Honey Scones & Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

I was in a honey mood this morning and decided to make two sweet recipes. The honey scones were very delicious and they had a nice texture. I would venture to say they were more biscuit-like than scone-like, but they were still delicious! The yogurt was great, too! The honey sweetened up the yogurt and the nuts provided a good crunch.

Honey Scones

Recipe from The Repressed Pastry Chef

2c all purpose flour

1T baking powder

1/4t salt

4T cold, unsalted butter cut into pieces

3T honey

1c cream

Preheat oven to 400F.

Combine dry ingredients, cut in butter until crumbly.Whisk honey and cream, add to the dry ingredients and mix with spoon. Press into greased scone pan or lightly flour a work surface, roll out the dough into a circle, cut into 8 triangle-shaped pieces and transfer each to a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown on top. Cool for 5 minutes in pan then turn out onto wire rack and cool for another 5 minutes.

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Yogurt with Honey and Walnuts

Recipe from Martha Stewart

3 ounces walnut halves (about 3/4 cup)
1 cup good-quality honey, such as clover or wildflower
24 ounces plain low-fat yogurt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread walnuts in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet, and toast until fragrant and golden brown, 7 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Rub with a damp kitchen towel to remove as much loose skin as possible.

While still warm, place walnuts in a small bowl; pour honey on top, and stir to coat evenly. Let cool, about 2 minutes.

Divide yogurt among six dessert bowls, and spoon honey mixture over each. Serve immediately.

Orange Marmalade Muffins & Orange-Cardamom Yogurt

Go ahead... say it. I'm addicted to cardamom. Yes, it's true. Besides the fact that I love the taste of it, the jar of cardamom was expensive, so I am determined to use all of it. Although, most recipes only call for 1/4-1/2 tsp at a time, so I will need a lot more cardamom recipes! :)

Here are two delicious breakfast recipes that call for cardamom. YUM YUM YUM!!!!

Orange Marmalade Muffins with Cardamom Pine Nut Streusel

Recipe from Eating Out Loud

1 3/4 cup flour

1/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup orange marmalade

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

3/4 cup milk

4 tablespoons butter, melted

1/2 tsp vanilla

Cardamom pine nut streusel

1/2 cup pine nuts, half of them chopped finely

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed

3 tablespoons flour

1/2 tsp. ground cardamom

2 tablespoons butter, softened

Add the dry muffin ingredients to a mixing bowl, add wet ingredients, and stir to combine. Pour into a greased muffin tin, filling each muffin cup 2/3 full.

For the streusel, use a fork (or your fingers) to mush the ingredients together. Sprinkle about 1 tablespoon over the top of each muffin.

Bake the muffins in a preheated 400 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until the muffins test done. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before removing from the muffin pan.

Makes 12 muffins.

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Orange-Cardamom Yogurt

Recipe adapted from FoodCite

1 c. plain yogurt

1/4 t. cardamom

1/8 t. nutmeg

1-2 TBSP orange marmalade

1 t. honey

Mix all ingredients. Adjust to taste.