Lemon Berry Scones & Cheesy Scones

As many of you know, I love volunteering my time for charity. This is the second year that I’ve been the co-chair for the  United Way campaign where I work. Co-chairing aside…I always run our bake sale. I love baking plus I love giving to charity so it’s a match made in heaven.

Unfortunately, this year I failed to realize that I would be living in a rental condo that is a bit *ahem* lacking in the baking supplies department.  I decided to try my hand at making scones using my friend Julie’s recipe. So off I went to the grocery store to buy those things I take for granted since they’re always in my pantry. Like flour, sugar, salt, baking soda & a lemon zester. What I didn’t realize was that I didn’t check to see if we had measuring cups.

So let’s recap…here are all the things I did to these poor defenceless scones:

• I had to use a Pampered Chef prep bowl as a measuring cup b/c I had no liquid cup.
• I had to figure out what sizes the measuring cups in the condo were b/c they weren’t labeled.
• I kept setting the timer for 10 hours instead of 10 minutes (I did this at least 3 times).
• I didn’t realize that I only had one cookie sheet so I had to improvise and use a glass baking dish.
• and on and on…

Now you see why I called the little scones that could! Regardless of my goofs, they turned out pretty good. I would tweak a few things if I make them again but overall….yum.

Lemon Berry Scones

Cheesy Scones

 What are your best near (or total) baking disasters?