Dear Turkey,
Even though my husband's diet is almost over, I still hid these from him, since he probably didn't plan on two cups of cream and two sticks of butter in his break-baking-diet-fast.
This is what inspired me to make these scones:
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| cool random German apple butter (at least I think it's apple butter...I can't read that...) |
My husband wanted some apple butter, so I picked this exotic one. However, he wasn't crazy about it even though he has exotic taste (not for wives). So, there I was, home on a winter day with the baby, a pint of cream and an almost-full jar of delicious apple butter staring me in the face. So I made these scones again. Instead of 1c cream and 1c milk, I decided to use up the cream. I am ashamed. In place of the chocolate, I patted half of the dough down on the parchment paper, then I spread half of the apple butter on that, topped that with the rest of the dough, followed by the rest of the apple butter. (Make sure to pat gently -- god, I hate adverbs.) When I baked it, I made sure the butter didn't brown (because that makes them taste less delicate, more manly; probably Hemingway would direct his wife to brown the butter), but I did let the apple butter on top caramelize a little.
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| it tastes a little like apple pie, but not too much, which is good, because I don't really like pie (I know, I know) |
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| the apple butter really caramelized nicely (adverb!), but it would be good with any jam, or marmalade |
I moss you,
Tofu
I'd just like to say that having sampled these personally, they'd be worth breaking ANY diet for! :o) So, so good!! Then again, I don't ever seem to limit amazing goodness like this from my diet, if you're going to eat dessert, you may as well do it right. Ah well.
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