Lemon Blueberry Scones with Spelt Flour & Lemon Sugar

Tender lemon blueberry scones made with spelt flour, Greek yogurt, and topped with a homemade lemon sugar. Best served warm with butter (the only way to eat a scone, if you ask me!).

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Earlier this summer I went on a retreat, and for breakfast on our last day, we started with freshly baked warm scones with jam and butter. My world was rocked! I had completely forgotten how good a freshly baked scone could be, and I knew I had to make them more often at home.

Since I've been partnering a lot with a local mill for my food photography work, I have a few different flours on hand that I need to use, including spelt. I've been baking with spelt for years (please see spelt flour banana bread - a reader favorite!), and it's one of my favorites for baking because it bakes up really similarly to an all-purpose or whole wheat flour. I often replace it 1:1 for flour in recipes with high success, and I love the nutty flavor it adds.

So here's to baked goods that leave you feeling nourished! Warm scones with butter fresh from the oven are one of the small pleasures of life that we shouldn't go without for too long.

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• Some Ingredient Notes
• How to Make Blueberry Lemon Scones
• Helpful Tools for Scone-Baking
• Can I Use Frozen Blueberries?
• Using Up Your Spelt Flour
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Some Ingredient Notes

If you bake a lot, you might have most of these already. But if you're a more occasional baker, or new to other grain-based flours and ways to add flavor and texture, I wanted to talk through a few of these first.

• Spelt flour - This is actually pretty accessible, and can be found in most grocery stores. There's a mill in Wisconsin that sells their flours in a lot of retail spots close by, so I'm always buying their spelt flour! Substitution Note: You can absolutely use white whole wheat or whole wheat flour in its place.
• Turbinado sugar - Otherwise known as coarse sugar, or those wonderfully larger sugar crystals that add the most delightful crunch. We're going to rub them together between our fingers with lemon zest to make an incredible lemon sugar to top the scones.
• Frozen butter - Make sure your butter has been in the freezer for at least an hour! I usually put it in the night before I plan to make scones.

How to Make Blueberry Lemon Scones

Helpful Tools for Scone-Baking

These are the baking tools I find so helpful for baking scones!

• Microplane - Not just for baking, this is the key to zesting lemons (and also grating ginger and garlic, for other recipes).
• Pastry mat - So great for rolling out or shaping dough on a floured surface! It prevents sticking and makes for easier clean-up. I use this for rolling out my chickpea flour pastry and other pie crust as well.
• Silicone pastry brush - For brushing heavy cream on the scones; also great for brushing egg wash onto other pastries (pie crusts, scones, brioche, etc.).

Can I Use Frozen Blueberries?

You can definitely use frozen blueberries if fresh blueberries are out of season, and in fact that's one of my favorite ways to enjoy out-of-season fruits that were pricked and preserved at peak. If using, don't thaw the blueberries; just add them directly the dough while frozen.

As a side note, frozen blueberries release a lot of pigmented liquid as they thaw, so sometimes that can make baked goods look a little more blue. Not good or bad, just something I've observed.

Using Up Your Spelt Flour

Bought spelt flour for this recipe? Here are some other ways you can use it.

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