This blackberry scones recipe is loaded with fresh blackberries and comes out tender and moist from the addition of sour cream. They are perfect for a snack, dessert, or served alongside your morning coffee.

blackberry scone on a plate — Blackberry scones.

Why You'll Love These Blackberry Scones

Tender: These blackberry scones are so tender because of the sour cream.
Delicious: These scones are delicious! The fruity blackberry flavor that contrasts with the sour cream is the perfect flavor combination.
Perfect for any occasion: We serve these for breakfast, brunch, or snacks. We even eat them for dessert. These scones are perfect for so many reasons.

I make a lot of scones because I really love them with my morning coffee. These blackberry and sour cream scones are one of my favorite weekend breakfasts to whip up. I start early in the morning when everyone is still sleeping and by the time everyone wakes up, warm scones are fresh from the oven.

You can make this recipe with or without a scone pan as well. The scone pan adds a nice golden edge to the scones if you use it. The recipe is the same for both methods.

Ingredients you will need

Here is what you need, full recipe below:

All-purpose flour. This is the best flour for scones.
Baking powder. This helps the scones rise and the weight of the blackberries in the scone dough needs the extra lift.
Sugar
Kosher salt
Sour cream. This adds a tenderness to the dough that makes the scones moist and tender.
Vanilla extract.
Egg. I use large eggs for my scone recipes.
Unsalted butter. Make sure the butter you use is unsalted.
Milk. Just a little bit for the dough and some for brushing on top of the scones.
Fresh blackberries. I always use fresh blackberries for these scones. Frozen will not hold their shape during baking.

How to make blackberry scones

This recipe does have a few more steps than my other scone recipes, but it pays off in the end (full details below):

Preparing the dough for the blackberry scones including: shredding the butter, mixing wet ingredients, dry ingredients and then combining them all.

Mix dry ingredients: Mix all of the dry ingredients together.
Cut in the butter: You add the butter to the dry ingredients and forks or a food processor, and incorporate the butter into the flour until it resembles the size of peas.
Mix wet ingredients: Mix the wet ingredients together.
Combine wet and dry ingredients: You want to mix the wet and dry ingredients until just combined. Shaggy dough is good scone dough!
Chill: Chill the dough for a little bit.

Preparing the blackberry scones including: rolling out the dough, adding blackberries and then re-rolling.

Add blackberries then roll and cut: Now roll out the scone dough and add the blackberries to the top then fold it over and cut.
Bake: In a preheated 400-degree oven until golden and delicious.

Tips

Do not overwork the dough. Shaggy looking dough is good for making scones. Scone dough should not look smooth.
Gently press the blackberries into the dough so you do not end up with pureed blackberries in your scones 🙂
Use your fingertips when working with the scone dough and not your hands which are warmer and will soften the butter too much.
Fold the scones for those beautiful layers that we all love in scones.

Substitutions

Substitute yogurt for the sour cream.
You can use any fruit you like or have on hand. Blueberry and strawberries go really well with these scones.

Storing

Fresh homemade scones are always best eaten fresh within hours of baking. iff you do have some leftover, store them in an airtight container for up to one day. After that, they loose their freshness and light layers and start to become more like bread.

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5 from 1 vote

Blackberry Scones

Prep Time20

Cook Time20

Total Time40

Servings: scones

Author: Melissa Oleary

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup sour cream
12 tablespoon unsalted butter (cold) cut into ½ inch pieces
1 pint blackberries washed and dried
1 large egg
2 tablespoon sugar plus more for sprinkling on top of the scones
2 tablespoon milk plus more for brushing on scones
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 F
In a large bowl add your flour, salt, sugar and baking powder.
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, 1 tablespoon baking powder
Shred the butter on the coarse side of a cheese grater then using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour mixture until the butter becomes the size of peas. Place your bowl in the freezer.
12 tablespoon unsalted butter (cold)
Now in a medium bowl combine wet ingredients and mix well
½ cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 1 large egg, 2 tablespoon milk
Remove your bowl of dry ingredients from the freezer and stir the wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just combined (don't over mix). It will not look like a uniform dough at this point.
Now take your dough and turn it out on to a floured surface. Pull it all together into a ball.
Pat down the dough into a square shape about ½ inch thick. Roll it out a little to make it a little more square if you need to.
Now fold this in half and place into your bowl and freeze for 5-10 minutes.
Grease a baking sheet or add parchment paper to it.
Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently form into a ball and pat down (with a rolling pin or finger tips, not your hands) until it looks more like a disc and not a round ball.
Gently roll the dough into a round circle that is about ¾ inch thick.
At this point, sprinkle ½ your berries on top and gently press in to the dough until they are flush with the dough. Some may break but that is ok!
1 pint blackberries
Fold the dough in half and gently roll again into a ¾ inch thick circle.
Add the remaining berries to the top and gently press them into the dough.
You can either cut your shapes out of the dough with a knife (for triangles) or you can use a biscuit cutter.
Place your scones onto a baking sheet or into a scone pan.

Topping

Brush the tops of your scones with milk and then sprinkle with some sugar
Bake for 18-25 minutes or until they just start to get golden on top and bottom.
When done, let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
Serve with coffee, tea or with some sweet butter on the side.
Enjoy!

Nutrition

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Course :Breakfast