Hello, everybody! Mary Jane here with a repost recipe. I'm so bummed because I just spent the last hour trying to get my pictures to upload and... nada! Zilch!! It's a no-go. I'm not sure what the problem is.
WE participated in a Farmer's Market in a town near us and had a great time (even thought it was close to 100F- yuck). The kids made so many cool crafts, cookies, brownies, paintings, and I brought my books. We met a lot of great people!
We also made cranberry- apricot scones and they were a big hit! So... I guess I'll repost that recipe here. They were just as good as they were in 2015!
Preheat the oven to 375F
The ingredients for the scones:
2 cups flour
1 tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs orange zest
5 tbs chilled butter
1.5 cups cranberries
1/2 cup dried apricots
1 cup whipping cream
The orange drizzle:
3 tbs butter
1.5 cup powdered sugar
3 tbs orange juice
So, as I said... cranberries. Delicious and packed full of antioxidants, and are high in fiber,vitamin C and K. Mine were frozen and a lot easier to chop.
MMM. Dried apricots. I sent my teens to the store to get dried apricots but didn't specify how much. Instead of calling, they returned with two giant bags. YUMMY. I could hardly be mad, since they were so delicious. We snacked on them for a few days, completely ignoring our apples and pears.Mix the cranberries and apricots together.
Add dry ingredients and cut in the chilled butter.
Add the cream to the fruit.
Looks terrible. I have faith this will be great! If it's not... I shall cry lots of tears.
Mix in the dry ingredients with the fruit. I think we over stirred because it turned pink!
Make 1 inch think disks.
Hmmm... It smells delicious but I wasn't sure how this was going to taste.
Cut it like a pizza.
Lay out several inches apart.
Crossing my fingers! Into the oven they go. Bake for 15 minutes. I checked them at ten and them seemed done, but I wanted to make sure they didn't fall to pieces, so I gave them another few minutes.
With the orange drizzle...
AMAZING! Even the pickiest eaters enjoyed these. My husband, who doesn't like sweets, thought they were really good. I think scones are more like pan dulce or the sweet bread he's used to. Also, the dried fruit gave it such a satisfying texture. Scones are soft and buttery, and the dried fruit was a great counterpoint.
So, that's all for now! Be sure to visit my authors pages at Virginia Carmichael or Mary Jane Hathaway to find all my latest book news!
Oooh -- your farmer's market booth sounds amazing -- but yuck to the temps. Hope you were in the shade! And had a lot of sunscreen!
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't there something so...decadent...about scones? I only make them about once a year...well used to when I was still at work and we did a volunteer breakfast for volunteers in June. These look fabulous! Hmmm...maybe I could make them for the church eats table sometime. I'm sure they'd be a hit.
OH, yum!! I want these today!
ReplyDeleteOh, these look so good! I'm sorry for your 100 degree heat. We've actually been blessed with unseasonably cool weather - perfect for baking scones!
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