Blackberry Scones

Tart and fluffy blackberry scones made in just an hour. These are the perfect summer baking recipe and can be drizzled with a lemon glaze or white chocolate.

One of my goals for this year was to bake more sustainably and environmentally friendly. One of the ways to do this is to only bake with seasonal fruits and buy produce locally. This is more eco-friendly baking because all produce bought is from a nearby area, not shipped across the world. Now that it’s peak blackberry season, I’ve finally been able to get my hands on these delicious berries. Blackberries compliment these fluffy and easy scones perfectly because they are bursting with juice, tart, and compliment lemon glaze and white chocolate perfectly.

Blackberry Scone Ingredients:

These blackberry scones use only 10 pantry staple ingredients for an easy, no-stress baking recipe.

• Flour: I highly recommend weighing your flour with a kitchen scale. If using cup measurements, use the spoon and sweep method.
• Granulated Sugar: We use sugar twice, once in the dough and once on top. If super sweet scones aren’t for you, omit the coarse sugar on top.
• Baking Powder: Baking powder is key for making these scones rise, make sure your baking powder is not expired.
• Baking Soda: Some may say this is optional, but it can’t hurt especially since these scones are slightly acidic from the blackberries. Fun fact: baking soda must combine with something acidic to react.
• Salt: Actually measure out the salt, it helps to balance out the sweet berries.
• Blackberries: Blackberries are best from June-Early September, that’s when I recommend making these scones. It is the most sustainable to bake in with in season fruits and will give you the best flavor.
• Butter: Butter is the true MVP to a good scone. In order to make the fluffiest scones, freeze your butter 15 minutes before starting these scones.
• Heavy Cream: Heavy cream will make the most tender scones, this cannot be replaced with milk.
• Egg: It is debated whether or not eggs should be used in scones, but I find it works well in this recipe to produce a cakier scone.
• Vanilla: I always make my own following Ina Garten’s recipe.

How to make Fluffy Blackberry Scones:

Scones are one of the easiest pastries for a beginner to master. It teaches the basics of crumbling butter into flour while creating a delicious result.

To make scones, start by whisking all the dry ingredients together. Then add in the butter. Using your fingers or a pastry cutter work the butter into the flour mixture until it reaches pea size. Many people like to shred their butter with a cheese grater, I personally hate the process of cleaning a grater so I haven’t included it in this recipe, but feel free to if that is a technique you enjoy.

Then add in the blackberries, we do this after the butter so they don’t get smushed in the process of working the butter. Then place this mixture in the fridge while whisking together the heavy cream, egg, and vanilla in a measuring jug. Make sure the butter, heavy cream, and egg are also fridge cold.

Pour the heavy cream mixture into the dry ingredients and mix them together with a wooden spoon until a shaggy dough forms. Dump onto a parchment lined baking sheet and pat into a 7-inch circle. Freeze for 20 minutes. We freeze these scones to give the butter even more a temperature blast when they enter the oven. Bake for 20 minutes at 400ºF, the higher temperature helps the scones rise. Top with your choice of white chocolate or lemon glaze (recipe below) for added decor.

Turning These Scones into Lemon Blackberry Scones:

Blackberry scones with lemon glaze is a highly searched Google term so I thought I would give a lemon option to these delicious scones. In order to turn these scones into lemon blackberry scones, create a super simple lemon glaze. Drizzle it on once the scones have cooled. All you have to do is whisk together these ingredients:

• 1 cup (120g) sifted powdered sugar
• 4 tablespoons lemon juice

Feel free to also add lemon zest to the dry ingredients for an extra lemony scone.

More Breakfast Recipes:

• Blackberry Orange Muffins
• Brown Butter Carrot Cake Scones
• Pumpkin Spice Scones
• Cara Cara Orange Rolls

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