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| Blueberry scones closest, chocolate chip scones farther. |
I've just been craving scones, so this seemed a good idea. Easy, pretty quick, and versatile.
You'll need (for 8 good sized scones):
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (or another nice seasoning, depending upon your add-ins)
- dash salt
- 3/4 cups butter (at room temperature)
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup half 'n half (if you don't have half 'n half, just sub milk)
- something tasty to add.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Combine dry ingredients
- Cut in butter using a pastry cutter, fork, hands, or food processor. Easiest if you cut the butter into smaller pieces before adding.
- In a measuring cup, beat together egg & milk
- Make a well in the dry mixture and gradually add egg & milk mixture. You likely will not use all of the liquid mixture. Add it little bits at a time, mix in using a fork, and just keep adding until moist. The consistency should be conducive to rolling out.
- Add your goodies. I added blueberries to some and chocolate chips to others. Cranberries and orange zest is a good choice. If you want something not so sweet, try dill or cardamom.
- You can either roll out the dough and cut it into triangle pieces or just grab it by the handful and shape it into triangles (I chose the latter).
- Bake on a greased cookie sheet for 15 minutes.
- Enjoy for breakfast, brunch, mid-morning snack, mid-afternoon snack.
