Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are mushy, frivolously 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 straightforward breakfast goodies!

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

In the present day’s scones aren’t simply blueberry scones. They’re Blueberry CREAM CHEESE scones!

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

Whereas cream cheese is entrance and middle 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 substances. Right here’s all the pieces you must make these bakery high quality scones at residence.

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 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 would like.

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 will likely be too moist, the feel of the scones will likely be off, and there’s an amazing probability your scones will likely be BLUE.

Process Photos for Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

How one can Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

Making these scones is as straightforward as mixing up a dough, chopping 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 frivolously floured floor. Pat the dough along with your arms so its even. I made mine a couple of 1/2-inch thick all the way in which 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 go away an inch of area between every one. 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 frivolously golden brown.

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

Scones Suggestions and Tips

Use chilly butter for greatest outcomes! The chilly temperature retains the butter from melting earlier than the scones bake, for a scrumptious mushy, flaky crumb.
Watch out to not overwork the dough. You need to combine the substances simply till mixed. Over mixing can lead to scones which might be dense or powerful.
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 attainable. 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 like these scones served plain, simply as they’re. You possibly can additionally unfold them with a little bit of butter, jam or clotted cream should you like. There’s no improper approach 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’ve gotten a cup of espresso in hand, you NEED a scone to go together with it, proper?

Then I discovered how straightforward it’s to make scones at residence. As soon as the essential technique, you may make scones to swimsuit any craving from Banana and Chocolate to Orange Marmalade!

Strive 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 substances are straightforward to search out all yr lengthy.

For extra summer time prepared scone concepts, attempt my recipes for Peach Scones and Lemon Poppy Seed Scones! And naturally, I’ll all the time love these easy, basic 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 such as you’ve received your blueberry baking reduce out so that you can attempt all of them!

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

Created by: Lynne Feifer

Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are mushy, frivolously sweetened scones bursting with recent, juicy blueberries. Good 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 inserting a chunk of parchment over it.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon zest into a big bowl.
Utilizing a pastry blender, or two knives, reduce in butter and cream cheese till the combination resembles coarse meal.
Add egg, milk and blueberries. Combine with a fork till all the pieces comes collectively to kind a mushy dough
Roll out onto a frivolously floured floor and pat right into a circle a couple of 1/2-inch thick.
Minimize 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 of little bit of the Turbinado sugar. Bake for 12 minutes or till frivolously golden.
Switch to a wire rack and permit to chill 1-2 minutes earlier than serving heat.