Using my perfected master scone recipe, build your own scones with a variety of add-ins like chocolate chips, berries, or cheese and herbs. These better-than-the-bakery treats are flaky, flavorful, and moist with crisp crumbly edges. There’s a lot of helpful information and step-by-step photos, but feel free to jump right to the recipe!
Scones are sweet or savory, perfect with coffee and tea, welcome at baby showers, bridal showers, brunch, snack time, bake sales, Mother’s Day, and wherever muffins or coffee are appropriate. (All the time!)
But depending on the recipe and technique, scones can be dry and sandpaper-y with flavor comparable to cardboard. They can also over-spread and taste pretty boring. However, boring isn’t in our scone vocabulary!! My basic scone recipe promises uniquely crisp and buttery scones with crumbly corners and a soft, flaky interior.
I have several scone recipes that begin with the same basic formula. Let’s review the fundamentals so you can learn how to make the best scones. Sit back because there’s a lot to cover in this post!
What are Scones?
Depending where you live, the term “scone” differs. English scones are more similar to American biscuits and they’re often topped with butter, jam, or clotted cream. American scones are different, but different isn’t necessarily a bad thing! Today’s scones are sweeter, heavier, and aren’t usually topped with butter because there’s so much butter IN them. Sweetness aside, there’s still room for vanilla icing or a dusting of confectioners’ sugar on top. By the way, here’s my favorite recipe for traditional scones.
Scones are leavened with baking powder, so making them is generally quick. Blueberry scones are my favorite variety, but that quickly switches to pumpkin scones in the fall months! (Here are all my scone recipes.)
No matter which flavor you choose, these scones are:
- Moist & soft inside
- Crumbly on the edges
- Buttery & flaky
- Not sandpapery 🙂
Video Tutorial: Scones
Let’s start with a video tutorial.
Only 7 Ingredients in this Basic Scone Recipe
You only need 7-9 ingredients for my master scone recipe.
- Flour: 2 cups of all-purpose flour is my standard amount, but set extra aside for the work surface and your hands.
- Sugar: I stick with around 1/2 cup of sugar for this scone dough. Feel free to slightly decrease, but keep in mind that the scone flavor and texture will slightly change. Reduce to about 2 Tablespoons for savory flavors. Brown sugar works too. However, if using brown sugar, whisk it into the wet ingredients to get out all the lumps. For example, see my caramel apple scones.
- Baking Powder: Adds lift.
- Salt: Adds flavor.
- Butter: Besides flour, butter is the main ingredient in scones. It’s responsible for flakiness, flavor, crisp edges, and rise.
- Heavy Cream or Buttermilk: For the best tasting pastries, stick with a thick liquid such as heavy cream or buttermilk. I usually use heavy cream, but if you want a slightly tangy flavor, use buttermilk. Thinner liquids change the flavor and appearance. You’ll be headed down a one way street to dry, bland, and flat scones.
- Egg: Adds flavor, lift, and structure.
- Optional: Vanilla extract adds necessary flavor to sweet scones, but skip it if you’re making savory scones. Depending on the flavor, cinnamon is another go-to ingredient.
And don’t forget about the add-ins! Scroll down to see all my favorite scone flavors.
How to Make Scones from Scratch
So now that you understand which ingredients are best, let’s MAKE SCONES!
- Mix the dry ingredients together. Use a big mixing bowl because you want lots of room for the mixing process.
- Cut in the grated frozen butter. You can use a pastry cutter or 2 forks, like we do with pie crust, or your hands. A food processor works too, but it often overworks the scone dough. To avoid overly dense scones, work the dough as little as possible. Messy and crumbly is a good thing!
- Whisk the wet ingredients together.
- Mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients. Mix together, then pour out onto the counter.
- Form into a disc and cut into wedges. Wedges are easiest, but you can make 10-12 drop scones like I do with my banana scones.
- Brush with heavy cream or buttermilk. For a golden brown, extra crisp and crumbly exterior, brush with liquid before baking. And for extra crunch, a sprinkle of coarse sugar is always ideal!
- Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes. Keep scone dough as cold as possible. To avoid over-spreading, I recommend chilling the shaped scones for at least 15 minutes in the refrigerator before baking. In fact, you can even refrigerate overnight for a quick breakfast in the morning!
- Bake until golden brown. Scones bake in a relatively hot oven for only 20-25 minutes.
Cold Ingredients & Frozen Grated Butter
Keeping scone dough as cold as possible prevents over-spreading. When scones over-spread in the oven, they lose the flaky, moist, and deliciously crumbly texture. In other words, they’re ruined. But the easiest way to avoid disaster is to use cold ingredients like cold heavy cream, egg, and butter.
But frozen grated butter is the real key to success.
Like with pie crust, work the cold butter into the dry ingredients to create crumbs. The butter/flour crumbs melt as the scones bake, releasing steam and creating air pockets. These pockets create a flaky center while keeping the edges crumbly and crisp. Refrigerated butter might melt in the dough as you work with it, but frozen butter will hold out until the oven. And the finer the pieces of cold butter, the less the scones spread and the quicker the butter mixes into the dry ingredients. Remember, you don’t want to over-work scone dough.
3 Tricks for Perfect Scones
If you take away anything from this post, let these be it!
- Heavy Cream or Buttermilk: Avoid thinner milks which yield a flatter, less flavorful scone. Canned coconut milk makes a wonderful nondairy option!
- Frozen Grated Butter: See above!
- Refrigerate Before Baking: Remember, cold dough is a successful dough. To avoid over-spreading, I recommend chilling the shaped scones for at least 15 minutes in the refrigerator before baking.
How to prevent flat scones: See #2 and #3. 🙂
How to Freeze Scones
I used to be totally against freezing scone dough. You see, the baking powder is initially activated once wet and if you hold off on baking, the scones won’t rise as much in the oven. However, the decrease in rise is so slight that it doesn’t make a noticeable difference. In fact, you can even shape this scone dough into wedges and refrigerate overnight before baking.
- Freeze Before Baking: Freeze scone dough wedges on a plate or baking sheet for 1 hour. Once relatively frozen, you can layer them in a freezer-friendly bag or container. Bake from frozen, adding a few minutes to the bake time in the recipe below. Or thaw overnight, then bake as directed.
- Freeze After Baking: Freeze the baked and cooled scones before topping with icing or confectioners’ sugar. I usually freeze in a freezer-friendly bag or container. To thaw, leave out on the counter for a few hours or overnight in the refrigerator. Warm in the microwave for 30 seconds or on a baking sheet in a 300°F (149°C) oven for 10 minutes.
15+ Scone Flavors
- Blueberry Scones and Chocolate Chip Scones (both pictured)
- Cranberry Orange and Pumpkin Scones
- Banana Scones and Lavender Scones
- Lemon Blueberry Scones and Sprinkle Scones
- Caramel Apple and Cinnamon Chip Scones
- Triple Chocolate Scones – they taste like brownies!
- Strawberry Lemon Poppy Seed Scones
- Ham & Cheese Scones
- Mixed Berry (pictured): Follow recipe below and add fresh or frozen mixed berries. Raspberries and blackberries burst easily, so don’t go overboard on those.
- Cherry Chocolate Chip: Follow recipe below and add 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 3/4 cup chopped fresh or frozen cherries.
- Raspberry Almond: Follow the recipe below and add 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract with the vanilla. After shaping the scones, gently press frozen raspberries into each, using about 1 cup total. (Avoid mixing them into the dough, as they can bleed.) Top the shaped scones with sliced almonds before baking (1/3 cup / 37g total almonds). After baking, drizzle with the raspberry icing from these mini vanilla pound cakes.
- Fresh Herb: Reduce sugar to 2 Tablespoons, leave out vanilla extract, and add 2 minced garlic cloves, 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, 1/2 cup chopped herbs such as rosemary, parsley, and basil. Additionally, feel free to add 1 cup shredded cheese to the dough and top with sea salt before or after baking!
Using the master recipe below as a starting point, toss in your favorite add-ins like white chocolate chips, toasted pecans, sweetened or unsweetened coconut, dried cranberries, peanut butter chips, etc. If it’s a particularly wet add-in like chopped peaches, blot them with a paper towel before adding to the dough. Top with lemon curd, raspberry sauce, or any of the suggested toppings below. Above all, have fun finding your favorite flavor!
