Make ahead scone question

[SusanMac]

We are having a big family T-day brunch, and I've been asked to bring baked goods. I want to make cinnamon scones (the one floating around here w/cin chips). I want to do some prep ahead of time, but do think they will taste best straight from the oven.

I'm thinking of making the dough on Tuesday (before the road trip). Then actually bake them Thursday morning. Do you think this would work OK? Should I refrigerate the dough, or freeze it??

TIA to all you bakers!

[jessicacoy]

I make scones all the time! Whenever I make them I double or triple the batch and freeze the ones that we are not going to eat that day. (I make the scones, shape them, etc. and just freeze the "raw" dough) Then bake them from frozen....no need to defrost and they have turned out beautifully each time. I agree that they taste so much better straight from the oven than when they have sat around for a while.....

[Elisabeth13]

I think this would definitely work - I would probably freeze rather than refrigerate. I hope they go over well with your family - we really love those scones at my house! :)

[SusanMac]

Oh, that's great! Love the idea of shaping them first. I plan to make 'drop' style (I typically make a disk & cut pie-shaped triangles)

If they go straight from freezer to oven, how long does it typically take? (I'm assuming longer than the original recipe indicated) Maybe add 5 minutes?

[ljt2r]

I make scones all the time! Whenever I make them I double or triple the batch and freeze the ones that we are not going to eat that day. (I make the scones, shape them, etc. and just freeze the "raw" dough) Then bake them from frozen....no need to defrost and they have turned out beautifully each time. I agree that they taste so much better straight from the oven than when they have sat around for a while.....

I do this a lot also. Works beautifully. I do it for a lot of different recipes, but my scones are always around the same size, which comes out to 23 mins or so on 375 for me. I wouldn't just add 5 mins so much as go by smell and appearance.