Happy Food Friday everyone!!

I hope you all are having an amazing day so far. My mom in law and sister in law {Bryony} are leaving today. BOO! I will miss them so much. They are so helpful and great company. You might remember the last time they were here, I mentioned that Bryony made some delicious scones for the family breakfast and how I mentioned I wanted her to do a Food Friday on them. Well, guess what? She and her amazing photog husband, David, whipped some up and took some pictures for us…..

Meet Bryony. She is Brandon’s sister. Isn’t she beautiful?

Hi everyone, this is Bryony! Here’s a super easy recipe for basic scones. You can customize the fillings {for example I used blueberries and lemon in these} any way you like.  Previously I have used cranberries, almonds, strawberries, blackberries….really the possibilities are endless, so just have fun!

The main ingredients:

Scones

2 Cups All Purpose Flour

1/3 Cup white sugar

1 tea baking powder

1/2 tea salt

1/4 tea baking soda

1/2 Cup of cold butter {1 stick}

1/2 Cup Sour Cream {you can also sub with yogurt: plain or flavored greek or regular yogurt works fine}

1 egg

1 tea vanilla

Frosting:

2 Cups powdered sugar

1/4 Cup lemon juice

1/4 tea vanilla

2 tea melted butter

lemon zest

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine all dry ingredients in a food processor. If you don’t have a food processor, you can still do this recipe by using a bowl and a pastry cutter. Slice butter into cubes and put on top.

With food processor on pulse mix until it looks like this. ha. Sorry not really familiar with the proper terms.

In a separate bowl, combine yogurt and egg with a whisk. Then combine both wet and dry in a large bowl.

Pat dough into a ball until it looks like this, and put on a floured baking sheet

Flatten ball with your hands and add filling of choice. I used about 1 pint of blueberries and added lemon zest on top. 

Fold dough over filling with floured fingers.
Using your hands, flatten out the dough again so it looks like this, making sure to take care with filling so it doesn’t pop out. I did not flip this over, the flattening blends in the edges.

Now cut your scones in desired shapes. This can make anywhere between 8-20 depending on your size scones.

Separate scones for baking, leaving about 1″ space and brush with melted butter. This is optional, but I think it makes a nice golden color and adds flavor.

Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees, they will look like this with edges slightly browned.

While scones are cooling, make frosting: pour all frosting ingredients in bowl and whisk together

if frosting is too thick, add more lemon juice, if too runny add more powdered sugar. I pour my frosting into a ziploc bag, cut the edge off and pipe on top, but you could probably use a spoon as well, depending on consistency.

We love these at our house. This is my boy Lincoln. Super happy camper that we are making these together….

Thank you everyone for joining me. Hope you get a chance to try them this weekend!!

Love, Bryony

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