Easy Scones

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 2/3 cup dried cranberries
• 1 teaspoon orange extract

Recipe

• 1 i never keep buttermilk on hand, so i add 1 tablespoon lemon juice to 2/3 cup 2% milk and let it sit while i prepare the rest of the recipe.
• 2 mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, add the milk and stir a few strokes, add the extract to the melted butter and add that to the mix. add in cranberries. mix just enough to combine ingredients then let sit a few minutes.
• 3 i put parchment paper on a cookies sheet and dust with flour. push the dough out of the bowl onto the floured paper. dust the top of the sticky dough and then pat down/shape into a round "pattie" about 1 inch thick. grease pizza cutter and cut into triangular (pizza slice) pieces before baking. (you will have to cut them again after baking.).
• 4 the original recipe called for 8 minutes at 400 degrees f. i like my scones a little browned, i always go about 5 minutes longer, but that's my oven.
• 5 *you can vary the flavor of different batches of scones by using blueberries, sliced or toasted almonds or chocolate chips. i always use orange extract. it gives it a fresh, bright complementary flavor to go with the fruit, nuts, chips or whatever you decide to flavor your scones with.