itty bitty apricots

I wish I could say these were from the farmers market but they are not.  These little gems are from Trader Joe's a place I love and hate at the same time.  I mean they always have cheap pretty flowers,the cheese section is usually good, I like their assortment of chocolate covered things especially the little peanut butter cups those are little buttons of happiness if you pop them in the freezer. Really I like everything in the store including the doggy chicken things that miles gobbles up.  Their assortment of frozen things is where the hate come in.  Any other store and I stroll past the frozen food like I don't even own a freezer.  But at Trader Joe's they have so many fun things (chocolate croissant being one of them) that I buy all of them and then I am poor and have no freezer space.   How the heck did I start talking about this lets get back on track to apricots!

So anyways the thing with buying fruit in a container is well you have to get more then you will probably eat before they go bad (I just have me to feed I realize this is not true when there are dependents such as children or significant others I don't have either).  All my little apricots got ripe so fast I was trying to eat them all in a day so they didn't go bad and that was just silly when I can bake with them instead.

Now I was thinking a tart or apricot upside down cake but I wasn't really in the mood for dessert type food so I decided to turn them into apricot scones. Morning has become one of my favorite parts of the day now that I actually have time to sit down and enjoy breakfast.  This had made me want to bake more breakfast treats. I have been struggling to find a scone recipe that has everything I want in a breakfast treat. I want a little bit sweet with a lot savory, slightly flaky and moist but can hold its own next to my morning americano. I am still not 100 percent there but it is progress and that is all I can hope for.  

Apricot Buttermilk Scones

makes about 8

1 cup all purpose flour (plus more for kneading)

1 cup wheat flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoon sugar

4 tablespoons butter (cold and cut up)

1 large egg

1/2 buttermilk( plus a bit more for brushing)

4-6 fresh apricots chopped up tiny

pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

Either in a mixer or a large bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder and sugar.  The add in butter just until combined and sorta looks like wet sand. Pour in buttermilk and egg and mix just until combined, dump in apricots and mix till just combined dough will be wet that okay.

Now generously flour a work surface and drop that wet mess of dough on it and knead a few time lets say 5-6 until it sorta stays together.  I needed to add extra flour my apricots made the dough really wet.  For the the dough into a disk about 3/4 thick.  and cut into 8 wedges you can make to small disks if you want smaller wedges thats your call.  You can even make a big square and cut squares or cut out rounds whatever suits your fancy.

Put the wedges on a baking sheet and brush with buttermilk and a sprinkle of sugar and pop in the oven for 15 minutes or until brown on top.

so even though I made these for breakfast I had one as a bed time snack with some fresh whipped cream!