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Cinnamon Scones

In Cooking on February 28, 2009 at 5:01 pm

dscn0100My family loves to have Scones on the weekends. Usually I make Chocolate Chip but I was out today. So I decided to make Cinnamon Scones instead. They are pretty easy and out shine anything you might get at Starbucks.

Ingredients

2 Cups Flour (I use white)
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
8 TBS butter
4 TBS heavy cream (you can use milk)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 C plus a tablespoon sugar
1/2 tsp Cinnamon

Pre heat the oven to 450 F (prejeat baking stone too if you have one). Combine 1TSP sugar, flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Cut in 4 TBS butter until crumbly. Mix cream, eggs and vanilla in a bowl. Mix the dry and wet ingredients to combine.

In another bowl combine the 1/4 sugar and cinnamon. Add 4 Tbs butter and cut/mash together so that you have small chunks of cinnamon coated butter. Fold this into the dough. Do not over work as you want chunks of butter in your dough. Form the dough into a ball and cut in half. Take each half and cut into forths. You should end up with eight scones.

Place the scones on a baking stone or cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool slightly and serve.

Baking Bread

In Cooking on February 3, 2009 at 12:05 am

breadI found a great recipe for homemade bread over at SoCal Pastry Chef.

It was pretty easy but I have never had great luck with my bread. I did have honey on had so I used some sugar and I didn’t have bread flour so I added a little bit of gluten. The bread did taste good but was heavy and a little too moist.

Next time I am going to use the honey and maybe adjust the flour and knead it a little more. I think part of the problem might also be my house is pretty cold and it takes longer to rise. I will try again and experiment a little. Anybody out there have tips for high altitute bread baking? Let me know.