Estes Scones de banana are easy 3-ingredient vegan banana bread scones. They are easy to make in menos do que 30 minutos, oil-free, and easy to customize by adding nuts, maple glaze, or chocolate chips.
The first recipes I shared on this blog were a vegan blueberry scone recipe and a vegan chocolate chip scone recipe. I am a big fan of scones, and since my husband is vegan, creating my own vegan scone recipe – meaning scones without eggs or butter was a must!
I love scones because they are such a good mix between a bread roll and a banana muffin for breakfast. The crumb is a bit flakey and buttery but still firm and crusty, like a bread roll.
I created these banana scones to use all my ripe bananas, and I thought adding some calcium and vegan yogurt to the dough would be a good idea instead of oil or vegan butter. I had great success with plant-based yogurt and flour in my 2-ingredient donuts recipe.
That’s why I choose these 3 simple ingredients in this banana scone recipe: self-rising flour, plant-based yogurt, and mashed banana. The result is fantastic, a soft, fluffy crumb and crusty outer layer. The best banana bread scones ever and ready in 30 minutes.
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Scones de banana
Ingredientes
- 3 ½ copos Farinha Auto-Crescente - + 1/4 cup to work the dough (note 1)
- 1⅓ xícara Banana amassada - a bit less than 3 large bananas (note 2)
- ⅔ xícara Iogurte vegetal com sabor de baunilha - + a bit more to brush on top of the scones (note 3)
Opcional
- ½ xícara Gotas de chocolate amargo sem lactose - or chopped pecans, walnuts
- 1 colher de chá Canela
- ¼ xícara Açúcar de cana não refinado
Instruções
- Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and slightly oil with cooking oil spray. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the banana and mash with a fork, or use the paddle attachment of a stand mixer.
- Pack the mashed bananas in a measuring cup to measure 1 cup + 1/3 cup of mashed bananas.
- Return the mashed banana to the mixing bowl, and add in yogurt and self-rising flour. If you pick some of the optional ingredients, add cinnamon and sugar now.
- Stir with a spoon at first, then flour your hands to knead the dough – or use the stand mixer's paddle attachment. The dough is sticky and crumbly. You need to squeeze and knead to form a dough. The dough will be rough, imperfect, and not smooth, and that's normal.
- If used, fold in chocolate chips or nuts now.
- Clean your hands if they are too messy, and lightly oil your hands with olive oil to prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers. I also oil the cookie cutter so it doesn't stick to the dough when I cut the scones.
- Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of flour on the work surface, and place the dough on it, sprinkle a bit more flour on top and using your hands, or a roller pin, press and flatten into a 0.8-inch thickness (2cm).
- Use the cookie cutter (about 3.5 inches / 8 cm in diameter) to press and cut out pieces of dough.
- Place the cut-out scones on the prepared baking sheet, leaving a thumb space between each. They expand a bit in the oven, but mostly in height, not width.
- Gather the pieces of leftover dough, press them together, and roll/flatten again to cut more scones out of it.
- Use a pastry brush to brush the top of each scone with yogurt.
- Bake the scones on the center rack of the oven for 15 to 17 minutes at 390°F (200°C) until the top is golden brown.
- Cool down on a cooling rack.
Notas
Nutrição
Ingredientes e Substituições

- Farinha Auto-Crescente – I like quick and easy baked goods, and having some homemade self-rising flour in your pantry is a must. Simply stir a cup of flour for 2 teaspoons of baking powder. You can also buy ready-made self-rising flour in the grocery store, it saves time.
- Plant-Based Vanilla Yogurt – I love my vanilla cashew Greek yogurt, but any kind of vanilla yogurt works in this recipe. You can pick a yogurt made from soy, oat, almond, or coconut. I like the sweetened vanilla flavor of the yogurt with the banana. It avoids adding vanilla extract or sugar to the dough.
- Bananas maduras – Go for a batch of ultra-ripe bananas with dark spots on their skin. This way, the flavors of the scones will be strong and sweet. My expert tip is to mash the banana with a fork, and pack in a measuring cup to measure exactly the amount called by the recipe (full measurement below). If you measure the mashed bananas precisely, you are sure you nail the dry-to-wet ratio of ingredients.
How To Make Banana Scones
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly oil the paper with a cooking oil spray. Set aside.
- Pré-aqueça o forno a 390 ° F (200 ° C).

- Peel and mash the bananas with a fork or in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment. Measure the amount called in the recipe below. This matters a lot because not all bananas are of the same size and if you add too much mashed banana, the scone dough will be too sticky. On the other hand, if you add less mashed banana, the dough won’t form – it will be dry and crumbly.

- Place the mashed bananas, yogurt, and self-rising flour in a large bowl and stir with a rubber spatula. Then, flour your hands and knead to bring the ingredients together, you can also work the dough in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment – it’s less messy and faster!

- The dough is ready when soft but not too sticky – it’s always a bit crumbly, unperfect and not smooth, and that’s what you want.

