Lavender Scones

I promised to share more recipes.

Here is the recipe I used for my lavender scones.

3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2-4 Tablespoons sugar
8 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk or half and half soured with lemon juice
2-3 Tablespoons of lavender - I used some organically grown by my neighbor. I had dried them and just rubbed the flowers until it fell off and I removed stems and used the lavender.
A little lemon zest and a little lemon flavoring

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 450.
Blend the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and rub in the butter. In a small bowl beat together the egg and buttermilk. Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the liquid. Mix together for a few seconds. Turn out on a floured board and knead gently and roll out just over 1/2 inch thickness. You may want to make a few circle about 6 inches around and cut wedges with a pizza cutter or cut out your scones out with a biscuit or cookie cutter. I used a flower shaped cutter and made small scones.
Place the scones on a lightly floured cookie sheet and bake about 12 -15 for full size or less for the mini ones. Cool slightly and place in a cloth lined basket and serve with tea. I had lavender earl grey tea. Yum!!

Hint: If you need to make these a day ahead warm them slightly in the oven or microwave before serving.


I frosted them with powder sugar, lemon flavoring, and meringue powder frosting.

I really like these a lot. After the response I received from my family I was surprised the ladies enjoyed them so much. It is hard for some to consider eating a flower that they usually bathe with:)

Lavender Scones, Tea Party, and Cookie Exchange.

This is the time of year that I really get into baking. I feel like I have been baking for weeks. Sarah, Hannah, and Esther also help me. Sarah bakes for our visitor baskets we deliver to first time visitors at church. For several weeks our ladies class has been preparing packages for our college students and deployed military so I have been baking for that. I also have several children with birthdays in November. So I have been baking a lot.

Tonight for our monthly Ladies Night Out we held a tea party /cookie exchange. We had poetry, prayer, games, prizes, beautifully decorated tables, good food, china tea cups and tea. Several ladies came with really wonderful hats and received prizes for going the extra mile. We had several varieties of quiche, scones, a wonderful salad, and cookies and tea. I made an asparagus-onion quiche, lavender scones, and lemon poppy seed scones. I also shared my lavender tea.

For our cookie exchange we each brought 4.5 dozen cookies (54 cookies of one type). We each put 6 cookies on the dessert table and 4 dozen on the exchange table. After all of our fun and games we went by tables and each took a container. We went down the row of cookies and took 2 from each tray to make our trays to take home. This is so much quicker and easier than having a couple of ladies divide the cookies and package them. There was a wonderful array of cookies. A friend and I went together. We decided to make Fruitcake cookies and Molasses Cookies. We each came home with a tray of assorted cookies like the one pictured above.

I will try to post some recipes soon from our Ladies Night Out and cookie exchange.