Scones are a simple from scratch dessert to bake at home, and a great way to use up dehydrated (or freeze dried) berries, homemade jams, or other fruit preserves from the summer.

Scones are treated as a dessert around here, but they are lower sugar than most other desserts leaving us with less guilt, and if you have a food processor it takes mere minutes to mix together and pop in the oven.

Here I go into tools you need, ingredients, and step by step instructions to make the Chocolate Blueberry Scones from scratch at home.

Chocolate Blueberry Scone Recipe

The base recipe I like to follow comes from a quaint, little cookbook I found thrifting, called In Chelsea’s Kitchen by Mary Earnest Hudson. It’s a recipe book from Tea Rooms over in Britian.

This little cookbook seems to have lost its way in the mass age of online information and shopping, but it has the best scone recipe tucked away in it.

So, I figured I would share this with you all because scones are a simple baked good to make from scratch at home and a great way to use up dehydrated (or freeze dried) berries, homemade jams, and other home preserves from the summertime.

Listed below is a variation recipe for Chocolate Blueberry Scones not listed in the cookbook, but the version I like to make for my family.

I use a biscuit cutter for mine

Tools You Need

Flour sifter
Food processor or pastry cutter
Biscuit cutter (or cookie cutter)
Cookie sheet

Ingredients

Chocolate Blueberry Scone

2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 stick of butter, very cold/frozen, cubed
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup dried blueberries

Sugar Glaze

2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
You will need a whisk to mix this well

Instructions

Makes several scones, it just depends on the size you make them.

(You can do this by hand, replace the food processor with a fork or pastry cutter for the butter)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
With your flour sifter, sift together flour, sugar, salt, cocoa powder, baking powder, and place into your food processor.
Add frozen butter cubes, and pulse on low until flour looks like crumbs.
Add, milk and egg. Mix on low until it comes together, being careful not to overmix. The crumblier the better. If dough is too sticky, just use more flour in the next step.
Dump dough onto a well-floured surface. Make a small well in the middle and add your blueberries. Mix by hand until the blueberries are mixed throughout (about 5 or 6 kneads). You can chop your berries if you wish, also.
Dough should be together without it being too sticky at this point.
Shape your scones: Roll your dough to 1/2-inch thickness, and use a biscuit cutter, cookie cutter, or shape the dough in a circle can cut pie wedge shapes. This is up to you, just make sure they are even so they cook evenly.
Bake for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of your scone. Larger ones take longer (sometimes even 18 or so minutes), while smaller ones take the 10 minutes. Crust should be golden brown, and the middle should be done. I usually leave one for the ‘tester’ especially if I am making larger scones to make sure the middle get’s cooked.
After baking, make the sugar glaze and add the tops of the scones while hot. Making sure to spread some on the sides. The glaze will crust over while it cools.
Allow the scones to cool for serving. Can be served warmed or cooled, with butter or jam, or eaten plain.
Enjoy!

That’s It!

I usually make double batches of these, so I have leftovers. I will even freeze some to have for another day.

We treat these as desserts around our house, but they are full of delicious and quality ingredients like our farm eggs, grass fed butter, good cocoa powder, and with not that much sugar when compared to other desserts.

The cookbook gives other variations also, and it’s worth seeing if you can snag a copy somewhere. It actually has a lot great, ‘tea party’ styled foods in there that are delicious.

Be sure to check out what berries you can grow at home, so you can make your own variations of scones with your homegrown berries: Growing Berries at Home | Practical Fruit Bushes for Home Gardeners

Enjoy!

-Chelsea, The Cottage Vegetable

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