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PrintHow to Make Perfect Scones
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8 large or 16 small scones
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Use this basic scone dough for any sweet scone variety. See blog post for a couple savory scone options. Feel free to increase the vanilla extract and/or add other flavor extracts such as lemon extract or coconut extract. Read through the recipe before beginning. You can skip the chilling for 15 minutes prior to baking, but I highly recommend it to prevent the scones from over-spreading.
Ingredients
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled), plus more for hands and work surface
- 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup (1 stick; 115g) unsalted butter, frozen
- 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream or buttermilk (plus 2 Tbsp for brushing)
- 1 large egg
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1–1.5 cups add-ins such as chocolate chips, berries, nuts, fruit, etc
- optional: coarse sugar for topping
Instructions
- Whisk flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a large bowl. Grate the frozen butter using a box grater. Add it to the flour mixture and combine with a pastry cutter, two forks, or your fingers until the mixture comes together in pea-sized crumbs. See video above for a closer look at the texture. Place in the refrigerator or freezer as you mix the wet ingredients together.
- Whisk 1/2 cup heavy cream, the egg, and vanilla extract together in a small bowl. Drizzle over the flour mixture, add the add-ins, then mix together until everything appears moistened.
- To make triangle scones: Pour onto the counter and, with floured hands, work dough into a ball as best you can. Dough will be sticky. If it’s too sticky, add a little more flour. If it seems too dry, add 1-2 more Tablespoons heavy cream. Press into an 8-inch disc and, with a sharp knife or bench scraper, cut into 8 wedges. For smaller scones, press dough into two 5-inch discs and cut each into 8 wedges. To make 10-12 drop scones: Keep mixing dough in the bowl until it comes together. Drop scones, about 1/4 cup of dough each, 3 inches apart on a lined baking sheet. To make mini (petite) scones, see recipe note.
- Brush scones with remaining heavy cream and for extra crunch, sprinkle with coarse sugar. (You can do this before or after refrigerating in the next step.)
- Place scones on a plate or lined baking sheet (if your fridge has space!) and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400°F (204°C).
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat(s). If making mini or drop scones, use 2 baking sheets. After refrigerating, arrange scones 2-3 inches apart on the prepared baking sheet(s).
- Bake for 18-26 minutes or until golden brown around the edges and lightly browned on top. Larger scones take closer to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for a few minutes. Feel free to top with any of the toppings listed in the recipe Note below.
- Leftover scones keep well at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for 5 days.
Notes
- Freeze Before Baking: Freeze scone dough wedges on a plate or baking sheet for 1 hour. Once relatively frozen, you can layer them in a freezer-friendly bag or container. Bake from frozen, adding a few minutes to the bake time in the recipe below. Or thaw overnight, then bake as directed.
- Freeze After Baking: Freeze the baked and cooled scones before topping with icing or confectioners’ sugar. I usually freeze in a freezer-friendly bag or container. To thaw, leave out on the counter for a few hours or overnight in the refrigerator. Warm in the microwave for 30 seconds or on a baking sheet in a 300°F (149°C) oven for 10 minutes.
- Overnight Instructions: Prepare scones through step 4. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Continue with the recipe the following day.
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- Scone Flavors: See blog post above. If adding fruit, use fresh or frozen. If frozen, do not thaw. Peel fruits such as apples, peaches, or pears before chopping. If desired, add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon with the flour. I usually add cinnamon when making chocolate chip scones.
- Over-spreading: Start with very cold scone dough. Expect some spread, but if the scones are over-spreading as they bake, remove from the oven and press back into its triangle shape (or whatever shape) using a rubber spatula.
- Mini/Petite Scones: To make smaller scones, press dough into two 5-inch discs and cut each into 8 equal wedges. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Optional Toppings: Vanilla icing, salted caramel, lemon icing from this iced lemon pound cake, maple icing from these banana scones, brown butter icing from these pistachio cookies, lemon curd, orange icing from these hot cross buns, raspberry icing from these mini pound cakes, dusting of confectioners’ sugar.
