These buttery Gluten-Free Blueberry Scones are bursting with blueberries and drizzled with a tangy lemon glaze. These are the perfect treat for breakfast, brunch or snacks any time of day.

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Scones are a perfect way to treat Mom on Mother's Day. Like these Lavender Scones or these Earl Grey Scones, gluten-free blueberry scones are easy to make and sure to please.

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Why You'll Love This Recipe
Best Gluten-Free Flour For Baking?
Ingredients You'll Need
How to Make It: Step by Step
Tips For Gluten-Free Baking
Variations
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Why You'll Love This Recipe

These scones are gluten-free, but because I used a measure-for-measure gluten-free flour blend, you can easily make the recipe with regular flour if you choose.
These are tender and flaky, with a crunchy exterior
They're chock full of luscious blueberries
A lemony glaze adds a finishing touch and compliments the blueberries to perfection.
Gluten-Free Scones are easy to make!

Best Gluten-Free Flour For Baking?

No two gluten-free flour blends are exactly alike, so it's a good idea to try a few different blends to find one that you like.

There are now plenty of measure-for-measure blends available, which makes life much simpler because you can often just replace the wheat flour in recipes.

Some of the blends contain xanthan gum, which is a natural ingredient that provides elasticity and fluffiness to gluten-free baked goods. However, if your blend does not contain the gum you can also buy it separately and add it to your recipe.

A few brands, like the one I used in this recipe, contain milk powder, so watch for that if you are dairy-free or vegan.

Ingredients You'll Need

Gluten-Free Flour Blend: As mentioned above, no two gluten-free flour blends are exactly the same. For this reason, I can only vouch for the one that I used to make this recipe: Cup4Cup. Please be aware that this brand contains milk powder if you are dairy-free. And, if gluten is not a problem for you, you can use regular all-purpose flour, too.
Blueberries: For this recipe, I used thawed frozen blueberries, but you can use an equal amount of fresh blueberries, or even dried blueberries.
Butter: I used regular salted butter for this recipe.
Buttermilk: I don't usually have buttermilk on hand, so I make my own substitute by adding a tablespoon of lemon juice to one cup of any milk, which for this recipe is almond milk.
Sugar: Just a small amount of sugar is all that's needed here because the blueberries and lemon glaze add their own sweetness.

How to Make It: Step by Step

Making gluten-free blueberry scones step by step.

Make the Scones

Whisk together the dry ingredients.
Cut in the butter using a pastry blender.
Stir in the blueberries and sugar.
Add egg and buttermilk and combine.
Shape into a rectangle, then cut into triangles
Bake

Make the Glaze

Lemon glaze for gluten-free blueberry scones in a glass bowl.

Stir powdered sugar and lemon juice together until smooth.
Drizzle or spread the glaze on the scones.

Baked scones drizzled with lemon glaze on a parchment lined baking sheet.

Tips For Gluten-Free Baking

Measuring: Because gluten-free flour blends tend to be finer than wheat flour, they pack differently. So it's important to spoon the flour into your measuring cup rather than scoop it directly.
Mixing: When mixing scones and muffins made with wheat flour you want to avoid overmixing. When using gluten-free flour blends, it's ok and even beneficial to really mix well. This will give the batter more rise.
Cold Ingredients: For the flakiest scones, butter, eggs, milk, and blueberries should be cold, so keep them in the fridge until you are ready to use them.
Handling: Handle the dough as little as possible to avoid warming it. If the scones go into the oven cold they will keep their shape instead of spreading.
Sticky Dough: Don't be alarmed if your dough is quite sticky. Gluten-free flour behaves differently, so you will need extra flour for your work surface and hands when patting out, shaping, and cutting the dough.
Baking powder: Be sure to use gluten-free baking powder if you need the scones to be gluten-free. (Not all baking powder brands are gluten-free).

Four glazed blueberry scones on parchment paper.

Variations

These gluten-free blueberry scones can very easily be gluten-free any fruit scones! Just replace the blueberries with an equal amount of another fruit. Some suggestions:

Rasperries
Cherries
Blackberries
Cranberries

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