Blueberry Scones

Are you a muffin or a scone person?  You may certainly enjoy both (like I do), but everyone seems to gravitate towards one or the other.  I prefer muffins, my husband prefers scones, but either of us will happily eat either.     🙂

I love baking with blueberries when they are in season (so they taste better and cost less than the net worth of a small country) so I put them in all sorts of goodies.  These scones have a lovely vanilla flavor base and they’re loaded with lots of plump blueberries.

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Blueberry Scones Recipe
(8 Servings)

Ingredients:

  • 2 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup white sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 cup (equivalent to 1 stick) butter, cold
  • 1 cup fresh blueberries
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup 1% milk

Topping (optional):

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
  3. Cut the cold butter into chunks, add to the dry ingredients, and mix with a pastry blender or a fork until the mixture is crumbly.
  4. Gently stir in the blueberries.  Set this bowl aside.
  5. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla extract, and milk.
  6. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined.  Some dry spots are okay and will bake out.
  7. Evenly scoop the dough into an 8 section scone pan.  (* See note below if you do not have a scone pan)
  8. For the optional topping, brush the top of each scone with milk and then sprinkle with the sparkling white sugar.
  9. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes, or until they’re golden brown.
  10. Let the scones rest in the pan for 5 minutes and then remove them to a cooling rack.

* Note: If you do not have a scone pan, do not worry.  King Arthur Flour gives step by step instructions for this scone recipe using a baking sheet.

Store in an air tight container or in a freezer friendly bag in the freezer.

 

Scones are light and soft with a biscuit like texture where as muffins are more moist and tender like a cake.  Both are equally delicious baked goodies.     🙂

These scones are very easy to make.  A lot of the baking principles between muffins and scones are the same, for example, you don’t want to over mix the batter.  One key difference between baking scones and muffins is that when you bake scones you work with cold butter.  Cut the butter into chunks and add it to the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder) before adding any other liquid.  Unlike a muffin batter, the scone mixture will be crumbly at this point because of the lack of other moisture.

The rest of the steps are pretty standard issue.  Gently mix in the blueberries and wet ingredients (eggs, vanilla extract, and milk).

My husband is a huge scone fan so he bought this scone pan a few years ago.  I recommend placing the scone pan on a baking sheet to catch any blueberry juices that may overflow.

The scone pan is awesome but certainly not required for this recipe.  See my note in the directions section if you want to use a baking sheet instead to make these scones.

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These scones are so light and soft.  It’s crumbly, like scones should be, but the crumbs are fluffy and moist.  This scone recipe is a really great basic recipe that can be adapted to whatever kind of scones you’re in the mood for.  If you don’t like blueberries or they aren’t in season you could certainly substitute with other kinds of berries.  Or perhaps you skip fruit all together and turn them into chocolate chip scones.  I know, I’m always finding excuses to add that bit of chocolate into everything even breakfast goodies.     😉

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I love the purple pop of color from these sweet blueberries.  Sometimes blueberries can be a bit tart but I was happy to have found sweet ones today.

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The tops of the scones are a gorgeous golden color and are slightly crunchy from the sprinkling of sparkling white sugar.   The sparkling white sugar is optional and these scones would be just as tasty without it.  Naturally, I want my baked goodies to taste amazing, but it’s a bonus when they look pretty too.     🙂

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Breakfast time!  I love adding more butter on a warm scone (as if these luscious blueberry scones don’t have enough of it in them).     😉

 

Rating:

 

Source: King Arthur Flour

 

If you’re in the mood for baking blueberry packed goodies, here are some other great ideas:

Lemon Blueberry Loaf

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Skinny Banana Blueberry Shake

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Comments

  1. I’m a lover of both scones and muffins. My solution: Bake both!! Love the plump blueberries. Yay for summer!

    1. Tina says:

      I like how you think!! I bake both all the time. 🙂

  2. Kelly says:

    These scones look wonderful! I love both muffins and scones but if I had to choose I think muffins would have the slighter edge:) I adore baking with berries in the summer time too and ove how plump and colorful your blueberries look here 🙂

    1. Tina says:

      Thank you! Sounds like we think alike. I appreciate you stopping by. 🙂

  3. marcie says:

    I’m a muffin person, but I won’t turn down a scone, especially with all those yummy blueberries! Love that scone pan.

    1. Tina says:

      The scone pan was a splurge but well worth it. 🙂

  4. Muffins or scones? I like them both. But I haven’t made scones in so long! These look wonderful!

    1. Tina says:

      I’d never really want to choose because I do in fact love both muffins and scones each for different reasons. In the end they are both tasty breakfast treats. Thanks so much for stopping by Sally. 🙂

  5. I’m totally a scone person – especially these!

    1. Tina says:

      Awesome sauce! 🙂

  6. These look perfect. I need to get one of those pans!!

    1. Tina says:

      Thank you! They even make a mini scone pan…been tempted to splurge and buy that too. 🙂

  7. Karly says:

    Gorgeous scones! I was planning on making some blueberry treats today and I think these would fit the bill! 🙂

    1. Tina says:

      Awesome! Fun thing about blueberries is that you can do so much with them. Let me know if you end up making them. 🙂

  8. I want that scone pan…so I’m off to Amazon to put one in my cart! After I pin this for later, of course! I love how you describe how the sugar is on the top and how tart the blueberries are when you take a bite…I’m salivating‎!

    1. Tina says:

      You are very kind Gloria. 🙂

  9. CCU says:

    These blueberry treats are utterly brilliant 😀

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

    1. Tina says:

      Thanks so much! 🙂

  10. Tahnycooks says:

    I’m totally a scone person! And I need to get myself one of those pans! I love making scones!

    1. Tina says:

      Scones rock! It’s funny because I thought blogging about a scone pan would turn people off from making scones, even though you don’t need one to make them. But so many rave about the pan! I give my husband credit because I didn’t know they existed until he found it for us. 🙂

      1. Michelle Rossiter says:

        I will be on the look out for a scone pan, i just cut mine and place on baking sheet.
        But having one of these pans would be awesome !!

        1. Tina says:

          I was hesitant to buy a scone pan but I’ve used it so much. I think you would be happy you buying one.

  11. Shay says:

    These are delicious! I found it difficult to mix the wet ingredients into the dry while trying to avoid squishing all the blueberries, any tips?

    1. Tina says:

      Sometimes I have that same issue, depending on how soft the blueberries are. I find freezing the berries makes it easier to mix, but I don’t always do that because I forget to freeze them ahead of time. 😉

  12. Lani says:

    These were delicious, but it was a close call for me. 425o was way too hot an (convection) oven. After 10 mins, the outside was getting burnt (saved them just in time!), but the inside wasn’t done. I ended up putting them back in a 300o oven for additional 15 mins. Next time, I will try 350o. For me, it’s always blueberry season! ; -) Thanks for a yummy scone recipe!

  13. Michelle Rossiter says:

    Just took these out of the oven. The look amazing, can’t wait to try one.
    Thank you for the recipe.

    1. Tina says:

      Oh yeah!!!

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