a little bit savoury | a whole lot sweet
Given all the red velvet goodies that I make, there is always buttermilk left over that I need to find a use for. Recently, I strayed from my tried and true scone recipe and found a recipe for buttermilk scones on Taste.com.au to try with very pleasing results.
Luckily for me the official scone tester, my father-in-law, was coming around to help the hubby with a couple of projects and he is always willing to be a guinea pig for my cooking. Especially when it comes to scones.
Mum made two different chocolate chip treats when we were kids. My brother and I both loved the chocolate chip cookies but he was not a fan of the chocolate chip muffins, which was great for me. From memory I think it was because of the orange flavour which is kind of funny now as he loves orange chocolate, so much so that the hubby and I gave him about five kilograms of Jaffas for Christmas a few years ago. Needless to say, he went off orange chocolate for a while again.
For the final tier for my High Tea, I needed something small so I decided to make Mini Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins which would fit quite nicely.
Now I am a scone lover from way back. Growing up, I remember going to my Nan’s house to make scones, or help her eat the one’s that she had just finished baking. Smelling them as I walked through the front door and seeing them on top of the stove wrapped in a tea towel waiting to cool is one of the most vivid things I remember about my time cooking with Nan.
One of the places on my “to visit” list has been The Victoria Tea Salon in the new Westfield shopping centre after reading about it on Not Quite Nigella’s blog. I am not a tea drinker, but given my love of all things sweet and cute, I was ensuring we were able to go on our recent trip to the big smoke to savour their scones.