I was so excited to make some. I exactly halved the recipe since I am not a baker and was scared to ruin. And then my batter got all sticky. I followed the exact recipe. Chilled it. Used frozen butter. Grated it. Everything.
Someone tell me where I went wrong 🙁
Hi Nawal, for next time, feel free to add more flour (a small amount at a time) to help the dough come together and become less sticky. That will help the dough become more workable and stay together so you can form the scones.
This looks so fun and I can’t wait to try it out but I have to ask; the buttermilk used here is this the combination of milk and vinegar left to set or simply a flavor?
Thanks a lot for your help
The batter is quite sticky you just have to work it as little as possible and shape once out of the fridge, they turn out delicious once baked
Add a little more flour until you can handle the dough. Keep putting it in the freezer to help keep it very cold. Use frozen berries. Mine had a similar issue as yours and this solved it. Turned out perfect on the first try!
Best recipe ever!
I recently made bacon and sundries tomato with grated Gran Padano on top!
Yum
Wow, the best, best scone recipe ever! Thank you! I’ll never eat another plain scone either. And I ended up cutting mine down to 16 scones as these babies were huge! I had so much fun with this recipe. A helper would have been nice, but who’s up early mornings! I made two batches, following the recipe as suggested and kept from adding all the milk/egg mixture. As I initially mixed with my hands, I then added more flour little at a time; my eggs must have been larger than called for. This was tricky but seems to be the secret, and once mixed I immediately placed in the Freezer. Because I wanted to make flavoured scones, I took out the dough from the freezer in small batches and added the extras. 1) slivered almonds and orange grated peel, 2) cut up small apple pieces dusted with cinnamon, 3) mixed raisins dusted with flour, 4) blueberries dusted with flour and 5)chocolate chips. The best part was that I loaded the extras. I had to dust flour as I added the extras and this kept the dough workable but not dry. I followed the recipe, and put the small batches back in the freezer each time. This kept the batter firm and workable and I believe it’s the trick to this delicious recipe. I did the same before placing them on the pan. Again Thank you!
Hi Christina, These all sound great! So glad you enjoyed them.
I had exactly the same issue as you!
Next time, I’ll keep extra flour on the side just in case!
Do you need to make any adjustments for baking these at 7,250’?
Hi Mark, we wish we could help, but we have no experience baking at high altitude. We know some readers have found this chart helpful: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/high-altitude-baking.html
I live at 6950 ft. and just baked cranberry orange scones that were fabulous. I don’t ever follow the King Arthur instructions exactly but come close: I used about 1-1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 tbs less sugar, 1 tbs more cream. Instead of adding additional flour to the dough, I just used more when patting it out and then was liberal with milk brushed over the dough. I baked at 410 for ~20 minutes.
That being said, I have a friend who followed the instructions exactly who said they were terrific, though the interior texture was not *quite* what he’d hoped for.
Perfect recipe! I made the pumpkin scones with a cream cheese Matcha glaze. My new favorite to serve with tea!
I want to make this recipe (savory) in the mini Nordic Ware pan. Would I just form a square like the pan and cut 16 scones and lay them in each section or just put some dough in each section and let it try and form the triangle on its own while baking?
Hi Glenna, if using the Nordic Ware scones pan, we’d recommend your first method — cutting them into 16 scones and placing them within the baking cavity. Scones will not change their shape much when baking, so they won’t form into a triangle on their own while baking. Hope this helps!
Wonderful Scone recipe. I have made this recipe using fruit, but never savory flavors. I was asked to bring a savory snack to a party. Using this recipe, I made a minced ham with Roquefort and cut them out using a two-inch round cutter. They were delicious, and a big hit at the party.
Hi Sally, love all of your recipes! I currently have these chilling in my fridge. Question though, the batter was so wet! I feel like no matter how much flour I added, it wasn’t helping. I did add blueberries which I’m sure doesn’t help, but I was worried about too much flour. I will make these, eat them and try again lol, but do you have any recommendations for helping the mixture from being too wet?
