Enter Sticky Fingers Bakeries scone mixes.
After traveling for several months, I have to admit that it's taking me awhile to get back into the swing of baking again. So far I've made gingersnaps from a Betty Crocker mix and made a brave attempt at red velvet cakepops, but we all saw how those came out. While perusing the aisles of World Market, one of my favorite stores, I came across a display of scone mixes from Sticky Fingers Bakeries and thought they might be another good chance to ease back into baking, and also to see what a decent scone might taste like if all the mixing and measuring were already done for me. Sticky Fingers offers a ridiculously wide variety of mixes from the standard blueberry and lemon, to raspberry and apple cinnamon, as well as seasonal flavors like pumpkin spice and peppermint chocolate chip.
This experiment was a double whammy for me because, not only do I have an adversarial relationship with scones...but I also hate eggnog. I want to enjoy it so badly--I love cream! I love nutmeg!--but I just can't do it. I usually make up for this by pouting in front of store windows whenever I see signs for eggnog lattes or ice cream. So I bought the eggnog scone mix, obviously. : )
And, believe it or not, I thought they were awesome. Probably because they tasted more like "spiced" and not so much like "eggnog". But the texture! Soft, chewy, fluffy! Amazing. They still baked up a nice crunchy shell that you'd expect in a scone but were also soft enough inside to be enjoyable without being cake-like. Love them. Just don't expect to see me dipping one into a mug of eggnog anytime soon. *pout*
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