Cranberry apricot scones

Hello, everybody!

We also made cranberry- apricot scones and they were a big hit!

Preheat the oven to 375F

The ingredients for the scones:

2 cups flour

1 tbs baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 tbs orange zest

5 tbs chilled butter

1.5 cups cranberries

1/2 cup dried apricots

1 cup whipping cream

The orange drizzle:

3 tbs butter

1.5 cup powdered sugar

3 tbs orange juice

So, as I said... cranberries. Delicious and packed full of antioxidants, and are high in fiber,vitamin C and K. Mine were frozen and a lot easier to chop.

 MMM. Dried apricots. I sent my teens to the store to get dried apricots but didn't specify how much. Instead of calling, they returned with two giant bags. YUMMY. I could hardly be mad, since they were so delicious. We snacked on them for a few days, completely ignoring our apples and pears.

 Mix the cranberries and apricots together.

 Add dry ingredients and cut in the chilled butter.

 Add the cream to the fruit.

 Looks terrible. I have faith this will be great! If it's not... I shall cry lots of tears.

 Mix in the dry ingredients with the fruit. I think we over stirred because it turned pink!

 Make 1 inch think disks.

 Hmmm... It smells delicious but I wasn't sure how this was going to taste.

 Cut it like a pizza.

 Lay out several inches apart.

 Crossing my fingers! Into the oven they go. Bake for 15 minutes. I checked them at ten and them seemed done, but I wanted to make sure they didn't fall to pieces, so I gave them another few minutes.

 With the orange drizzle...

 AMAZING! Even the pickiest eaters enjoyed these. My husband, who doesn't like sweets, thought they were really good. I think scones are more like pan dulce or the sweet bread he's used to. Also, the dried fruit gave it such a satisfying texture. Scones are soft and buttery, and the dried fruit was a great counterpoint.