Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones | 365 Days of Baking and Extra

Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are gentle, calmly sweetened scones bursting with recent, juicy blueberries. Good for breakfast, a Mom’s Day brunch, tea time or a day snack!

Do-it-yourself scones. The final word in simple breakfast goodies!

Blueberries deliver a style of summer season to your kitchen. It may be zero levels outdoors and all I want is a batch of Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins or one in all these wonderful blueberry scones to keep in mind that hotter days are coming.

At the moment’s scones aren’t simply blueberry scones. They’re Blueberry CREAM CHEESE scones!

My Raspberry Cream Cheese Scones had been such successful, that I simply needed to make a blueberry model too. Including cream cheese to the pastry dough, together with butter, provides the scones a softer crumb and trace of tangy taste.

Whereas cream cheese is entrance and heart in desserts like Blueberry Cheesecake and Strawberry Cream Cheese Hand Pies it performs extra of a supporting position in Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones, with small chunks of cream cheese enhancing the candy, tart, juicy style of blueberries.

Serve these scones with a recent pot of espresso or tea for an ideal anytime deal with!

Ingredients for Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

What do I want for this scrumptious recipe?

Time to assemble your elements. Right here’s the whole lot you could make these bakery high quality scones at dwelling.

All-purpose flour
Sugar
Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
Lemon zest
1/4 cup Butter
Cream cheese
Recent blueberries
Egg
Milk
Turbinado Sugar – or uncooked sugar to sprinkle on the tops of the scones

Can I substitute frozen blueberries?

Sure, you need to use frozen blueberries on this scone recipe. I prefer to freeze recent blueberries with this technique once they’re in season so I’m able to make these scones every time I need.

You’ll simply want to ensure to thaw the frozen blueberries first. Then use a paper towel to blot away the surplus moisture. In any other case the dough can be too moist, the feel of the scones can be off, and there’s a terrific likelihood your scones can be BLUE.

Process Photos for Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

Find out how to Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

Making these scones is as simple as mixing up a dough, slicing it into circles, and baking.

Begin by including the flour, baking powder, salt and zest to a big bowl. Mix butter and cream cheese by incorporating them into the dry elements with a pastry blender or two butter knives. As soon as the flour combination resembles coarse meal, combine within the remaining elements to kind a dough.

Now form the dough right into a spherical disk on a calmly floured floor. Pat the dough along with your palms so its even. I made mine a couple of 1/2-inch thick all the best way round.

Use a spherical cookie cutter or biscuit cutter to chop the dough into rounds. Prepare the scones on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, ensuring to depart an inch of house between each. Sprinkle every scone with a bit of little bit of Turbinado sugar.

Place the scones in a preheated oven set to 425 F levels. Baking time is about 12 minutes, or till the tops are a calmly golden brown.

These blueberry scones solely want a few minutes to chill on a wire rack earlier than consuming. I believe they style greatest heat, virtually proper out of the oven!

Scones Ideas and Tips

Use chilly butter for greatest outcomes! The chilly temperature retains the butter from melting earlier than the scones bake, for a scrumptious gentle, flaky crumb.
Watch out to not overwork the dough. You wish to combine the elements simply till mixed. Over mixing can lead to scones which can be dense or robust.
Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones style greatest loved the identical day you bake them. Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container at room temperature and luxuriate in leftovers as quickly as potential. Extra causes to have a SECOND scone along with your morning espresso!
Need extra sweetness in your scones? Sprinkle the highest of every one with a bit of turbinado sugar (sugar within the uncooked) earlier than baking.
I really like these scones served plain, simply as they’re. You would additionally unfold them with a little bit of butter, jam or clotted cream should you like. There’s no fallacious solution to eat scones!

Scones with blueberries and cream cheese

Scrumptious Scones

I used to spend a lot cash on scones from espresso outlets and bakeries. When you will have a cup of espresso in hand, you NEED a scone to go together with it, proper?

Then I realized how simple it’s to make scones at dwelling. As soon as you realize the essential technique, you can also make scones to swimsuit any craving from Banana and Chocolate to Orange Marmalade!

Attempt these Cranberry Macadamia Scones subsequent time recent cranberries are in season or should you’ve saved some in your freezer. These Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze are excellent for fall, however the elements are simple to search out all yr lengthy.

For extra summer season prepared scone concepts, attempt my recipes for Peach Scones and Lemon Poppy Seed Scones! And naturally, I’ll all the time love these easy, traditional Simple Strawberry Scones!

Can’t determine which taste to make? This Blended Berry Scone recipe has a bit of little bit of all my favourite berries.

Blueberry Recipes

Every time recent blueberries are in season, I’ve a tough time deciding what I’ll use them for. Not as a result of I don’t have any concepts, however as a result of I’ve too many! I can’t get sufficient of breakfast delights like Baked Blueberry Oatmeal and Blueberry French Toast.

To not point out desserts like Blueberry Coriander Bundt Cake and Blueberry Ginger Galette.

Now I’ve blueberry scones with cream cheese so as to add to the record, together with the handfuls and dozens of different blueberry recipes I’ve on the weblog.

What number of of my favourite blueberry recipes have you ever tried?

Appears to be like such as you’ve obtained your blueberry baking minimize out so that you can attempt all of them!

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Created by: Lynne Feifer