The Best Scones Ever!

I think scones are one of the most versatile recipes.  I love that you can add your favorite ingredient and put your own twist on it too!  When I saw this recipe in The Christmas Table, from Gooseberry Patch, I knew I wanted to try it.  This is a simple recipe where you get to choose what you’d like to add.  You can add chocolate chips (like I did), raisins, cherries, etc…the possibilities are endless!  The Christmas Table is the latest cookbook from Gooseberry Patch and yet again it is wonderful.  It’s filled with so many amazing recipes, little tidbits of holiday traditions, ways to decorate and the lovely clip art too!  They have graciously offered one of you a chance to win one and I’ve thrown in a little something too.  Make sure you enter the contest below!
 Ingredients are as follows:
3 C flour
1/3 C sugar
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 C cold butter, sliced
1 C buttermilk
1 C optional ingredient, (chocolate chips, raisins, dates, dried apricots, cherries)

Directions:

Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add sliced butter and mix until crumbly.
By hand, mix in the buttermilk & optional ingredient.
Pour out onto a floured surface.
Knead the dough until it comes together, then roll out to 1/2″ thick.
Cut into wedges and place onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Allow the dough to rest while you preheat the oven to 425 degrees.       Bake for 10-12 minutes; until golden brown.  Cool on a wire rack.
Take a bite and enjoy!

Now it’s your turn to get to experience these wonderful recipes!  Of course we have the cookbook, but I decided to add this adorable tea towel and a snowman cookie cutter.

This is a perfect gift just in time for the holidays!  I’m ending this on Thursday and I’m going to do priority mail so it arrives to you before Christmas 🙂

Leave a comment below telling me what your favorite holiday dessert is.

Contest closed! 
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Congratulations Michelle!  Thank you all for entering! 

 

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follow Flour Me With Love via email, Google Friend Connect or Linky followers (on my sidebar)This contest is open to U.S. residents and will end December  20th @  8:00am.  The winner will be notified via email. 

Gooseberry Patch provided me with a cookbook, however the opinions expressed are my own!

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  11. My favorite Christmas Dessert is English Trifle made with red jello and green pistachio pudding!

  12. I forgot to add my favorite dessert—it's fudge with nuts. I also commented above.

  13. Please enter me in your giveaway! I follow Gooseberry Patch on FB and Pinterest and I'm following you on Pinterest.

  14. I look forward to my mom's wine biscuits every year. It's her mother's recipe. I've never made them myself but I think it's time we get together to make them. I would love to continue the tradition with my boys 🙂

  15. Oh, the list is oh so long, but I would have to say that my favorite holiday dessert would be homemade toffee. I love the way it melts in my mouth and yet is crunchy and yummy.
    Merry Christmas one and all!

  16. Anonymous says:

    My all time favorite recipe would have to be good ole southern Jam Cake!! I have a perfect recipe!!

  17. My favorite is date pinwheels. Mom used to make them for us when I was a child.

  18. My moms hand mixed fruitcake cookies. Takes her 2 days to make but they are worth it. It's not Christmas without them.

  19. Anonymous says:

    Oh, Goodness….there are so many wonderful recipes for the holidays..it's hard to pick just one! But, I suppose if I had to, it would be "Cherry Delight". It's a great recipe with graham cracker crust, cream cheese and cool whip center and cherry pie filling topping. I discovered this recipe at a family reunion when I was 12 years old. It's so pretty and so delicious, my Mother fixed it when she wanted to do something special..and it always graced our Christmas table. Then, years later when I became a step-mother to three…my eleven year old 'bonus child' fell in love with the recipe too! I have made that special dessert for her many times over the last 32 years…but she always looks to be sure that her "Cherry Delight" on our Christmas table…it makes our Christmas just a little sweeter!

  20. Favorite holiday dessert? Homemade CHRISTMAS cookies – especially peanut butter, traditional sugar, and snickerdoodles.

  21. Favorite Holiday dessert? Hmmmm, the homemade CHRISTmas cookies, especially peanut butter, traditional sugar, and snickerdoodles.

  22. I follow Flour Me With Love on facebook

  23. My family and I love our grandma Crittie's chocolate pie!! and My sugar cookies 🙂

  24. My favorite recipe for Christmas is pecan pie….My mother's recipe.

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  26. Anonymous says:

    I like to bake pecan pie, bread and cookies with my kids.

  27. My favorite Christmas dessert is my husband's grandmother's Red Velvet Cake. It's the best I've ever had.

  28. Kris Reindl says:

    My favorite are the chocolate cookies with chocolate/coffee frosting that we only make at Christmas. It's from a recipe my great-grandmother and grandmother made every year. The other cookies only made at Christmas were kipfuls and nutballs. The kipfuls were a few days to make recipe but ALL the cookies were delicious!

