Cranberry Scones

Inspired from Alton Brown's Scone Recipe with a little bit of minor changes:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter (cut in cubes)
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 egg
• handful of dried cranberries

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Mix well. Cut in butter and shortening (I like to mush it with my fingers instead of using a pastry blender).

In a separate bowl, combine cream with beaten egg then add to dry ingredients. Stir in fruit.

Turn dough out into a floured surface. Roll dough out and cut into 8 equal triangles (like pizza!).

Round the edges for a softer look and sprinkle with coarse sugar (we didn't have any on hand). Bake for 17 minutes or until brown.


This is a really soft, flaky, and not too sweet scone recipe. Very versatile too since you can exchange the dried cranberries with whatever you want. Next time, I'm adding chocolate chips :)