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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