Easy Scones Recipe with Blueberries & Cream

My Easy Scone recipe will soon become a family favorite! Topped with a blueberry compote and homemade whipped cream this will make a delicious weekend breakfast treat or dessert that your friends and family will enjoy for years to come.

This is more of an English Scone than some you see around the internet. These plain scones are perfect for afternoon tea with clotted cream and jam, or Irish butter. Not a fan of blueberries? Make a compote out of your favorite seasonal fruit.

But anyway you serve them, it’s going to be one delicious scone – it’s a great recipe!

Ingredients

Let’s start by gathering the ingredients we need to make sones with a blueberry compote and whipped cream. In Chef Speak, this is called the “Mise en Place”, which translates to “Everything in its Place”.

Not only does setting your ingredients up ahead of time speed up the cooking process, it also helps ensure you have everything you need to make the dish.

How to Make Scones

Follow along with my simple step-by-step instructions to learn how to make scones in your home kitchen.

• Add the all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and lime zest to the bowl of a food processor.
• Pulse the dry ingredients to combine.
• Add the cubes of unsalted butter to the flour mixture.
• Pulse until the butter has been cut into the mixture; it should be like coarse grains of sand (you can use a pastry blender to cut in the butter if you don’t want to use a food processor).

• Add the yogurt, cream, and vanilla to a small mixing bowl.
• Mix the wet ingredients together until well blended
• Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture.
• Mix the combined ingredients with a spoon until the mixture just starts to come together. Do not overmix.

• Dump the scone dough onto a lightly floured work surface (only a light dusting, don’t add additional flour to the dough)
• Form the mixture into a ball and use your hands to form the dough into a large circle and flatten till about 1 ¼ inch thick.
• Using a drinking glass or cutter, cut out the scones in circles. Reform any dough left over and repeat the process until you’ve finished using all the dough.
• Place the scones on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush the scones with heavy cream. This will give the scones an amazing golden brown color (milk can be substituted).

*Chilling the cut-out scones for 20-30 minutes before baking will give you a flakier scone.

• Bake for 15-20 minutes in a preheated 400-degree F oven, or until golden brown in color.
• Transfer the scones to a wire rack to cool.

How to Make Blueberry Compote

• Place blueberries, sugar, water, and lime juice in a small pot or sauté pan.
• Place the pot on the stove over medium-high heat.
• Bring the berries to a boil, and continue to cook until the skins of the blueberries pop open. Remove the pot from the heat and remove about two tablespoons of juice from the pan. Allow it to cool briefly.
• Add the liquid from the blueberries to a small bowl, and add the cornstarch to the liquid.
• Mix the cornstarch with the blueberry juice until all of the cornstarch has been blended and the mixture is smooth.
• Add the cornstarch mixture into the pot of blueberries and return to the stove. Set the burner to simmer and continue cooking for a few more minutes, until the compote has thickened.

Allow the compote to cool before serving. The blueberry compote can be served at room temperature, slightly warmed, or chilled.

Then it’s just a matter of spooning that delicious homemade blueberry compote on the bottom section of a sliced scone. You can add whipped cream to make this an extra-special treat, or serve it with just the compote (and perhaps a little Irish butter).

You’ll soon agree these are the easiest and best scones you’ve ever made!

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