Orange Glazed Blueberry Scones

Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence

Show: Food 911Episode: Chicken & Dumplings/Scones Not Stones

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Cook Time:
50 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
6 to 12 scones

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 50 min
Total:: 1 hr 0 min

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Ingredients

2 cups unbleached flour, plus more for rolling berries
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter, chilled and cut in chunks
3/4 cup buttermilk or cream
1 egg
1 pint fresh blueberries

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; mix thoroughly. Cut in butter using 2 forks or a pastry blender. The butter pieces should be coated with flour and resemble crumbs.

In another bowl, mix buttermilk and egg together, and then add to the flour mixture. Mix just to incorporate, do no overwork the dough.

Roll blueberries in flour to coat, this will help prevent the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the scone when baked. Fold the blueberries into batter, being careful not to bruise. Drop large tablespoons of batter on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until brown. Cool before applying orange glaze.

Orange Glaze:

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2 oranges, juiced and zested

To prepare Orange Glaze: combine butter, sugar, orange zest, and juice over a double boiler. Cook until butter and sugar are melted and mixture has thickened. Remove from heat and beat until smooth and slightly cool. Drizzle or brush on top of scones and let glaze get hazy and hardened.

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recipe Orange Glazed Blueberry Scones
Emiko Portola Valley, CA 11-18-2009
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DEEEEEEELICIOUS
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

super easy, very moist, quick. made them with frozen blueberries...and sugar, buttermilk, and butter infused with lemon... (becuase we are lame college students and don't own a zester). YUUUUUMMMMM almost ate the whole batch in one sittingRead more
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Excell Nashville, TN 10-18-2009
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Great scones!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made it yesterday and they were amazing. I idid't have any oranges so I used lemons. I will keep on using this recipe
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Maria Herndon, VA 10-11-2009
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Delicious
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These were easy and quick to make. Used frozen blueberries and they were still fabulous. Make sure the batter is super wet... and just barely come together.Read more
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null null, null 09-03-2009
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Not moist But willing try again...
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

Used milk last time, but going forward I will try buttermilk which will add moist. Having a wet batter and letting it stage... for 10 to 15 minutes before scooping with an ice cream scoop. Then increasing the butter contain might help 6tsp instead of 4tsp of butter. Just some ideas. My kids loved the Orange glaze. Not sweet enough will increase by 2-3 tbsp too. Read more
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A Vienna, VA 07-27-2009
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Well worth the effort
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made these for brunch, and my guests loved them. I have a couple of criticisms of the recipe, but other than that, they... came out moist and crumbly and delicious. - 1 pint of blueberries is too much for how much dough this makes. Use 1/2 pint to be more realistic. - Folding the blueberries into the dough without bruising them is harder than it sounds. What I ended up doing was making dough balls and putting indentations in them with my finger. I then placed blueberries in the indentations and pinched the dough around them to cover them up. - You don't need as much glaze as it calls for. You could halve the recipe and use only 1 orange and still have plenty of glaze. Definitely don't skip the glazing step, because I think the orange really brings it all together. These are wonderful for entertaining.Read more
recipe Orange Glazed Blueberry Scones
Heather St Louis, MO 07-21-2009
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Too dry
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I tried these, exactly as written, using the cream option (which I had on hand). They came out WAAAY too crumbly and dry.... I'm going back to my standby family scone recipe. Read more