Erika Elyn: First Recipe Post! Yay!

First Recipe Post! Yay!

by ErikaElynCreations on Thursday, September 22, 2011

This is my first recipe post! The first thing you should know is that I am no cook. I'm just a 24 year old looking for some good food. And story begins like this... Digging through my mother's pantry one day I found a box of Rooibos. If you don't know what this is, it's only the best tea ever. I once was strictly a earl grey girl, but then in college I had these two friends, they we're brothers, who would often make me Rooibos and scones. I was hooked. So when I found this box of tea, I just had to bake scones.

CINNAMON CHIP SCONES:
12 Servings
25 min Prep Time
10 min Bake Time

Ingredients>
+3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
+1/3 Sugar
+3 Tablespoon Sugar
+2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
+1/2 baking soda
+1/2 teaspoon salt
+3/4 butter
+1 cup buttermilk
+1 1/3 cup cinnamon chips
+2 tablespoon butter melted

Directions>>
+Preheat over at 425 degrees
+In a large bowl, combine flour , 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Cube butter, and add to mixture. (I let the butter soften a tad before adding). Stir in buttermilk just until moist. Then add cinnamon chip. (I wrote 1 1/3 cups, but add as little or as much as you like).

+Knead 10-12 times on a floured surface or until no longer sticky. Divide dough in half and roll into a 7 inch circle. (I just pressed it into a circle with my hands because I'm lazy and didn't want to dirty a rolling pin). Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with 3 tablespoons sugar.

+Cut circles into 6 wedges and place onto a ungreased baking sheet. Put in oven at 425 for 10-13 minutes or until lighty brown.

There you go, Cinnamon Scones. This was the first time making these. What would I do differently? Maybe divide the dough up into 3 parts and instead of two. The scones were a bit large for me, so this would make them smaller. But they tasted great! I tried these with a cinnamon butter, and also an apple butter. Even better.