This blueberry scone recipe is slightly sweet, uses frozen wild blueberries and is the only blueberry scone recipe you’ll ever need! Enjoy with coffee or tea.
Jump to RecipeThis is the only blueberry scone recipe you’ll ever need, and is perfect for enjoying during cold weather paired with coffee or tea. I’ve adapted Ina Garten’s strawberry scone recipe and think you will love this only slightly sweetened traditional scone recipe with wild blueberries instead of dried strawberries, and topped with sprinkled sugar.
You’ll simply need flour, unsalted butter, sugar, baking powder, salt, cream, eggs and wild blueberries. I like to purchase my organic wild blueberries in the frozen section of Trader Joes. Don’t thaw your blueberries, keep them frozen up until the moment you add a tablespoon of four to them and then add into the mixture. This helps to keep the batter from turning completely blue.
Blueberry Scone Ingredients
Basic Baking Ingredients including all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and unsalted butter.Â
Cream is an essential ingredient for this style scone. Make sure that the cream is chilled and cold for this recipe.Â
Eggs are needed for both the dough and the egg wash.Â
Frozen Wild Blueberries are the star of these scones! They are a great source of antioxidants and have wonderful flavor.
How To Make Blueberry Scones
To make the scones, first preheat the oven to 400 degrees. you will need an electric mixer like a kitchen aid.
First, add the dry ingredients which include flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, to your large mixing bowl.
Next, Mix in the cold unsalted butter cubes until dough forms pea sized pieces. Combine cold cream and egg mixture. Add to the bowl and mix until a sticky dough forms.
Remove bowl from mixer stand. Mix together frozen berries with a tablespoon of flour and add blueberries to scone dough. Stir in blueberries gently to avoid smooshing the blueberries and turning the batter too blue. Gently fold in the blueberries using a spatula.
Finally, Place dough on a floured surface and roll the dough to be about 3/4 inch thick. Cut scones into triangles and place on parchment lined baking sheet, or if you have scone pans, cut dough triangles to fit into the lightly greased scone pans.
For the egg wash, mix egg and 2 tablespoons milk in a small bowl. Brush the tops of the scones with egg wash and sprinkle generously with sugar. I like to use organic raw sugar that has a courser texture.Â
Bake 20-25 minutes until tops start browning and the inside of the scones are fully baked. Recipe makes about 16 scones.
Blueberry Scone Recipe
Blueberry Scone Recipe
This blueberry scone recipe is slightly sweet, uses frozen wild blueberries and is the only blueberry scone recipe you'll ever need! Enjoy with coffee or tea.
Ingredients
- 4 cups + 1 tablespoon flour plus more for rolling out dough
- 6 tablespoons sugar plus more for sprinkling on top of scones
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 pound unsalted butter, cold diced
- 1 cup heavy cream, cold
- 4 large eggs lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup frozen wild blueberries
- 1 egg beaten with 2 tablespoons milk for eggwash
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
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Using paddle attachment on your electric mixer combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
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Add diced cold butter on low speed until butter and dry ingredients combine to form pea sized pieces.
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Combine cold cream and egg mixture, add to bowl and mix until a sticky dough forms. Remove bowl from electric mixer.
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Mix together the frozen berries and 1 tablespoon of flour, and add blueberries to the dough.
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Stir in blueberries gently to avoid smooshing the blueberries and turning the batter too blue. Combine gently using a large spoon instead of the paddle attachment.
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Place dough on a floured surface and roll the dough to be about 3/4 inch thick.
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Cut scones into triangles and place on parchment lined baking sheet, or if you have scone pans, cut dough triangles to fit into the lightly greased scone pans.
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Mix egg and 2 tablespoons milk in a small bowl to make an eggwash. Brush tops of the scones with egg wash and sprinkle generously with sugar.
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Bake 20-25 minutes until tops start browning and the inside of the scones are fully baked.
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Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Serving size is 1 scone. Recipe makes 16 scones.
If you love this blueberry scone recipe you might also enjoy these ten muffin recipes, this lime avocado yogurt parfait, and these baked donut recipes.
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Oh my, I don’t know what I want more a delicious blueberry scone or that adorable scone pan!! I think I shall have to have both!
Thanks Pam! Enjoy!
These scones look so good. They would be great as my afternoon snack when I have my tea! I like the tip on keeping the blueberries frozen to keep the batter from turning blue! – Debbie, VA
Thanks Diana! Yes, keeping the blueberries frozen helps with keeping the batter from turning blue, and also frozen blueberries are available all year round!
Blueberry Scones are the best! These look so fluffy and delicious!
Thanks Shanika, we are big fans!
These look so delicious! Would love to have this with my morning coffee!
Thanks Taylor!
Perfect for Sunday brunch! Pop of blueberries are heavenly.
Thanks Tilly, they are definitely brunch-worthy!
What a great treat for breakfast! This will tasty great with my morning cup of coffee!
These scones go great with breakfast. Thanks Sara!
I would love a piece of this Bluberry Scone right now with some tea!! It looks absolutely delicious. I bet it was fun to make and is a good recipe for when you don’t have a huge amount of time to cook!
They go great with tea. Thanks Adrianne!
These look absolutely incredible! What a delicious way to use blueberries!
Thanks or your kind words, Bintu!
I am a huge scone fan and always love all things blueberry, so I’m loving these! They’d be so great with my afternoon coffee 🙂
They go great with coffee Sues!
These blueberry scones look so delicious! I’ll have to try making these for my niece and nephew as I’m sure they’ll devour them. 🙂
I hope they love them- my kids did! Thanks Lisa.
Love the blueberry scone, these flavors are so delicious.
Thank you Naveen!
my go to scone recipe! My favorite by far!!!
I just love scones! Pinning this recipe to try soon!
Thanks Scarlet, I hope you enjoy the recipe!
You’re right! This is the ultimate scone recipe. Just made this recipe for Christmas Eve day breakfast and everyone ate them all!!! This is going in my fav recipe pile! Thanks so much for sharing!
This makes me so happy to hear Stephanie! I’m glad your family enjoyed this scone recipe and that you are adding it to your recipe collection. Thanks for commenting.
Light and fluffy, I will make again sometime with an additional ingredient, lemon juice. One of my favorite food combinations is blueberries with lemon but the flavor of the lemon zest didn’t come through at all unfortunately. I will update whenever I remake it.
That’s a great idea to add a little lemon juice, please let me know how it turns out! Thanks for sharing!