Delicious lemon pound cake filled with blueberries and topped with a lemon thyme glaze – what treat for the summertime! Easy to make cake flavored with lemon zest, blueberries and blueberry jam. Baking with sour cream makes your goodies more moist than using milk and…
I love this time of year! Little Johnny Jump Ups and pansies greet us in stores -which I can’t resist! I brought some home and planted them in the pots by our front door. As I was looking through magazines this week, I saw a…
Spring is here! When the weather begins to warm up I am ready to transition from soups and comfort foods to cooking and baking with fresh fruits and vegetables. These scones are springy and sweet – and so simple to make and delicious to eat!
You can use fresh or frozen raspberries. (The original recipe below, used strawberries. I was just a couple of tablespoons short of raspberries, so I put a few strawberries in too.) The lemon and raspberry flavors create sweet and tart flavorful scones and the poppy seeds add a slight crunch.
Start by whisking the dry ingredients and the liquid ingredients together.
Grate frozen butter into the flour mixture, using a box grater.
Combine the flour mixture and butter with a pastry cutter, two forks or your fingers.
Add the liquid ingredients and raspberries and gently mix together until everything is just moistened. Do not overmix.
You can shape the dough into a disk and cut into wedges or use a scone pan. Brush the scones with cream and sprinkle with coarse sugar and poppy seeds, if desired. The coarse sugar gives these scones a crisp sparkly crust and a sweet crunch. (I think next time, I will leave the poppy seeds off of the top, and just top with the coarse sugar.) Bake at 400 degrees for about 22-25 minutes. Cool for just a few minutes before icing.
While the scones are baking you can get the icing ingredients ready. Mix it up when you take the scones out of the oven.
Fresh from the oven, drizzle the lemon icing on the warm scones. That allows it to soak into the scones – mouthwatering!
Yum! Crunchy golden brown on the outside, tender and moist on the inside – bursting with sweet raspberry and tangy lemon flavors.
You can top with even more poppy seeds if you are a big poppy seed fan.
If you put a second layer of lemon icing on the scones, I believe it would now be called a dessert! Enjoy and Happy Spring!
This is another amazing recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction Blog. For the recipe and full instructions, click on the link below:
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-lemon-poppy-seed-scones/
So often our happy memories influence the decisions we make. It seems so many garden magazines are featuring “Grandmother Gardens” – with the flowers we remember that our grandparents planted. I remember Grandma Davitt’s deep purple petunias and Grandma Steinhauser had an English Flower Garden…
Pansies are a sure sign that spring is here! I love all the pretty colors! They are a fun flower to bake with and make crafts with. These shortbread cookies are easy to make. You combine butter and sugar in a food processor, then add…
Don’t you just love the spring? When all the bulbs you planted last fall come to life and signal that spring is here. I love it when the daffodils and tulips start to bloom – you can’t help but smile when you walk by these beautiful spring flowers.
One of my favorite tulips is the Angelique Tulip. It is one of the most popular and best selling tulips. It has gorgeous pink peony shaped petals.
The Angelique tulip is a frilly, feminine double tulip. They are fragrant and long-lived. Last year ours survived two spring snows and kept on blooming.
The flowers are soft and slightly ruffled. Pretty in your garden – but make sure you cut a few to bring inside to enjoy all day!
These tulips have delicate pale pink and rose shades against creamy white. So beautiful!
Pretty tulips all in row. These tulips pair well with other spring flowers. The cobalt blue clusters of the grape hyacinth create a wonderful contrast with the pale pink blossoms.
Catalogs are now selling bulbs for you to plant in the fall. Start planning your spring gardens now. Walk around your gardens and decide where you would like to add beautiful tulips! Enjoy being outside.
Here are a couple of sources of Angelique tulip bulbs:
Are you like me – as soon as we have a few warm spring days, I start looking around to see what I can plant? I love walking through the plant nurseries and the gardening sections of stores – so many lovely plants, gorgeous flowers,…
What do you love most about the spring? The warmer weather? Gentle rains with opportunities to get out your galoshes and umbrellas – and splash in the puddles? Watching the birds and the bees? Seeing the flowers begin to bloom? This charming Kimberbell quilt celebrates…
What a fun time of year to bake! Wonderful flavors, beautiful spring pastel colors and all kinds of cute candies to choose from to decorate your treats with! Little bundt cakes are so fun for Easter desserts! Top with a vanilla glaze and your choice of M&Ms, mini Cadbury eggs and lots of toasted coconut!
Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Happy Weekend! Enjoy this special time with your family and friends!!!
The link below has more Easter ideas and the recipe for the Lemon Bundt Cake:
Can you believe that Easter is almost here? What treats are you going to bake this year? You will want to add these to your list. These are the perfect cookies to bake for your Easter gathering. Cadbury Eggs are a favorite treat of mine!…
Welcome to Sugar, Sunshine and Flowers!
Mary Beth shares her love of family, food, DIY projects and being outdoors.