  29. Scones are a staple in our house on weekends. Always looking for more recipes.

  30. Cherie Ploof says:

    My favorite desserts to make for Christmas are French Silk Pie or Chocolate Mousse! I love Gooseberry cookbooks and I am new to Flour Me with Love

  31. Anonymous says:

    I just love everything gooseberry patch has.. merry Christmas. schneildy @2010 hotmail.com

  32. I follow flour me with love on twitter as @southerncooker

  33. Either a fruit salad or one of my daughters' homemade cookies. I do love scones too though.

  34. Love Gooseberry Patch. My favorite dessert at Christmas is homemade peanut butter fudge. Love it.

  35. Marge Burchiel says:

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  36. Marge Burchiel says:

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  37. Mini cheesecakes. Yum.

  38. I love Gooseberry Patch…I 'liked' it on FB, and follow it on Pinterest…love their cookbooks.
    Now i will also follow your blog!
    merry christmas!

  39. Anonymous says:

    I love homemade cookies- especially gingerbread cookies. No one could make them like my grandma.

  40. My favorite all time Christmas treat is Aunt Bill's candy… perfection cross between caramel and praline, requires two able bodied hands to make.

  41. My All Time asked for my famous brownies. They are the perfect texture, not too moist and not dry, Just oh so yummy. I make aprox. 25-30 different desserts during this holiday time, from cookies to candies to cakes to tart/pies. You name it. 🙂

  42. Every Christmas I make my dad's fave cookie, Buon Natale Biscotti. As he ages and his health declines, I am even happier to make this treat just for him.

  43. Every Christmas I make a particular cookie (Buon Natale Biscotti) for my Dad (it's his fave). As my dad ages and his health declines it pleases me even more to make this cookie just for him.

  44. Anonymous says:

    I enjoy baking cookies at Christmas. I guess my favorite Christmas dessert is pecan pie. my email:rlmerrifield@yahoo.com

  45. My favorite Christmas recipe is pumpkin pie. I am already a fan of Gooseberry Patch.

  46. I love desserts! Pumpkin Roll, Pecan Pie, Coconut Pie, and many more are my favorites!

  47. Anonymous says:

    My favorite dessert is blueberry cheesecake

  48. Already have Gooseberry Patch on FB. Will follow "Flour me with Love" Favorite dessert is toffee (home made of course)

  49. Anonymous says:

    My favorite has always been Cherry Delight dessert. Made with cream cheese and cool whip filling on graham cracker crust then topped with cherry pie filling. Oh so good and beautiful to serve for Christmas!

  50. Anonymous says:

    Just found your websiste a few days ago anad love it would love to win one of your cookboooks.
    Merry Christmas

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    Follow Flour me with Love on facebook.

  52. Anonymous says:

    I follow gooseberry on Pintrest

  53. Anonymous says:

    I follow gooseberry on facebook.

  54. Anonymous says:

    My favorite is Heath Bar Triffle

  55. I love pumpkin bars and cranberry salad:)

  56. Anonymous says:

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  57. Thanks for the giveaway!
    I just love homemade pecan pie!

  58. TAHOEGRANDMA says:

    Anything with CHOCOLATE……….. and my grandmother's anise seed cookies.

  59. Chocolate pecan clusters are my favorite! Merry Christmas!!

  60. Chocolate pecan clusters are my favorite! Merry Christmas!!

  61. Jeanine K. says:

    My favorite Christmas recipe is my Great Great Grandma's cutout cookies. My mom and I still make them together with "Christmas on the Ponderosa" on the radio. 🙂

  62. Our favorites are iced sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies and russian tea cookies. We love the holidays and love making things
    to share with our family and friends!

  63. My favorite thing for the holidays are the cookies, we just enjoy making them and eating them. Is a great way to spend time with my kids. I also like cheesecake, giving it a nice holiday flavor, like a nice pumpkin cheesecake or and turtle cheesecake. Merry Christmas to all!!!!

  64. I liked you on Facebook and I follow Gooseberry Patch on Facebook as well!

  65. I just liked Flour Me with Love on FB!!! And I am so glad that I found your page because baking is my love!!! Thank you for this contest.
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  66. My favorite holiday dessert is really served with either coffee or tea because it is my grandmother's coffee cake which I always serve on Christmas morning for my family. When we got together with my brother and sisters and their families, I was always asked to bring it…. and it is the ONLY recipe I have that I don't share because it came over from Sweden with my ancestors and it is precious to me. Thank you for this contest… I love to bake!!! dmh5858@msn.com

  67. My favorite holiday dessert is Russian Gobs! They are THE Best! They are my favorite and the family can't get enough of them!

