Scones are my favorite type of quick bread because of the texture and the many flavors you can incorporate in it. In general, I love chewy bread with rough textures. I guess you can now imagine why I fell in love with scones. I also love anything that’s glazed, even meat, and scones are, most of the time, glazed on top with something that complements its flavors.
I’ve made Pumpkin Pie Spice Scones a while back and it’s one of the things that became a regular pair with my cup of coffee during fall season. The other day, I was struck with the idea of making lemon-flavored scones but since I’m on a health kick, I wanna add some fresh fruits into it. Blueberries seem to be the perfect choice to combine with lemon.
Certain supermarkets carry fresh, plump, imported blueberries which are ideal for recipes like this or when you’re craving. It is also ideal because of the many health benefits you can get from it. For one, blueberries has one of the highest antioxidant capacities among all fruits and it contains many phytonutrients.
And it tastes so delicious when combined with lemon and turned into scones!
This recipe contains less sugar than the usual scones but make sure you take it easy on the lemon glaze…
Instead of milk, I used greek yogurt to bind the dry ingredients. This is my current favorite brand of greek yogurt because…… it’s the only one being sold at the grocery I go to…LOL!
Dry Ingredients + Wet Ingredients
Scones fresh from the oven!
- 1 cup All- Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- 6 tbsp. of butter {chilled}, cut into small pea size pieces
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup of greek yogurt
- 1 tsp lemon extract
- 1 egg
- Lemon Glaze:
- 1 tsp. of lemon zest
- 1 tbsp of lemon juice
- 2 tbsp non-fat Milk
- ¾ cup of powdered sugar
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
- In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.
- Use a knife, to cut butter until it resembles small peas and add the butter to flour mixture.
- Stir in the berries.
- In a small bowl, mix together the egg, lemon extract, and yogurt.
- Stir the yogurt mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
- Dump the dough onto a flour-dusted work surface and “knead” 3-4 times. {as much as you can, it will be very crumbly}
- Pat into a circle about ½ an inch thick.
- Cut into 10-12 wedges and transfer to a baking sheet.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes at 400
- To make a yummy lemon glaze to drizzle over the scones, combine powdered sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and milk to a small bowl.
- Mix well and drizzle over warm scones after they come out of the oven.
scones look so light and perfect , the dots of blue in there make them oh so special, loved the yoghurt topping, all in all perfect… 🙂
The blueberry’s on the scones makes them soo special. Just perfect for a sunny day out with someone special!
Simply luv blueberry and lemon – these scones look so good! I don’t think I’ve ever glazed mine before – am gonna have to try this version 🙂
I’m sure you’re gonna love it..specially with the glaze!
Oh mine! Blueberry scones is my dream breakfast. And so perfect in the Summer time, especially with the lemon flavor!
Oh, scones with butter would be perfect right about now. They looks too good.
Holy moly, these look AMAZING! I love blueberries scones and these are right up my alley!
I love blueberries, I mix it with my smoothies. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
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Peachy!!!! You did it again! How come you take very goood food photos! You really ought to conduct a workshop. I’ll be the first one to sign up! 🙂
Looks so yummy and very healthy too.
It looks very delicious because of the fresh blueberries and yogurt on it.
Mmmmmm scones!!! You had me at “Blueberry”! 😀
MMmmmmmmmm! I’m actually drooling over here just by looking over the beautiful captured photos of your blueberry scones (pang magazine talaga!)..it’s perfect pair for my cup of coffee right here beside me this early morning. Thanks for sharing the recipe..i could try it when we got our oven:)
oh my i’ve been looking for a scone recipe and yours looks like the one i wanted! PRINTED now lol. Thank you for sharing! LOVE scones blueberry especially 😀
You are so lucky you are able to buy fresh blueberries in your supermarket! I am dying to try this recipe but we don’t have these ingredients available here 🙁
What a wonderful breakfast!
Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Wow, these blueberry scones look great, can I have a few of them?
Have a lovely week Peachy 😀
What a beautiful recipe. I love the combination of blueberries and lemon. I love scones a lot but don’t make them as often as I should have. Thanks for reminding me to make a batch soon. 🙂
I haven’t eaten a scone yet. Wow, nakakabilib naman talaga ang galing mo sa pagluluto at pagbe-bake, Peachy! 🙂
Thank Edelweiza! Favorite ko dati yung chocolate chip scone sa french baker =)
Blueberries…. How I love them in the Summer! And lemons scones only get better with addition of berries.
I am a scone lover too. These looked delicious. I like the generous amount of yogurt in the recipe. And the glaze just tops it off. Smiles —-