Hi Heather, Any chance you used frozen blueberries? If so, do not thaw before using them. This is a very sticky dough! If you decide to try these again and your dough is too sticky to work with, try coating your hands with flour and do the best you can to shape them. Since we are chilling the dough before we bake them you can try forming your circle the best you can, refrigerate it and then re-shaping if needed before cutting. The colder the dough the less sticky / wet it should be. Hope this is helpful!
Hi. My batter was a little bitter on some parts. Is it due to the baking powder?
Hi Wong, your baking powder may have been clumpy. Double check to make sure it’s not expired and that it’s fully incorporated with the dry ingredients — otherwise, there may be too much baking powder in certain parts of the dough.
these are reliable and delicious every time we make them!!
Can I make peanut butter scones with real peanut butter and not morsels? If so, how much should I use? Love this recipe, have used it multiple times. They are so delicious.
Thank you so much.
Hi Hanna! We haven’t tested a recipe for peanut butter scones and it would take some additional recipe testing for us to give you a confident answer. Let us know if you try anything!
Hi. I made the peanut butter scones. I used brown sugar instead of white sugar and added 1 1/2 cups of peanut butter morsels and a handful of chocolate chips. Toped with decorating sugar. Came out delicious. I only use your scone recipe so I had to improvise for these.
As always thank you for your great recipes. Hanna
These were so easy to throw together! I substituted half-n-half for the cream and they turned out just fine. I also tossed in some blueberries and made a quick lemon juice and powdered sugar glaze and they were to die for! This is definitely to be my go-to basic scone recipe, and I’m excited to try different add-ins!
Absolutely BEST process/Recipe.
So this time i did a batch of Choc Cherry (chopped dried sweet cherries and deep dark choc [70%] crushed) AND Cherry Cinnamon.
NEVER BUY A STORE MADE SCONE AGAIN!
Sally and followers: side bar: for those not used to cutting in butter- i challenge you all to go old school. Cold ingredients, clean hands, start scooping up and rub between hands. You butter is 1000% distributed and you know your done when you get whiffs of the butter wafting up to your nose. You will be AMAZED AT the textural lightness and deeper flavors from hand rubbing vs cutting in. (Plus it makes your hands feel awesome.)
I’ve loved all of your recipes and everything I’ve made has turned out delicious! I don’t know how I went wrong with this one. Followed all of the instructions with the frozen butter etc but when it came time to roll my dough, it was SO sticky! I must’ve added more than 2 tbsps of flour to it but to no avail. I think to those attempting this, don’t pour in all of the wet ingredients into the dry but drizzle as stated and stop once you feel you’ve got enough moisture to form a dough.
Really disappointed with this one.
This recipe is really tasty. I made 3 batches (blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate) with different flavors and they all turned out great. I shared them at work and everyone loved them. I’m about to try another batch by adding matcha green tea powder and see how it goes. Thanks a lot for the recipe.
Your recipe is full of tips for avoiding flat scones however all the photos of the scones you have uploaded are flat. None of them look like traditional scones. You should never over handle scones or leave scones to rest after shaping – I think that’s where you went wrong. Just tip the dough out of the mixing bowl and pat it into a tough circle about 4-5cm tall. Then use a round cutter to cut out your scones. Put them straight into a hot oven and you will get perfect tall scones! Even better if you preheat the cookie tray!
I used this recipe to make gluten free and dairy free. This recipe translate without any problems. I substituted King Arthur’s GF flour and silk yoghurt. Because I am salt restricted I used imperial margarine and a dash of salt. I also use this recipe with different additives and it has always worked out. It reminds me of my late husband’s home in Scotland.
We’re so glad to hear you enjoyed these scones, Melinda — thank you for reporting back!
Sconces have good texture but 1/2 cup of sugar makes them way too sweet.
I made two variations of this recipe. One with 1 cup of old cheddar cheese & 1/2cup of chives, and the other variation was with 1.5 cups of blueberries. The cheddar and chive ones turn out 100% on point, hands down the best I’ve ever had! However, the blueberry one spread/melted and the texture was very weak. Will try again with dividing dough into 2 thin 8 inch disks and placing the blueberries in between as a middle layer.
Could this recipe be halved?
Hi Nams, absolutely, simply halve each ingredient. Or, this dough freezes wonderfully if you want to make a full batch and freeze half for later.
