Blueberry Lavender Scones
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Blueberry Lavender Scones
Description
This scone recipe combines dry ingredients including flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, cut with cold butter into coarse crumbs. Wet ingredients like buttermilk, vanilla extract, and optional lavender extract are added to form a sticky dough, which is gently folded with blueberries. The dough is shaped and cut into wedges before brushing with melted butter.
Baking at a high temperature produces golden, slightly crisp edges while keeping the center tender and moist. Finishing with a lavender-infused glaze made of powdered sugar, vanilla, cream, milk, and optional food coloring creates a glossy, floral-tinted topping, optionally decorated with culinary lavender flowers.
The scones can be flavored further by adding dried lavender flowers mixed into the flour step. They make a delicate, floral teatime treat combining fruity and herbaceous elements with classic scone texture.
Ingredients
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cups butter cut into pieces, cold
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon lavender extract optional
- 1 ½ cups blueberries
- butter for brushing, melted
lavender glaze
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon lavender extract
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 1/2 tablespoons milk
- Food Coloring if you wish, light pink or purple, a drop
- lavender flowers optional, culinary
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt. Add the butter and using your fingers, a fork or a pastry blender mix it together and combine until the butter forms coarse crumbs. I usually take a full 2-3 minutes and do this with my fingers. (Note: you can also add in 1 teaspoon of dried lavender flowers here, if you want to flavor the scones with the flowers!)
- Make a well in the center and add in buttermilk, vanilla extract and lavender extract (if using it). Mix with a large spoon until a dough forms and comes together – it will be sticky! Stir in the blueberries. Make sure your hands are floured and so is your work surface. Divide the dough in half and pat it into two 6-inch circles on the floured surface or one larger circle. Cut the circles into 6 or 8 wedges. Brush each with some melted butter. Place the scones on a baking sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes – or about 15ish minutes for larger scones. Top with the lavender glaze before serving.
lavender glaze
- To make the lavender glaze, whisk all ingredients together until smooth. If it seems too thick, add in more milk 1 teaspoon at a time. If desired, you can add a drop of food coloring to make it pinkish-purple! Drizzle on top of the cooled scones. Sprinkle the glaze with the lavender flowers.
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