Cranberry Orange Scones

I've been wanting to mix cranberry and orange together for so long but my husband was allergic to orange up until last year. It was a strange allergy and it all of a sudden disappeared! I looked all over for a scone recipe, I usually just do your basic scones but I wanted to add some whole wheat flour and the orange and cranberry. I decided to just wing it and I think they turned out pretty awesome!

Ingredients:

1 C all purpose flour

3/4 C whole wheat flour

3 T sugar

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 orange zested

1/3 C butter

1 egg, beaten

6-8 T milk
1/2 C dried cranberries

Directions:

Heat oven to 400°

Mix flours, sugar, baking powder, salt, and zest together. Cut in cold butter with pastry blender until it resembles fine crumbs. Fold in egg, I use a rubber spatula for this, and then add in milk 2 tablespoons at a time. I added some flax seed to my scones so they needed 2 extra tablespoons in the end, I used the full 8. You might not have to do so. Just get it to the point of being wet but not soaked. Mix in cranberries until combined.

Turn your dough onto a greased cookie sheet and form into 1/2 inch circle. I feel it's easiest to just do this all on the cookie sheet but you are more than welcome to flour your counter for this part. Cut into 8 equal pieces, mine were definitely not equal, haha. More rustic if you ask me. ;) 

Bake for 15-20 minutes. You don't want to over cook so just keep an eye on them. I check them with a knife every so often until it comes out clean and the bottom is golden. 

Last step? Well enjoy of course! :D

De"lite"ful Blueberry Muffins

The past month or so I have been trying to eat as healthy as possible. It definitely is not easy, especially when you are wanting to bake constantly. The husband doesn't like me to make him eat all my sweets and I don't have any kids to pawn them off to so what to do? I figured the only thing to do was make some recipes lighter and healthier.

I had some blueberries that needed to be used so I took this muffin recipe and revised it slightly. It was already pretty healthy but I definitely didn't want to use fats and it called for fatty milk. Anyway, here it is, some yummy and filling blueberry muffins!

Recipe revised from: http://www.wholeliving.com/130491/blueberry-health-muffins

3/4 C whole wheat flour
3/4 C all purpose flour
1/2 C toasted wheat germ
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 C brown sugar
3/4 C skim milk
1/4 C applesauce
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 C blueberries
1/4 C oats

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°. Spray a 12 cup muffin pan with Smart Balance cooking spray. In a bowl whisk together dry ingredients. Make a well in center of bowl and add wet ingredients. Gently mixed until combined. Fold in blueberries.
2. Divide batter among muffin cups, I use a 1/4 measuring cup. Sprinkle oats over muffins. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 22 minutes. Transfer muffins to cooling rack.

In addition I took the new recipe to caloriecount.about.com and these babies are only 142 calories per serving! Check it out http://caloriecount.about.com/healthy-revised-blueberry-muffins-recipe-r1297462!

Enjoy