- Sprinkle flour on a work surface, place the dough in front of you, sprinkle more flour on top, and press with your hands to flatten the dough into about 2 cm/0.8 inches. Of course, you can use a roller pin to spread the dough, but I like that the top of the scones are imperfect and not smooth. That’s why I work the dough with nicely floured hands and no roller pin.

- Then, use a cookie cutter, or scone cutter, and press to cut out some scones.

- Place the scones on the prepared baking sheet, and using a pastry brush, brush the top with yogurt.
- Bake the scones for 15 to 17 minutes at 390°F (200°C) until golden brown on top.
- Let them cool at room temperature for 30 minutes on a cooling rack then enjoy!
Serviços extra
You can add some of the following ingredients in the dough, to add banana bread flavors:
- 1 colher de chá de canela em pó
- 1/4 colher de chá de noz-moscada
- 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans
- 1/2 cup of mini dark chocolate chips
- Uma pitada de sal
- Uma colher de chá de extrato de baunilha
Sugestões de veiculação
These scones are delicious cut in half and with some spread like:
- Vegan butter and jam
- Nut-butters – like almond butter, peanut butter, or cashew butter
- Caseiro geléia de bebê
- Caramelo de tâmara
- cobertura de coco
- chantilly vegano and jam
- Maple glaze – whisk 1/2 cup of icing sugar and 1-2 tablespoons of maple syrup and drizzle on top.

Perguntas frequentes
You can spread the entire dough into a large circle onto the prepared baking sheet. The dough thickness should be the same as for cut-out scones – thickness 0.8 inch/2 cm. Then, use a long sharp knife or pastry cutter to evenly divide the dough into wedges. Bake the scones as recommended in the recipe below.
You can stir in up to 1/4 cup of sugar, dark brown sugar, or coconut sugar. Add at the same time you add the self-rising flour.







can I have an alternative to yogurt?
You can probably use almond milk, but they will be dryer. Best will be silken tofu, blended into a smooth yogurt consistency.
my daughter and I made these tonight and boy howdy…. we had a tough time…. I don’t know if its because we used greek yogurt or what…we did use over ripe bananas-to not trash them and hoping it would be a natural sweetener….maybe we did something wrong…my KitchenAid mixer overheated and the dough was extremely dry and then adding flour to roll out the dough…made ours just dry and taste like flour. We couldn’t smell or taste any banana … we didn’t use any optional add ins… but I think I may dip our little triangle scones into a glaze or some kind of chocolate dip to give it a flavor other than flour.
It was fun to bake with my daughter, and I would try this recipe again in the future but add an optional add in and maybe skimp on the flour a little bit.
Thank you for sharing the recipe!!
It seems like you are using a thick yogurt which doesn’t rehydrate the dough as needed. Plus, dairy yogurt are high protein which also toughen the dough compared to dairy free yogurt that are more on the fat side. If your yogurt is too thick, dilute the yogurt with almond milk until it has a runny consistency that nicely drop from a spoon. If the dough is too dry, add a bit more banana or yogurt, and always work dough by hands, not in a stand mixer. The speed of a stand mixer also dry out dough faster. I hope you get best result next time.
Love this recipe. Could I use whole meal flour and if so would I need to increase any other ingredient? This would be fantastic for those on Slimming World as the whole meal flour can be counted as a daily allowance
You can but don’t forget to add 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder per cup of flour and expect a very dense and hard texture. Or, to keep the texture better, try swapping only 50% of the flour by wholewheat.
There were a few things in this recipe that had me a little bit, afraid to try it, but I did make them and they are wonderful! I was leery of the baking temperature 390°? That was weird and then also the dough was very dry and sticky so it was a bit messy but the scones came out amazing! I was short 1/3 cup of the banana so I added applesauce. I also added the cinnamon in the nutmeg. I’ll definitely make these again. I think they’re beautiful too. They bake up nice and Golden. I did not paint the yogurt over the top of them, I just put them in and they still look beautiful, taste moist and delicious!
I am so happy you enjoy them!
Sounds delicious. I’m going to try it today. I only have two bananas at the moment, should I adapt the rest of the ingredients? or it’s ok?
If you add less banana without balancing with something else the dough will be too dry and crumbly, it will not form. You can balance the missing banana using yogurt of any type, or applesauce.
The Banana scones were delicious very easy to prepare and cook and added a little strawberry jam and fresh cream thankyou for the recipe
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can you cook them in an air fryer
hi! can I use Greek yogurt?
Certo!
Probably, I haven’t tried but usually you can air fry anything that can be baked. It usually required less time in the air fryer, and you should probably air fry at 20C lower. I can’t tell exactly the temperature and time for now as I didn’t experiment myself yet.
Can i substitute yogurt to buttermilk seen that i don’t have it available?
I never bake with dairy, so I am unsure how buttermilk work and how it will impact the texture.
can ypubuse Gluten free self raising flour
I don’t recommend this option, I am pretty sure they will be hard as rock with it.
thx can I use cottage cheese?
I don’t bake with dairy so i can’t recommend on how it will work here.