How to make fabulous scones an easy way!

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This is a hack. What gives folks pause when making scones is cutting the cold butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender. It's not hard but it's different.

Here's the hack: Eliminate that step--cutting the butter into the flour.

How? Just add water. That simplifies your baking--a bunch--and saves time. Use a just-add-water biscuit mix. Sure, the texture is a little different but with a quality biscuit mix, no one is likely to notice, much less care.

Then load them up with inclusions such as with the cranberry and orange scones shown here and drizzle them with frosting. (Can you tell whether these have been made the scone way or with a biscuit mix?) Try it! Be a hero the easy way.

But what about all the goodies to add to your scones?

Hack again. You and I can come up with a list of fruits, nuts, chips and flavors but why bother? Check out our scone mixes or a recipe book and knock off our ideas with your biscuit mix. Same goes with the frosting, just trade out flavors.

Here are some recipe ideas from our site to get you started. And that free mix.