Betty Crocker recently released a Walmart exclusive “Bridgerton” line of box mixes. If you are unfamiliar, Bridgerton is a TV show set in the early 1800’s. I know of the show but haven’t seen it myself so I can’t tell you the significance of the baked goods they chose to incorporate into this product line but I love the old timey vibes of the packaging and the old verbiage used on the recipe card image on the back of the box, it’s very aesthetic as well. This line has a petite sponge cake, petite strawberry scone kit, and a creme puff kit. Today we are going to dive into the strawberry scone mix and see how the product comes out.
I haven’t seen many scone mixes on the market so I’m glad to see Betty Crocker diving into the scone mixes to make them a more accessible dessert. They are definitely a tedious process when made homemade so I am hoping this is a good shortcut. However due to the popular TV show branding I am skeptical that this line of mixes is going to be a cash gab rather than high quality but let’s find out.
This box contains the scone mix, the jam filling, and a cookie cutter for cutting the dough. The recipe calls for milk and melted butter to be added to the mix, and it comes together like a nice thick dough. However it tasted awful like a gross biscuit dough and the strawberry bits are like hard pellets that remind me of bunny food. The pellets were visually unappetizing and tasted like a sour hard crunchy candy. Take all of this information with a grain of salt because you aren’t supposed to eat the dough. The image on the box shows the strawberry pieces melting so I am expecting that to be the case rather than hard crunchy pieces of strawberry flavor.
Next you roll out the dough and cut it with the cookie cutter provided. The recipe recommends the dough be rolled to 3/4 inch thick but they don’t say how many you are supposed to make, it only claims to make 6 servings. I rolled it out, probably too thin, and got 12 scones cut out and a bit left over. I’m not sure if it was way too thin or if 2 scones could be considered a serving in this case. I fit all 12 on the pan and put them in the oven at 375 like the recipe called for. The box says to bake the scones for 16 to 18 minutes and I found at 18 minutes the bottoms started browning so I pulled them out despite the rest of the scone being light in color still. I must say, I am impressed by this Betty Crocker product providing an arcuate bake time, it’s very rare that we see that these days.
Out of the oven, it was clear that these scones did not spread or grow in size at all when baking. Keep that in mind when rolling out the dough, the thicker you roll it out, the better. The strawberry bits had definitely melted and these looked really good. Once cooled, I started to cut each one in half as instructed to be able to fill it with jam. I found the scones were very crumbly and I destroyed about half of them by cutting them in half. I’m not sure if a thicker scone, like intended, would hold it’s shape better, but it was so much of a disaster I had to include a photo of the carnage.
The strawberry jam just tasted like artificial strawberry flavor. I spread a thin layer of jam in between each scone and had enough jam for all of them. They looked good, and very similar to the photos, except much tinier than expected. I know they call this a petite strawberry scone but it is so small.
The consistency of these scones was fantastic. The flavor of the jam and the melted strawberry bits complimented each other perfectly and added the right amount of sweetness to these scones. It was an enjoyable dessert and it’s definitely easier than making them homemade. In a pinch, this is a great short cut mix and hits the spot for a good scone. I am looking forward to giving the other Bridgerton mixes a try.
I love how this comes with a cookie cutter. It’s the perfect size so you know exactly how big to make it and it makes it so anyone can bake these without any extra materials needed at home. It’s not flimsy, it’s a normal plastic cookie cutter which you can keep and reuse for other things.
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