Super Easy (and Impressive) Pumpkin Scones!!!

Hey guys! Sorry I am a day late but I was having too good of a weekend! Here is a quick and easy recipe to make pumpkin scones! Impress your friends by making these - they'll be asking for more - seriously my coworkers have already put in a request for another batch!! 

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees - hot hot hot! 

Start by mixing your dry ingredients:

-2 Cups of Flour 

-7 tablespoons sugar

-1 tbl baking powder

-1/2 tsp salt

-2 tsp pumpkin spice

Mix these in a large bowl and "cut in" 6 tablespoons of butter. To learn how to "cut in" check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RAONX3BZZU - Shout out to Betty!

After you cut in the butter - just like Betty says! I did it with a fork - use what you have!

Now mix your wet ingredients in a separate bowl:

-1/2 Cup of pumpkin

-1 egg

-3 TBL half+half

Tah-dah!

Now, mix you wet ingredients into your dry. At some point you may need to use your hands, since this is a think dough that you want to put into a ball. Here's what your hands might look like
(and yup thats me in my Sunday glory - there's worse things on Facebook..)

Plop out your dough onto a lightly floured cutting board. 

And roll it out into a circle or a rectangle.
A circle will give you 8 large scones a rectangle will give you 16 mini scones. 

Ok this is the tricky part. You want to cut three vertical cuts and one horizontal cut in the dough. Then, take each quadrant and cut a diagonal line to make triangles.
If you make large ones, just cut it like a pizza! 

Place your mini scones on a lightly floured baking sheet and bake for 14 minutes. 

Quick note: Apparently pumpkin is going to be expensive this year due to the wet summer.
Save what you don't use for another recipe! 

All cooked!

To make a simple icing, mix powdered sugar with a little bit of milk until you get a thick glaze - you only need a little milk in your powdered sugar. I just added some pumpkin spice to the left over glaze to make the stripy parts! Keep it simple! 

Yum!

Thank you all for checking in with my blog again! Check back next week for a request from my own DAD and even more pumpkin recipes! Have a great week!