mo' cranberry!

When I bought my cranberries the other day, I had 2 recipe ideas floating around in my head...cranberry/orange, and cranberry/white chocolate.  Somehow, I ended up making gingerbread cranberry muffins, which were awesome, but I still have the other things stuck in my head.  So I decided to do something about it.  Orange Cranbery Scones! I love scones. (Is there a bread I don't like?)  I saw this recipe, and figured I could take it and substitute the cranberries and orange zest for the lemon and blueberry.  And that's what I did...

Orange Cranberry Scones

adapted from Whole Wheat Lemon Blueberry Scones from Chocolate & Carrots

You should check out the awesome pictures on her site!

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup cake flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

3 tablespoons brown sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter Smart Balance 50/50, cut into tiny pieces (1/4 inch or smaller cubes)

zest of one medium sized orange (about 1 tablespoon)

3/4 -1 cup cranberries

1/2 cup plain 0% fat greek yogurt *I only had regular plain yogurt, so I reduced my milk a little

1/2 cup skim milk *I added the juice of my orange I zested, then added skim milk to make a little less than 1/2 cup


Directions

Preheat oven to 425°.

Combine flours, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix until well blended.

Add butter to dry ingredients and mix until butter is spread throughout.

Add cranberries and orange zest and gently stir.

Gently mix in milk/juice and yogurt until you’re able to switch to kneading it with your hands.**

Form dough into an 8 inch circle and cut into eight slices.

Separate slices and place on a silicone mat covered baking sheet

Bake for 15 minutes or until light brown.

**My dough was too sticky to knead, and I had to add more flour (maybe a 1/4 cup?). I think it's probably due to the changes I made. The regular yogurt is thinner than greek, so maybe I should have reduced my milk even more. 

 

I was worried these were not going to turn out, and they are not the most beautiful scones, but they ended up being really good!  I added a drizzle of orange juice with confectioners sugar on top, b/c cranberries are pretty tart. It just depends on how sweet you like things.  Of course, I had to banish some of them to the freezer to prevent me from eating them all.  I'm going to end up with enough baked goods to feed a small village stored in the freezer!

 

However, to everyone's surprise, I have a NON-bread item to post later in the week :) One can not survive on bread alone.  Okay, I think I probably could, but my husband is diabetic, so he really can't! Mr. Terrible Two has become a bread junkie too. He's on a cinnamon toast kick right now, so he is constantly saying (ALL DAY LONG) "I want toast!" (except it sounds like "i wan toes!"). 

**Mo'Betta's version of cinnamon toast - toasted whole wheat bread with a little spray butter and a light sprinkle of cinnamon sugar ;) It can't be too bad for him!

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Also linking up for Ingredient Spotlight - Cranberries at Eat at Home