Kari On Travel: Happiness is calling

For me, happiness is having a plan! And there's nothing quite like putting the plan in to action.

For our upcoming trip I'm making a few things ahead of time so when we hit our destination we can transition quickly in to vacation mode. Today I whipped up a batch of super easy and great tasting Clementine-Cranberry Scones and put them in the freezer so we'll have them ready for our trip. Of course the boys each had a scone hot out of the oven (Preston's rationale was a couple less scones would fit better in the freezer bag!)

Clementine-Cranberry Scone
(Originally Orange-Currant Scone - but I had clementines and dried cranberries so I adapted the recipe :) )

Source: www.epicurious.com

These scones are terrific with butter and honey or marmalade.

3 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cups chilled solid vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons chilled buttermilk

3/4 cup dried currants (I used cranberries)
1 tablespoon grated orange peel (I used clementine peel)
Additional sugar

Preheat oven to 425F. Ine large baking sheet with foil. Stir flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in large bowl to blend. Add butter and shortening; using fingertips, rub in until coarse meal forms. Add 1 cup buttermilk, currants and orange peel. Stir gently until dough comes together in large moist clumps. Gather dough into ball. Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface. Gently knead 3 or 4 turns to combine well. Divide into 2 pieces; flatten into 3/4-inch thick rounds. Using floured knife, cut each round into 8 wedges. Transfer wedges to prepared baking sheet. Brush with remaining 2 tablespoons buttermilk and sprinkle with additional sugar.

Bake scones until light golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Cool completely and then freeze so you can pack them up for your trip.

Hard to put a price on these because I had all the items in my pantry; however, for comparison, the price of similar type and size scones at the farmers market are $2.50/each. I made 16 scones and will be taking 14 (less the two the boys ate!) of them on our trip. If we bought scones on our trip, we would have spent $35!