the dough evenly. And with scones, like biscuits, you want to handle the dough a...