Cranberry Scones

For some reason I have been on a scone kick lately.  As a way to get through the daily grind, I usually treat myself once a week to a coffee and a grab-n-go breakfast.  While oatmeal is my usual food of choice, lately I have been leaning towards scones.  Some of my favorites are the  raspberry white chocolate scone from Caribou Coffee or the blueberry scone from Starbucks.  These are both great choices as they are large, pillowy, sweet and overall delicious!  While I enjoy eating them, prior to November of this year, I had never tried making them myself.  For my first attempt I wanted to recreate the Caribou Coffee raspberry white chocolate scone.  I went to the store to buy the necessary ingredients and was not able to find raspberries, so I made the choice on the spot to replace them with blackberries.  While at the time I thought this was a great option, it turns out that if you are not careful when folding the berries into the dough, the scones will come out purple.  Now, this would have been fine for Halloween, but my plan was to give them to my sister and brother-in-law who were recently going through a hard time dealing with the death of a good friend.  Needless to say, I was a little embarrassed when I handed over the purple scones as a gift.  Even though I was not pleased with the outcome, my sister was very gracious and said they tasted great.  So, here is my second attempt at scones. I’m hoping to redeem myself this time by sticking to dried cranberries so that these babies won’t turn out red (even though that would be festive for this time of year).  Enjoy!

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Introduction

Hi I'm Brianne!  I’m not one to brag.  In fact the very thought of thinking anything I can create is better than anyone else’s is exhausting.  Baking has been a passion of mine for a while now, but I never went public with it.  Like I said, I don’t like to brag and I’ve never had any professional training in baking.  Baking to me is an art form.  I honestly would prefer for anything I bake to look better than it actually tastes.  That was until my husband came along and reassured me that not only do my creations look good, but they generally taste good too. 

My baking addiction began in the shadows of the cake pop craze.  While surfing the web in June of 2009, I stumbled upon the Bakerella blog and shortly after created my very first cake pop bouquet, which I gifted to my parents for their wedding anniversary.  Since then, I continued to make cake pops, gourmet cupcakes and sweet breads.  In 2011, I married the love of my life and it just so happens that he is a huge fan of cookies.  Cookies?  Of all things… the one thing I am terrible at baking… cookies.  They never turn out golden brown, chewy and as pillowy, as I would like them.  They end up resembling blackened pancakes that are best suited for dipping in coffee to take away the taste of charcoal.  I blame the altitude. 

While blogging has never really been my thing, I have finally caved-in to the request of my husband and the many friends and family who have on various occasions asked where I buy my cupcakes from.  Well, here you go… I don’t buy them, I bake them.  Hopefully this blog will be the start of a glorious journey as I continue to create cake pops, cupcakes, sweet breads and yes, cookies too.      

-Brianne