  68. My favorite holiday dessert is Russian Gobs. They are THE Best! It's my most requested recipe for the holidays!

  69. My favorite recipe is pecan pie. I inherited this recipe from my great-grandmother and it is delicious.

  70. Anonymous says:

    I love my Mom's Ginger Snap cookies dipped in melted butterscotch chips. They have been a stable at Christmas time for years. I have lost my copy of the recipe so been trying to contact her today to get it again. Because we live 3 provinces away from each other I won't be getting any this year. I have to bake my own! This recipe is definitely a tradition for our family. Merry Christmas to all.

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  72. My favorite is the chocolate covered peanut butter/pretzel balls! YUM! I also love that strawberry pretzel salad people make! Double yum!

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  73. Anonymous says:

    I already like Gooseberry Patch on Facebook. (That is where I learned about you!)

  74. Anonymous says:

    My family and I all love Chocolate trifle and Mississippi Mud Pie. I guess you could say that we just love chocolate period!!! 🙂

  75. Anonymous says:

    My favorite recipe is my peanut butter cookies with choc kiss in the middle. This cookie was my boyfriend's and know husband's favorite. I love to make it for him and our family still. I love your books.. You have some really nice recipes and neat pointers on the bottom of page.

  76. Melissa M. says:

    My favorite holiday dessert is cookies. All different types.

  77. My favorite Christmas recipe is a nut cake that my sweet mother always made. She is in heaven now but there are so many memories of her baking so many sweet things and especially that nut cake. She cooked each thing with so much love….I miss her but am thankful I will see her again one day.

  78. Gooseberry Patch and Flour Me with Love on Facebook.My favorite holiday dessert is my mom's Coconut Pie!

  79. My favorite Holiday dessert is Cherry Cheesecake!! Thanks for the chance to win!!

  80. I liked Flour Me with Love on Facebook, followed Gooseberry Patch and Flour Me with Love on Pininterest, and followed Flour Me with Love on email. I love Flour Me with Love and Gooseberry Patch's recipes!

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  81. Jayne Homsher says:

    White Chocolate Christmas Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce and fresh cherries! Decadent and luxury is a bowl!

  82. I follow Gooseberry Patch and Flour Me with Love on Facebook. My favorite dessert during the holidays is fruitcake! I like to make it and I really like to eat it.

  83. My Most FAV<3RITE COOKBOOKS , Ever <3 EVER <3 EVER !
    Merry Christmas Ladies and All At Gooseberry Patch and Happy 2013 !

  84. Anonymous says:

    My favorite Christmas dessert is my White Chocolate Chip cookies with Craisins (and I am generous with the chips). My friends, family and neighbors look forward to them every Christmas. When I saw your Scone recipe, I decided to add the White Chocolate Chips and Craisins to it. I just finished them a little while ago and the are delicious and so beautiful with the red Craisins! I am going to wrap some up with a Christmas card and give them to everyone this year in place of the cookies. I'm sure they will be a big hit! Thanks for the Scone recipe. Merry Christas!

  85. My fav recipe for Christmas is between two my Mom's pecan pie and my grandmother"s peanutbutter fudge

  86. I already like and follow Gooseberry Patch on Facebook.
    My favorite Christmas Dessert is from my Grandmother, Boston Cremes, and you don't use a mixer, you use a wooden spoon…

  87. My favorite Christmas recipe is that of my cut-out sugar cookies and my recipe for buttercream frosting that I got from my Mother. And the best part is that my kids love them, too.

  88. This is the only time of the year when I make fudge & I die for fudge!

  89. Anonymous says:

    Since we have Christmas ham for dinner, we like to eat homemade apple crumb pie, along with the variety of Christmas cookies we have baked.

  90. Jennifer Celeste says:

    My favorite holiday dessert is fruit cake cookies.

  91. I also Follow gooseberry patch and flour me with love on twitter, facebook, pinterest and I also get the emails 🙂 Oh and Goggle account blogger follow 🙂

  92. I used to grow my own pumpkins so pumpkin pie would be our favorite from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day.

  93. My favorite holiday dessert was always grandmas no marshmallow fudge. Oh sooo good!

  94. My favorite holiday Dessert would have to b e my moms Chocolate chip, oatmeal,cherry and walnut cookies 🙂 They are delish!! and her homemade fudge too!

  95. Anonymous says:

    Iced sugar cookies with…sprinkles. 🙂

    Tina

    angelhomemaker at yahoo dot com

  96. Anonymous says:

    Love the recipes. Thank you! Darlene M.

