Air Fryer Fruit Scones

Let’s combine 3 ingredient lemon scones with my tweaked bero recipe for scones, to make you the best ever air fryer fruit scones.

These fruit scones are perfect for just cooking on their own in the air fryer, or for putting together as part of a delicious afternoon tea.

Fruit Scone Recipe

As a kid I always watched my grandma make fruit scones, and then as I got older, you would help too. You would then make the most amazing fruit scones and have them with some jam and cream.

That was of course, growing up in the 80s/90s and nowadays we are all looking for simple hacks to make things easier. After all, isn’t that why we all have air fryers?

I started off my fruit scones recipe by using my grandma’s favourite bero books and who doesn’t love bero. Then I stumbled across a new love for lemonade scones, adding in some sultanas to the recipe and these are so much easier to make.

So today, I wanted to share with you the 3 ingredient lemonade scones that I have tweaked for the air fryer, added in a couple of extra ingredients to create a super-simple 5 ingredient scone recipe that features as the final recipe in our new Air Fryer Easy Everyday cookbook.

What Are 3 Ingredient Lemonade Scones?

A lemonade scones recipe is exactly how it sounds……scones made from lemonade. Plus, there is not a lot of lemonade in the recipe, so you can open yourself a bottle or a can of 7up (or another brand) have a drink and then add a little to the scones.

Then the other two ingredients are:

• Self raising flour
• Greek Yogurt

But I find they are a brilliant starting dough, and you can add things to them to make them your own, but never sweet enough to be scones. But of course you can add cheese for cheese scones, fruit and sugar for fruit scones and they are anything you want them to be.

Then whilst the bero recipe for scones is delicious it involves a lot more steps and ingredients so this air fryer scones 3 ingredients recipe is an amazing plan B.

Can I Cook Lemonade Scones In The Air Fryer?

Yes, you can cook lemonade scones in the air fryer, along with any other air fryer scone recipe.

Lemonade scones, once you have made the dough (if you have not done them before), just looks like any other scone dough and cooks in the same way. Its just the ingredients list can look a bit weird if you have not done them before.

Scones With Lemonade Without Cream

We find the best combination is flour, lemonade and Greek yoghurt. So if you are looking for a recipe for scones with lemonade and don’t want cream, then Greek yoghurt is the best.

Any will do, but I do love M&S fat free Greek yoghurt in this recipe because its so creamy and delicious.

Scones Recipe With Sultanas

Of course, I am all about making an air fryer fruit scones recipe but making my life easier. So, this scones recipe with sultanas starts with a traditional 3 ingredient lemonade recipe and then we add in the sugar and sultanas.

You can also mix it up and use various dried fruit or any sultanas or raisins depending on what you have in.

As Featured In Air Fryer Easy Everyday

When we were making our second air fryer cookbook (late 2023) we decided that we had to do an air fryer afternoon tea. But it would of course have to start with the scones.

Of course, its hard work making homemade afternoon tea because of all the different things to prep, so the scones had to be easy. So that’s why we opted for lemonade air fryer scones.

The beauty of them is that you can mix and match with recipes from the book. So if you haven’t ordered yet, grab yourself a copy below.

Fruit Scones Recipe Ingredients

So, lets combine lemonade scones with extra ingredients to bring you the best fruit scones in air fryer:

Flour – We recommend using self raising flour for your fruit scones, to help them rise.

Yoghurt – We have Greek yoghurt in the recipe to help make creamy fluffy scones. You can swap this for single cream (half and half) but we find its nicer with yoghurt.

Lemonade – Then of course, its scones using lemonade, so you will need a little. You can use 7up, sprite or another favourite and it doesn’t matter if its full sugar or diet.

Then those ingredients above is your basic lemonade scone recipe and now below is what we do to transform them into delicious fruit scones.

Sultanas – Jorge and I love eating raisins or sultanas, so we always have a bag on the go. You can also swap for any other dried fruit or swap for cheese.

Sugar – Of course leave out if you’re making cheese scones, but for fruit ones we recommend granulated sugar.

Can You Recommend An Air Fryer?

I often get asked which air fryers I recommend and which one I use. In 95% of our air fryer recipes, we use either the Philips Air Fryer XL or the Cosori XL because they are the best ones, we have found out of many air fryers we have tried over the years. You can click on the links above and read up on them. But if you would rather have a dual air fryer we recommend this Ninja Dual (make sure you order the right one as not all are good) or the Philips Dual.

How To Make Fruit Scones In Air Fryer?

• Mix. Let’s start with making the dough. Add the flour, sugar and Greek yoghurt to a bowl and start mixing with a wooden spoon. Add in the lemonade and continue mixing and then finally mix in the sultanas.
• Dough. Flour your hands, a clean worktop and your rolling pin and then bring together the dough with your hands and then place on your worktop. Roll out and then use a pastry cutter to make scone circles with.
• Cook. Place the fruit scones into the air fryer basket and spread out, making sure none are on top of each other. Optional of course, but you can also brush the tops with egg wash. Then air fry at 180c/360f for 14 minutes or until golden.

Now that is how simple it is to make scones with lemonade, transform them into fruit scones and air fry and now it’s your turn!

How Long Do I Cook Scones In Air Fryer?

Lemonade scones cooked in the air fryer, with or without the fruit take 14 minutes. This is because when you make scones you have the dough quite thick, and its to get it cooked fully in the middle.

What Temperature Do I Cook Scones In Air Fryer?

For scones in an air fryer, we recommend 180c/360f. You don’t want them browning on top too soon or drying out, and you want to get the centre perfectly cooked too.

Ninja Air Fryer Scones

If you’re cooking scones in ninja air fryer, then this is really easy to adapt. In fact our new cookbook Air Fryer Easy Everyday, features every recipe for the ninja air fryer and the air fryer basket. Because the drawers are narrow, instead you can follow this scone recipe for air fryer and spread the scones between the two drawers.

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It’s all about adapting this recipe for air fryer scones to suit you. You can add the same weight of sultanas as you can cheese, then leave out the sugar and you have cheese scones. You can also add in favourite dried herbs too or use them as another alternative for dumplings without suet.

Plus, if you love scones also try our original air fryer scones recipe, as well as our air fryer fat rascals.

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