Saturday, 13 August 2011

• Cookies and Cream Scones Recipe

  This is a guest post from CakeSpy.

  

  Reading is totally sweet. We all know that. But novels are even sweeter when they involve baking recipes! A few years ago, I was charmed by Laura Shaefer's young adult novel The Teashop Girls, about three friends who are trying to save the main character's grandmother's tea shop in Madison, WI; now, there's a follow-up novel entitled The Secret Ingredient, which is a sweet but not saccharine continuation of the tale of Annie and her friends growing up and learning their place in the world--this time centering around a scone-making blogging competition.

  

  
  

  

  and--bonus! Here's a recipe for one of the scones from the book.

  Cookies and Cream Scones

  Adapted from The Secret Ingredient

  Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 cup chopped sandwich cookies (I used about 8 coarsely chopped berry oreos, because they were pink in the middle)
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/4 cup milk

  Procedure

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.
  2. Mix the dry ingredients together first; cut in the butter. Stir in the beaten egg and the cookie pieces. 
  3. Slowly add the buttermilk to form a thick dough. Knead the dough on a board, roll to a 1-inch thickness, and cut the dough into 2-inch rounds or triangles.
  4. Place each piece on a greased cookie sheet and brush the tops with the milk. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown.

  
  

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