Bisquick Scones
Bisquick scones are one of the easiest ways to make soft, bakery-style scones at home without measuring flour or leavening ingredients from scratch.
Using Bisquick baking mix keeps the process quick and beginner-friendly while still creating tender, lightly sweet scones that are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or afternoon coffee.
This recipe walks you through exactly how to get fluffy results every time.
If you enjoy baking with shortcut mixes, explore these recipes with Bisquick for even more easy breakfast and dessert ideas made with pantry staples.
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Can Bisquick be used for scones?
Yes! It works beautifully because it already contains flour, baking powder, salt, and fat in balanced proportions. That means you don’t need to measure separate leavening ingredients, making it one of the easiest ways to bake tender, fluffy scones at home.
How to Make Scones with Bisquick
- Preheat your oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray with baking spray.
- In a bowl, whisk together Bisquick and sugar, then cut in cold butter until the mixture is crumbly.
- Stir in the eggs, milk, and vanilla until a soft dough forms.
- Press the dough into an 8-inch circle and cut into 8 wedges.
- Transfer wedges to the prepared baking sheet and bake until golden brown.
- Let cool slightly, then drizzle with a simple vanilla glaze made from confectioners’ sugar, milk, and vanilla.
This scones recipe is easy to adapt—try making blueberry scones, add pumpkin puree with warm spices, or make chocolate chip scones to create new flavors perfect for any season.
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Tips for Making the Best Bisquick Scones
- Start with cold butter because it creates steam as it melts in the oven, helping the scones rise taller with a light, flaky texture.
- Don’t overmix the dough because it can make scones dense instead of tender.
- Swapping milk for heavy cream creates a softer crumb and more flavorful results.
- Press the dough lightly into a circle rather than kneading it. Gentle handling keeps the texture delicate.
- Cut straight down when slicing wedges. Avoid twisting your knife—this helps the scones rise evenly in the oven.
- Bake in a fully preheated oven to help the scones rise quickly and develop golden edges.
- Let them cool slightly before glazing.
- For extra tall scones, chill the shaped dough for 10 minutes before baking. This helps the butter stay cold longer and improves the rise.
If you enjoy baking with Bisquick, try these next:
- These easy Bisquick donuts are soft, sweet, and quick to make using baking mix, making them a great beginner-friendly treat for breakfast or dessert.
- If you love soft, fluffy textures, these 7Up biscuits with Bisquick bake up light and buttery with just a few simple ingredients.
They can turn out dry if the dough is overmixed, too much baking mix is added, or they are baked too long. Since Bisquick already contains flour and leavening, even a little extra mix can make the scones crumbly instead of soft and tender.
This refers to baking scones at a high temperature for about 15 minutes, which helps them rise quickly and develop a golden exterior while staying soft inside.
Most Bisquick scones bake in about 12–18 minutes depending on thickness.
Use cold butter and handle the dough as little as possible. Cold butter helps create a light, tender texture, while over-mixing can make scones dense instead of soft and flaky. For the best results, bake the scones in a fully preheated oven and avoid overworking the dough so they rise properly and develop golden edges with a soft interior.
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Bisquick Scones Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Bisquick Baking mix
- 3 ½ tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp butter cold, cubed into the size of peas
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 ½ tbsp vanilla bean paste or 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup powered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla bean paste
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spray an ungreased baking sheet, preferably without sides, with baking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: bisquick biscuit mix and sugar.
- Use a pastry blender or two forks to cut the cold butter into the flour mixture until the mixture is crumbly.
- Add in the wet ingredients: eggs, milk and vanilla bean paste.
- Bring together until a soft dough forms with a fork. You may need to finish bringing the dough together near the end with clean hands.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and press into an 8-inch circle.
- Cut the disc into 8 large scones with a sharp knife.
- Once the scones are cut, carefully place wedges them onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving 1”-2” between them for spreading.
- Place the baking sheet into the oven to bake for 18-20 minutes or until the scones are lightly golden brown and baked through.
- Once baked, remove the warm scones from the oven and place onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- While the scones are cooling, make the glaze. Whisk all of the ingredients together in a medium sized bowl until a smooth, thick glaze has formed.
- Once the scones have cooled, spoon the glaze onto the top of each one.
I’ve decided the last 3 ingredients are the glaze recipe.
Added rhubarb & doubled the recipe. These aren’t the consistency of scones at all but they’re not bad!think of them as bisquick biscuits woth extra sugar, bc that’s what they are.
In a pinch tho, they’ll do 🙂
@Wylde,
Thank you for your comment about the glaze – I was hunting all over the place to find it – thought I was slowly “losing it”.
I can’t wait to make these, they sound really good!
Jan
What if you want to add fruit?
You can! I would try dried fruit. Fresh may add too much moisture.
I love scones so will be trying these recipes. Thank you.
I hope you enjoy them!