More Baking?

Yes! Can you believe I did more baking today? I've been wanting to make Lavender Scones for about 3 months and I FINALLY got around to making them today. I had wanted to perfect this recipe and make these scones award winning perfection so I could enter them into my town fair. Well, that was a bit ambitious and did not happen. After all, I made them for the first time today and needed to submit them by 9 PM tonight! (Our town fair is tomorrow!)

A little souvenir from our family reunion this past summer

Sifted flour, baking powder, butter, sugar and lavender

Roll it out

Finished product...not quite the culinary perfection I was dreaming of...

Lavender Scones

2 cups flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

6 Tbsp. butter

3 Tbsp. sugar

2 tsp. dried culinary lavender, chopped

1 egg

1/2 cup buttermilk

SIFT flour and baking powder together. CUT the butter into flour mixture until it has the consistency of bread crumbs. STIR in sugar and lavender.

In separate bowl, BEAT egg and buttermilk, then ADD to mixture, FORMING dough.

PLACE dough onto well-floured surface and SHAPE into a circle. PAT down dough until it is about 1 inch thick. Use a floured cutter to stamp out 12 scones. PLACE scones on parchment-lined baking sheet and sprinkle with a little sugar.

BAKE at 425 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. SERVE warm with jam with preserves.

Now would you like to know which steps I forgot to follow when making my scones? I did not chop the lavender and I forgot to sprinkle the tops of the dough with sugar before baking. I told you I wasn't good at following recipes! If I really want to submit a baking entry into the fair next year I'd better start practicing NOW!!!