The Best Blackberry Scones Recipe (With Only 4 Ingredients!)

These blackberry scones are so delicious! Yummy, juicy blackberries in every bite, this is also a super easy blackberry scones recipe, with only 4 ingredients!  Make these quick blackberry scones for breakfast, brunch, dessert, with your coffee or tea, or a quick snack to take on the go. They are super kid-friendly too!

Blackberry Scones

A couple weeks ago we didn’t leave the house the whole day. I had a few things on my list to do, like take Miss O skating and go grocery shopping to stock up our fridge with more food for the week.

And then because it was the time change, we stayed in our pajamas until almost 11am, and then baked cookies and made soup, and made these fresh blackberry scones!

This blackberry scone recipe is really easy. You only need 4 ingredients and you don’t need to cut in butter, or use a rolling pin or cookie/biscuit cutters. It’s mix, pour, pat, slice, and bake!

It’s a great recipe to make with kids, and makes a yummy breakfast or afternoon snack.

For another yummy 4-ingredient scone recipe, try (or save for later) these strawberry scones – they taste like summer!!

Other delicious scone recipes to try:

• Fresh blueberry scones
• Pumpkin scones (gf)
• Chocolate coconut scones (gf)
• Gingerbread scones (vegan)
• Lavender scones
• Mini peach scones (vegan)

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Blackberry Nutrition Facts

Did you know that blackberries are a nutritional powerhouse?

They have tons of vitamin C, fiber, antioxidants, vitamin K, vitamin A, and are good for brain functioning.

Plus my 4 year old doesn’t need any convincing to eat more fruit when it comes to blackberries. She’ll easily snarf down the whole container in one sitting.

Ingredients for Blackberry Scones

You only need 4 ingredients for these blackberry scones:

• Self-rising flour
• Sugar
• Whipping cream
• Fresh blackberries

Easy Blackberry Scones without Butter

You don’t need cold butter for this recipe, or a pastry cutter or food processor.

Heavy cream (= whipping cream) provides the structure and flavor that butter would, while making this scone recipe way easier than one made with butter.

You mix all the ingredients in a large bowl to make the scone dough – it couldn’t be easier.

The result is flaky scones with fresh berries that are ready in 12-15 minutes!

Blackberry White Chocolate Scones

To make a dessert version of these blackberry scones with white chocolate, add 1/3 to 1/2 cup white chocolate chips or white chocolate chunks.

You could also chop up a white chocolate bar and use that!

These would be delicious with a cup of coffee or afternoon tea.

Blackberry Scones with Lemon Glaze

For one of my favorite brunch recipes, try this easy variation.

This blackberry cream scone recipe goes really well with a lemon glaze drizzled on top.

To make a simple tart lemon glaze, mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 1-2 tablespoons of lemon juice.

Drizzle over room temperature scones for it to set best.

But if you just can’t wait, pour some lemon glaze over a warm scone and enjoy.

You could serve these blackberry scones with a lemon curd on the side for extra lemony flavor!

Blackberry Scones Tips

This berry scones recipe is super easy.

I love frugal and easy recipes, and this scones recipe is no exception.

Mix the self-rising flour, sugar, and blueberries together in a bowl.  Pour the whipping cream into a measuring cup, and then pour into the dry ingredients. Stir gently – you don’t want to crush all those blackberries before they bake.

Fresh fruit is the best for this recipe. If you don’t have fresh blackberries, thaw frozen blackberries and drain the juice. You don’t want to add that to your dough because it will make it too wet and we want these to be the BEST scones! 🙂

The bake time is short, so you can enjoy these tender scones really fast!

Because we are using a very hot oven to bake these scones, be careful of what you bake the dough on.

Parchment paper is usually temperature rated to 450 F and we are baking hotter than that so if you are going to use parchment (I did the first time I made these scones), use it with caution and check on the scones often.

I tried baking these blackberry scones without parchment and they worked really well. I used only a tiny bit of cooking spray on my cookie sheet (because I didn’t want it to smoke in the super hot oven) and the scones were easy to remove from the tray.  I used a rubber spatula and they came right off.

For a delicious variation, you can substitute chopped fresh cherries to make cherry scones.

You can make raspberry scones with this recipe too, or use a mixture of your favorite summer fruit!

These scones are best the day they are made, but will keep in an airtight container for a couple of days. Past that, you can freeze them in a ziplock bag and thaw frozen scones at room temperature to eat.

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I’d love to know if you make these yummy blackberry scones!