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Funfetti Cake Mix Scones are an easy scone recipe that starts with a cake mix! These have chocolate chips and sprinkles and are such a fun treat for breakfast or dessert on a birthday or all year long.
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Cake Mix Scones with Sprinkles
Take your favorite cake mix flavor and make scones! These are funfetti (yellow cake with sprinkles) flavor and they’re SO fun.
- The cake mix makes them EASY as ever!
- The cake mix keeps them soft for days – never dry!
- Add whatever sprinkles or mix ins you like
- Use whatever flavor cake mix!
Ingredients in Cake Mix Scones
- Funfetti Cake Mix – you could also use plain yellow cake mix or any flavor. I prefer Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines brands
- Flour – you just need a bit of extra flour to take these from cake to scones.
- Cold Butter – dice it then place it back in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
- Milk – heavy cream or regular milk is best to keep these moist.
- Sprinkles – because they’re fun and pretty!
- Chocolate Chips – optional but love chocolate in everything!
How to make scones out of cake mix
- Stir cake mix and flour in a large bowl. Add cold buttered use a pastry cutter to work the butter into the flour mixture until it is crumbly.
- Create a well in the center of the mixture and pour the milk in the center. Stir gently, keeping the dough in the center of the bowl, until the milk is incorporated.
- Stir only until the mixture comes together (there will be small chunks of butter still, and that’s okay).
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Sprinkle a small bit of flour over the dough and flour your hands. Turn the dough out onto the prepared cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Gently press the dough to flatten into a circle that is an 8 inch diameter. I made mine into a heart, so you can really make whatever shape you want.
- Use a greased knife to cut into wedges. Top with sprinkles and gently press them to make them stick.
How long do you bake scones?
Bake scones at 400 degrees for about 20-25 minutes or until they’re light golden and cooked through. Don’t over bake them or they might turn out dry.
Recipe Swap
- Use carrot cake mix or spice cake mix to make new scone flavors.
- You can make lemon scones with lemon cake mix!
- Use fun different color sprinkles for Christmas or the 4th of July.
- Add a cream cheese icing on top for a delicious twist.
FAQs
I like scones that are fluffy and soft so using cake mix or pudding mix makes scones perfect!
By adding some extra flour, milk and cold butter you can turn your favorite cake into a scone recipe.
Store scones in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Freeze these for up to 3 months in an airtight container.
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Funfetti Cake Mix Scones Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups (161g) Funfetti Cake Mix
- 1 ¼ cups (155g) all-purpose flour plus more for dusting
- ½ cup cold unsalted butter
- 1 cup milk (or heavy whipping cream)
- ½ cup (85g) chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons rainbow sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a cookie sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. Do not grease.
- Stir cake mix and flour in a large bowl. Add cold butter (be sure to dice it into small chunks first) to the flour mixture. Use a pastry cutter to work the butter into the flour mixture, until it is crumbly.
- Create a well in the center of the mixture and pour the milk in the center. Stir gently, keeping the dough in the center of the bowl, until the milk is incorporated. Stir only until the mixture comes together (there will be small chunks of butter still, and that’s okay). Stir in chocolate chips.
- Sprinkle a small bit of flour over the dough and flour your hands. Turn the dough out onto the prepared cookie sheet. Gently press the dough to flatten into a circle that is an 8 inch diameter. I made mine into a heart, so you can really make whatever shape you want.
- Use a greased knife to cut into wedges. Top with sprinkles and gently press them to make them stick.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Recipe Nutrition
Make Scones with sprinkles! This scone recipe is soft and they taste like cake batter! Funfetti scones are the perfect breakfast.
Wow! Who knew you could make scones out of cake mix! What can cake mix NO do?! ๐ And I can’t stand dry scones!
I know, right? It’s like magical or something. ๐ These were totally soft and (pardon the word but…) moist!
Funfetti Scones make any morning brighter. Also the ease of making them with cake mix is brilliant.
Thanks Nicole! They were super easy!
These look amazing! And how fun would they be for a birthday breakfast? Thanks for another great recipe!!
Tonii
Thanks Tonii! I would love them for my birthday! ๐
Gah! These look great! I love making scones… which reminds me I should make some on my day off tomorrow! btw… these look like a perfect birthday treat!
They totally would be! Thanks Katie!
These are so stinkin cute! I love SCONES! My family is from England and the staples in my house are scones and shortbread. My mom always joked we would one day open 31 flavors of scones ๐ Never had a funfetti or cake mix one so I will definitely have to give these a try to share with my mom!
Thanks Elizabeth! I need to try more flavors, I like your moms idea! ๐
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