Wednesday, March 26, 2014


Maple glazed cinnamon chip scones

6 tblspns of room temp butter or butter flavored crisco, if using crisco add a tsp of water with it, 2 cups of unbleached flour, or flour, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1 tsp of baking powder, 1/2 tspn of baking soda and 1/2 tsp of salt cut the butter into the flour to make pea size pieces, in a measuring cup mix 2/3 cups of plain yogurt or buttermilk, with 2 large egg yolks and 1 tspn of maple syrup or extract, add the wet mixture to the flour mix and fold together to form a dough, here you can add either nuts 1/2 cup or of cinnamon chips, after folding the dough place on a floured surface and form dough into an 8 inch disk, cut out 8 wedges and you may cut the 8 wedges in half to make them smaller, while doing this pre heat oven to 400℉, place wedges on a cookie sheet an inch apart and bake for 16 min until cake tester comes out clean and are golden.  Make the glaze with 4 tblspns of butter, 1/2 cup of brown sugar and 2 tblspns of whipping cream cook over stove until well melted butter and then add1/2 tspn of molasses and fold in 2/3 cups of powdered sugar to make it like a frosting, this will be put on slightly cooled scones.  ENJOY

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