Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

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

Selfmade scones. The last word in straightforward breakfast goodies!

Blueberries deliver a style of summer season to your kitchen. It may be zero levels exterior and all I want is a batch of Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins or one in all these wonderful 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 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 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 contemporary pot of espresso or tea for an ideal anytime deal with!

Ingredients for Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones

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What do I want for this scrumptious recipe?

Time to assemble your substances. Right here’s the whole lot it is advisable to 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
Contemporary 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 contemporary blueberries with this technique 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 shall be too moist, the feel of the scones shall be off, and there’s a fantastic probability your scones shall be BLUE.

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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 type a dough.

Now form the dough right into a spherical disk on a frivolously floured floor. Pat the dough together with your fingers 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 go away an inch of house between each. Sprinkle every scone with a little 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 frivolously golden brown.

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

Scones Ideas and Tips

Use chilly butter for finest outcomes! The chilly temperature retains the butter from melting earlier than the scones bake, for a scrumptious smooth, 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 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 luxuriate 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 little bit turbinado sugar (sugar within the uncooked) earlier than baking.
I like these scones served plain, simply as they’re. You may additionally unfold them with a little bit of butter, jam or clotted cream when you like. There’s no improper method 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 along with it, proper?

Then I discovered how straightforward it’s to make scones at residence. 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 contemporary cranberries are in season or when you’ve saved some in your freezer. These Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze are good for fall, however the substances are straightforward to seek out all 12 months 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 resolve which taste to make? This Combined Berry Scone recipe has a little bit little bit of all my favourite berries.

Blueberry Recipes

At any time when contemporary 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 listing, 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 obtained your blueberry baking minimize out so that you can attempt all of them!

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Created by: Lynne Feifer

Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are smooth, frivolously sweetened scones bursting with contemporary, 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 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, minimize in butter and cream cheese till the combination resembles coarse meal.
Add egg, milk and blueberries. Combine with a fork till the whole lot comes collectively to type a smooth dough
Roll out onto a frivolously floured floor and pat right into a circle a few 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 little bit 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.

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