Coconut Scones with Coconut Oil

Hardened coconut oil after overnight refrigeration Photo by Cynthia Nelson

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A couple of years ago, in my Tastes Like Home column, I had written about my experiments using hardened coconut oil (liquid coconut oil that solidified when refrigerated) to replace butter in pastries, cakes and other treats like scones and biscuits. At the time I had shared the recipes for making a coconut oil pound cake and short crust pastries.

Over the years I have made many types of scones but these are my