Easter Brunch Ideas | Glazed Lemon Blueberry Scones
I can't believe Easter is only four days away! Although some days have seemed long during this quarantine, time overall is just flying by. I would first like to preface this blog post with the fact that I am by no means a food blogger. I have no problem admitting that my strengths do not reside in the kitchen 😂However, since we have been cooped up in the house for the past few weeks, I figured I could try something new and I landed on trying out some new recipes in the kitchen - especially baking 👩🏻🍳
This is Coop and I's first Easter Sunday in both of our lives that we haven't spent some part of the day with our family. I am thankful we at least have each other to spend the day with this year. Please know that if you are alone on Sunday and not able to spend it with friends or family because of this quarantine, my heart goes out to you and we will be thinking about you! Although I am thankful for the fact that I still get to spend the day with my built-in quarantine buddy, I am really going to miss physically going to church and going out to brunch afterwards to celebrate with family.
Since we can't be with our family and since we definitely can't go to brunch, I wanted to try a new recipe that would 1. be easy for me to do; and 2. would be something we can enjoy Sunday morning after we watch church online. This glazed lemon blueberry scone recipe by Maggie of @lovenerdmaggie checks both of those boxes. Maggie has a ton of good recipes and this one is easy and delicious. Trust me, if I can nail it the first time, so can you 😂I tweaked a couple things from her original recipe, but for the most part, this is pretty much the same recipe Maggie shared. S/O to Maggie for making me look good for my husband 😉
Below are the ingredients you need and the directions to make these delicious glazed lemon blueberry scones. If you end up making these this weekend, be sure to tag me! I hope wherever you are that you enjoy the true reason and meaning behind Easter Sunday. Happy (early) Easter, y'all 🐰
Ingredients
Scone Ingredients
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 T baking powder
1/2 t salt
6 T butter
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 T lemon zest
1/4 t vanilla extract
1 cup fresh blueberries
2 scoops of Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides
Glaze Ingredients
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 T lemon juice (I probably ended up using about 3T to make it less thick)
pinch of lemon zest
Scone directions
Preheat oven to 400 F.
In a stand mixing bowl (a hand mixer and big mixing bowl would work just fine too), combine your flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Cut the cold butter into six smaller pieces and add to the mixing bowl - mix the butter and dry ingredients together.
Work your way up to medium speed - try not to overwork the dough. You want the butter to break up into tiny pieces. Note: this took some time so you need to be a teensy bit patient. It eventually gets there, trust me!
Once the butter is broken down into the dry ingredients, now you can add in your wet ingredients. Add the almond milk, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon zest until the dough is moistened.
To add in the fresh blueberries, I took the dough from the mixing bowl and placed it on top of some parchment paper with light flour laid out on top. I lightly patted the dough out and worked the blueberries into it. There is no right or wrong way to do this but you just want to make sure that you are gentle and that you don't make the blueberries bleed too much here.
By hand, mold the dough into a rectangle as best as you can. This part was sort of hard for me, but just try your best (not going for perfection here). You want to make sure that the dough is about an inch thick. It will rise when you bake it, but you don't want the dough too thin.
Once in a rectangle shape, you will cut down the middle (I used a pizza cutter), dividing the dough into two rough squares. Then, cut diagonally for a criss cross with both of those squares. This should give you 8 total pieces.
Then take the 8 pieces and place them on a cookie sheet. I placed ours on a silicone baking mat that we have from amazon! These things have over 14,000 reviews and are amazing. Saves cleaning a pan at the very end too!
Bake for 15-17 minutes (or until golden brown). Let them cool and then drizzle the glaze on top to finish.
ENJOY!
Glaze directions
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl - powdered sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest. Adjust your lemon juice in order to get the consistency you need: a little more lemon juice for thinner glaze and a little less lemon juice (or more powdered sugar) for a thicker glaze.
Drizzle on top of your cooled off scones and enjoy!
with love,
~Katie