This week’s SMS was chosen by Robin of Lady Craddock’s Bakery: orange scented scones! I don’t make scones too often so it was a nice change of pace to try these this week. I really wanted to incorporate blueberries into the scones but I only had frozen. My head was telling me not to do it because I knew the berries would probably bleed (no matter how many tricks I tried to avoid it) and I’d wind up with blue scones. My stomach didn’t listen to my head and, well, my blue scones are now on display for you all to see 🙂
Despite their appearance, the scones were pretty tasty. I really enjoyed the texture – they had a nice, light crumb. I used the zest of an entire orange so the orange flavor was plenty prominent and worked well with the blueberries. My main complaint was that the scones weren’t sweet enough. I will definitely add more sugar when I make these again.
Many thanks to Robin for her selection this week! You can find the recipe here; be sure to stop by the SMS site to see how the other bakers fared this week.
Since I feel guilty about my blue scone photos, I’m going to share some additional pics. Yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day here and I dragged Shane to an orchard for some apple picking – a quintessential fall activity here in New England.
The smallest bag they sold at the orchard held about 10-12 pounds of apples so expect LOTS of apple recipes over the next few weeks!
We also picked some raspberries while we were there. I’m not sure I’ve ever picked raspberries before but I really enjoyed it. It forced me to face my fear of bees because they were buzzing all over the bushes!
I’m super excited that fall officially arrives this week and I think this orchard trip was the perfect way to kick it off. We’ll no doubt be visiting our local orchard within a few weeks to pick up some pumpkins but this weekend Shane just sat among them 🙂
Lemon Bars
Glazed Grapefruit Cake
Orange Sherbet
Meyer Lemon Pound Cake
Love the pictures, even the blue scone ones. It always amazes me how blue the dough can be and lots of the color somehow bakes out. I’m jealous of your NE weather – are those long sleeves I see? Some day I’ll be wearing those. Look forward to the apple recipes!
Great photos…of the food and you at the orchard. I copied down the scone recipe to give it a try next weekend from the host’s site, now I will need to get blueberries b/c these look even better! Those raspberries are gorgeous!
although the scones don t look that nice I think they must be delicious. How many nice fruit you collected.
The blue scones look so pretty! even though they’re blue.
Oh, I just love apple recipes. I have quite a few since my mom loved giving me apples and I don’t particularly like eating them.
Your scones look gorgeous, and not so very blue. I also thought they could have been a little sweeter, but that was my only complaint as well. I love apple picking, I’m hoping to make it to the orchard in the next couple of weeks. Looking forward to all of your apple recipes! Those raspberries are beautiful, can’t wait to see what you do with them!
I love the photos of the freshly picked raspberries! We are on our way into summer and I cant wait for fresh berries again 🙂
Those pics looks great! I just started loving blueberries this year, so I love this idea.
Thanks for sharing your orchard pictures.
I think the blueberries are a great addition. Your scones look wonderful. I loved this recipe and found it to be very easy too! I posted a wonderful recipe for Praline Apple bread a few days ago. It’s fantastic and you could use some of those great apples!
I think your blue scones look delicious!
I love the idea of adding blueberries to the scones!
We went to an apple orchard a couple of weeks ago. Also, we have a tree in our backyard.
I wish we had somewhere around here that we could get raspberries that look as wonderful as those!
Blueberry scones sound super! I should have added something in mine. I wasnt too crazy about this recipe.
I cant wait to go apple picking!
Love the blueberries. I have used them with lemon but never tried orange. Envy you being so close to an apple orchard. Makes me miss upstate NY.
I think the scones look beautiful and I am sure the blueberries added great flavor. What fun pics of your apple orchard adventure! Can’t wait to see what you make with your wonderful produce.
Blueberry/orange scones sound wonderful. Those raspberries look amazing!
I love the blue blueberry scones! 🙂 And the weather and fruit looks great!!
I love that you added blueberries to these. It’s a versatile dough and your scones look awesome.
The blueberry/orange scones look yummy! I agree, frozen blueberries do not make for photogenic baked goods. It’s great seeing the gorgeous orchard pictures too. Living in California, we don’t get to see the seasons change with the magnitude they do in New England; it seems really neat.
Maybe the color on my monitor is way off, but your scones don’t look that blue to me! I made a glaze with powdered sugar and the juice from the orange I zested, and poured that over the scones after they had cooled for a bit. It added just the right amount of sweetness.
those scones look amazing – and love those orchard pics too!
Great pictures! Your “blue scones” are quite pretty. We are going apple picking tomorrow with Vincent’s preschool and I’m psyched about having lots of tasty apples around. Yeah fall!!
i happen to think your blue scones look fab! 😉
and bring on the apple recipes!! i need to find me a local orchard!
I think your blue scones look wonderful 😀
Katie xox
Lucky you to have apple orchards to close. And raspberries too.
Your scones came out beautifully. I love making scones, but don’t get to make them as often as I would like. These look really good.
Applesauce, Apple cider, Apple scones, tart, pie. You could do it all now!!!
Thanks for baking along with me this week! Your scones look great and I love your apple pictures; I am going apple picking in two weeks. But I am totally jealous with the raspberries.