FABULOUS!!
First try wild huckleberry scone success.
Thank you
These were great–nice an moist. I mixed in a 1/2 of bits of dark chocolate.
A question, though, that maybe someone can answer: I also like scones that are a bit dry and firm. I love the chocolate chip scones from our local Whole Foods–they’re not super sweet, they are not moist. They are perfect with coffee or tea.
Any idea how to get THAT texture out of this recipe?
ps: I really appreciate your “jump to recipe” button! A nice touch that many cooking/baking sites omit to compel us to scroll through. Kind of you.
Hello,
I’ve always enjoyed making these scones, but I’ve recently needed to change my diet and remove gluten. Can you advise on which flour will yield the most similar results?
Thanks so much!
Hi Tracy, we haven’t tested a gluten-free version of the scones, but many readers have reported success using 1:1 swaps with gluten-free flours like Bob’s Red Mill or Cup4Cup. If you give anything a try, we’d love to know how it turns out for you.
Not sure why, but these spread a lot for me. I’ve made scones before with different recipes, and this has never happened. I followed all the steps! Help?
Hi Michal, Did you use heavy cream (thinner liquids can change your results)? Make sure all of your ingredients are very cold. You can even place your bowl of flour in the refrigerator if needed. 15 minutes is the minimum we recommend chilling the dough but you can chill it longer – up to overnight. Expect some spread, but if the scones are over-spreading as they bake, remove from the oven and press back into its triangle shape (or whatever shape) using a rubber spatula. Thanks so much for giving these a try!
I used buttermilk, which the recipe states as an option. Then I chilled them for 40 minutes. The texture was also completely off – like a muffin top.
I’ve always liked scones and for years used a recipe from a Nova Scotia cook book. I used Sally’s basic recipe and added raisins. The results were excellent and had all I could do to eat just one as they came out of the oven. Next time I will alternate with other add-ins.
Have made the blueberry lemon scones and the chocolate chip scones. Both were amazing. I had never made scones before prior to making the blueberry ones, and they were a hit! My husband is trying to lose weight right now and he told me I’m not allowed to make them until he’s done losing! Thank you for such an easy, delicious recipe!
1st-time Blueberry scone maker and WOW what a success these were! Thank you
OMG this my first time to make scones and they shot to the top as a favorite! The recipe was easy to follow and they turned out perfect! They did not spread while baking and rose nicely… I had some left over whipping cream and used it in the recipe and it worked great… I can’t get the recipe to print and will keep trying. I don’t want to lose it!
I followed the recipe exactly, and mine were rather flat – more spread than rise. Any ideas why? The flavor was excellent but I’m looking for a taller scone.
Hi Shari, flat scones are usually a result of warm butter in the dough. Make sure to keep it very cold before baking! Thanks so much for giving these scones a try.
This is the first and only scone recipe I’ve tried and they’ve been wonderful every time. I’ve tried raisin, blueberry, and cherry. We make them for our neighbors in our building, and my Irish father in law. They get rave reviews. Looking forward to making more this weekend.
Hi Sally, I’m going to try to your basic recipe today for date scones – do you have a recommendation of what quantity of pitted dates to use and accompanying spices, then after baking drizzle? Thanks very much!
Lisa
Hi Lisa, No matter what add-ins you try, we recommend about 1 1/4 cups. This should work for dates too!
If you’re looking for a great scone recipe, stop here. I’ve been making scones for over 40 years, with pretty good results. Most recipes are pretty much the same, including using COLD butter. I ran across this recipe a couple of weeks ago and was intrigued with the idea of keeping ALL ingredients cold/frozen as you go (quite a trick here in So. AZ!) & refrigerating prior to baking so decided to give it a try. Result was best scones I’ve ever made. My husband agrees. Just to be sure it wasn’t a fluke, I made another batch yesterday. Just as good as before! I added a mixture of blueberries and raspberries. Only change I needed in both bakes was a bit (maybe 2-3 TBSPs?) of extra cream in the batter. Try it!
Thank you for reporting back with this positive feedback, Joan! We’re thrilled this scone recipe was a success for you.