  97. If you're talking about Christmas, it has to be homemade cookies, in particular Almond Cresents and my Mom's sugar cookies. If you're talking in general.. lol it would be WACKY CAKE!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE

  98. If you're talking about Christmas, it has to be homemade cookies, in particular Almond Cresents and my Mom's sugar cookies. If you're talking in general.. lol it would be WACKY CAKE!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE

  99. My favorite is sugar cookie cutout & the marshmallow fudge. I already follow Flour Me with LOve on FB and pin interest.

  100. My fav is Chocolate Almond Butterballs….it's a recipe my grandmother used to make and I remember going next door to their house to help make them. Still my fav to make to this day! With my other grandmothers Spritz cookies as a close runner up!

  101. Everyone in my family loves the creamcheese ball that we make with our own smoked salmon! Even the picky little nieces and nephews gobble it down! 🙂

  102. Christmas cookies are my favorite Christmas dessert, but I can't choose which one 🙂

  103. I liked both Flour Me with Love and Gooseberry Patch on Facebook. I think my favorite dessert is probably fudge, but I love all kinds of Christmas cookies, too.

  104. My favorite holiday yummy are my chewy ginger cookies

  105. I like Christmas cookies and fudge. My Christmas cookies are the best, I think it's the nutmeg.

  106. I love any kind of pie, especially pumpkin this time of year.

  107. Great British mince pies! Thanks so much for the giveaway 🙂

  108. One of my all time favorite CHRISTmas treats is the pecan sandie. It's always been my Mom's favorite, my Grandmother's favorite (Mama's Mom) & I have grown to love it too!
    I also tried a new recipe from GBP's book "Homemade Christmas" this week and fell in love with it….Sweet Cinnamon Pie.

    I've done all of the entry requirements…names will be under (Nichole or Frugal homelivin :twitter)

  109. Choclate pie and peppermint crunch cookies.I follow gooseberry patch on face nook

  110. I follow on FB. I used to order from the Gooseberry Patch catalogs all the time, and miss them! My fav dessert is anything with chocolate and cocoanut in it!!!

  111. How do you choose a favorite dessert?!
    I love all of the different homemade cookies, fudge, buckeyes, cheesecake, pie…

    My mouth is watering in anticipation!

  112. WE make an Italian shortbread…. called Torta Sica….very basic recipe… flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla , lots and lots of butter… nuts if you like… Its a holiday treat at our house… that everyone looks forward to…. Traditonal way is to dip in wine…but we love to dunk in coffee!!!! Happy Happy Holidays Everywhere… Tiz the season to bake!!!!

  113. WE make an Italian shortbread…. called Torta Sica….very basic recipe… flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla , lots and lots of butter… nuts if you like… Its a holiday treat at our house… that everyone looks forward to…. Traditonal way is to dip in wine…but we love to dunk in coffee!!!! Happy Happy Holidays Everywhere… Tiz the season to bake!!!!

  114. love gooseberry and flour me with love on facebook
    my favorite is good ole sugar cookies decorated

  115. i LOVE scones!! But my favorite holiday dessert is good old fashioned pumpkin pie. even better……pumpkin cheesecake!

  116. plain old sugar cookies with thick sugary bad-for-you icing!

  117. My favorite dessert is pie – any kind! Apple, Pumpkin, Mince, Coconut Cream! and wait! any kind of pumpkin anything! and…

  118. I follow Flour Me With Love by e-mail & GFC.

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  119. I follow Flour Me With Love on Pinterest.
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  120. I follow Gooseberry Patch on Pinterest
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  121. I follow Flour Me With Love on Twitter
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  122. I follow Gooseberry Patch on Twitter
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  123. I like Flour Me With Love on Facebook.
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  124. I like Gooseberry Patch on Facebook.
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  125. My favorite dessert is cheesecake. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  126. My favorite Christmas goodie is clothespin cookies (aka mini cream horns). Your scones look yummy & I even have an unopened jar of devon creme to put on them.

  127. Oh my to choose a favorite dessert…hmmm, I love pumpkin roll! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  128. I have followed you on Google Friend Connect for a long long time now. 🙂 Lastly, Love these scones!!!!

  129. I have followed Gooseberry Patch on Facebook already.

  130. Hi Lisa,

    What a sweet holiday giveaway! My favorite holiday dessert is a wonderful red cherry pie smothered with whipped cream! Simple, but perfect for me!

  131. My favorite holiday dessert is my mom's homemade peanut butter fudge!

  132. I've never made scones before! These are so neat 😀 And I love the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks; they are so full of cute and interesting gift ideas!

  133. I love anything pumpkin…pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll, pumpkin cheesecake, and the list goes on and on. :O)

  134. There are so many wonderful desserts associated with the holidays that it is difficult to chose only one! Growing up, my mom's pecan pie was one of the things that made the holidays special! She has been gone for 9 years but I have wonderful memories of her in the kitchen mixing up all those goodies for us to eat!

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