Recipe: Easy Three Ingredient Gluten Free Scones (Vegan Option!)

I'm a bit of a lazy cook. 

You see, whilst I loveee cooking and baking and creating - I run for the hills at the mention of any kind of dough. 

It's sticky and messy and time consuming and usually I'm so fed up with the dough that I don't even want to eat the end result.

So scones? They NEVER happened.

I'd tried making them a few times with no real success - until a beautiful lady at church told me her secret; cream - and forgetting all about perfection and just aiming for taste.

I returned home from church one Sunday on a mission... I was going to make scones...

But whilst I had cream, I didn't have the lemonade she mentioned - and I wasn't about to go out and buy some.. so I decided I'd experiment.

I filled a bottle of water, fizzed it in my soda stream and decided to try my luck with soda water sugar free scones instead.

And whilst I was cursing the stickiness, I persevered and made THE BEST gluten free scones.

We're talking soft.
We're talking fluffy.
We're talking country women's association material.

And now I can't get enough.

So let me share this STUPIDLY simple recipe with you >>

Recipe: Healthy Buttermilk Scones Recipe

Psst: It's Australia Week on Southern In-Law! 

Check out the other recipes: Healthy Cheesymite Scrolls//Healthy Chocolate Crackle Slice (AKA: Lamington Rice Crispy Treats)//Low Fat ANZAC Biscuits//Lightened Up Lamington Cupcakes

Scones - generally speaking, they're not thought of as a healthy option, right? Neither are Southern style biscuits. If you've read Southern In-Law, you'd know that I love creating healthier versions of classic recipes - so naturally, I wanted to create a Healthy Buttermilk Scones Recipe (Jesse wants you to know he thinks these are actually Healthy Buttermilk Biscuits) for Australia Week.

I wanted to take something that is traditionally loaded with butter or cream and lighten it up - to SILify it, as we say in our house :P
What I managed to come up with is a totally scrum-diddly-umptious recipe that has totally made me a scone lover (especially when you add dates!) 

Now, granted these aren't the biggest and fluffiest scones in the world and they almost didn't make the blog - but when you create a batch of low fat, low sugar, gluten free scones that manages to disappear in just 2 hours, you kind of get the impression that it's a recipe worth sharing.

You can make them taller and fluffier, simply by shaping them differently and making a smaller batch from the dough.

I didn't use a scone cutter as I was too lazy to look for one so I simply shaped these with my hands - so don't think you need to go out and buy anything special to make this recipe.

Let's get onto the recipe >>