Heart Shaped Scones

January 9, 2006 | Filed Under Breakfast, Baking 

I made scones, for the first time, this Monday morning. I got the recipe from Cindy’s Kitchen. Her original food blog is in French. Luckily, she started an English version so that now I can actually read the blog instead of simply admiring the delicious-looking photos.You can find the easy recipe for Flower Shaped Scones here. I had the ingredients and didn’t need to go shopping for anything, so I decided to make the scones for breakfast. I don’t have flower-shaped cookie cutters and used my heart-shaped ones.

Putting the ingredients together was easy, baking it was another story. I suppose my oven was too hot by the time I’d prepared the scones and put them in. Also, I cut my dough a little on the thin side and placed them on the lower rack. As a result the bottom of the scones burned very quickly — they all turned black! Yikes! Not good.

I wasn’t ready to give up. Since it was easy to put the ingredients together, I decided to try again and made a new batch. This time the scones turned out very well. I watched them closely in the oven and had no problems. They tasted really good.

I spread cream cheese and pineapple preserves (the preserves I used for some of the empanaditas) on my scones. Oh, they tasted good, especially when coming straight from the oven!

Thanks, Cindy, for the English version of your blog. It is much appreciated!

After my scones-making success, I’m now ready to make the scones that Fran prepared sometime ago — Cranberry Scones with Orange Glaze. Yummm! I’ve had my eye on that recipe for quite some time.

In the meantime, I’d like to extend a hearty welcome to Ivonne, who has started a new food blog called Cream Puffs in Venice. She’s started off with some really nice recipes and a glimpse of her interesting cookbook collection (over 90 and still counting), from which she’ll use for her blog. Go check it out. My future project will be to make cream puffs (and pretend I’m in Venice as I eat them!)! Yes!

Paz

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