Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

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

Home made scones. The last word in straightforward breakfast goodies!

Blueberries carry a style of summer time to your kitchen. It may be zero levels outdoors and all I would like is a batch of Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins or one in every of these superb blueberry scones to do not forget that hotter days are coming.

As we speak’s scones aren’t simply blueberry scones. They’re Blueberry CREAM CHEESE scones!

My Raspberry Cream Cheese Scones had been such a success, 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 function 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 would like for this scrumptious recipe?

Time to assemble your substances. Right here’s every part you could make these bakery high quality scones at house.

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 should utilize frozen blueberries on this scone recipe. I wish to freeze recent blueberries with this methodology once they’re in season so I’m able to make these scones each 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 might be too moist, the feel of the scones might be off, and there’s an amazing likelihood your scones might be BLUE.

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Easy methods to Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

Making these scones is as straightforward as mixing up a dough, reducing 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 substances with a pastry blender or two butter knives. As soon as the flour combination resembles coarse meal, combine within the remaining substances to kind a dough.

Now form the dough right into a spherical disk on a evenly floured floor. Pat the dough together with your arms so its even. I made mine a few 1/2-inch thick all the best way round.

Use a spherical cookie cutter or biscuit cutter to chop the dough into rounds. Organize the scones on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, ensuring to depart an inch of area between every one. Sprinkle every scone with a bit 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 evenly golden brown.

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

Scones Suggestions and Tips

Use chilly butter for finest outcomes! The chilly temperature retains the butter from melting earlier than the scones bake, for a scrumptious tender, flaky crumb.
Watch out to not overwork the dough. You wish to combine the substances simply till mixed. Over mixing may end up in scones which are dense or robust.
Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones style finest loved the identical day you bake them. Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container at room temperature and revel in leftovers as quickly as doable. Extra causes to have a SECOND scone together with your morning espresso!
Need extra sweetness in your scones? Sprinkle the highest of every one with a bit turbinado sugar (sugar within the uncooked) earlier than baking.
I really like these scones served plain, simply as they’re. You could possibly additionally unfold them with a little bit of butter, jam or clotted cream in case you like. There’s no mistaken strategy to eat scones!

Scones with blueberries and cream cheese

Scrumptious Scones

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

Then I discovered how straightforward it’s to make scones at house. As soon as you recognize the essential methodology, you may 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 in case you’ve saved some in your freezer. These Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze are excellent for fall, however the substances are straightforward to seek out all yr lengthy.

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

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

Blueberry Recipes

At any time when 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 checklist, 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?

Seems such as you’ve bought your blueberry baking lower out so that you can strive all of them!

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Begin by rolling up your sleeves and baking a batch of those straightforward Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones to your subsequent breakfast recipe. They’re tender, flaky and filled with juicy berry taste!

Created by: Lynne Feifer

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

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Directions

Preheat oven to 425°F. and put together a baking sheet by putting a bit of parchment over it.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon zest into a big bowl.
Utilizing a pastry blender, or two knives, lower in butter and cream cheese till the combination resembles coarse meal.
Add egg, milk and blueberries. Combine with a fork till every part comes collectively to kind a tender dough
Roll out onto a evenly floured floor and pat right into a circle a few 1/2-inch thick.
Reduce into rounds with a 2-inch cookie or biscuit cutter.
Place onto ready baking sheet, about an inch aside and sprinkle every with a bit little bit of the Turbinado sugar. Bake for 12 minutes or till evenly golden.
Switch to a wire rack and permit to chill 1-2 minutes earlier than serving heat.

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