recipe box Friday?

It's been a jumbled week, but that's the way life works sometimes.  This is from a recipe I had pulled from a magazine years ago, and have adapted it to make it my own.  It is my go-to recipe when I want a scone, as I don't have the patience for kneading and shaping into discs. 

Wouldn't mind another batch of them today, but today's baking is for Mike's birthday cake.  He turns 49 tomorrow, yes, a May Day baby.  He has requested angel food, so I will be cracking eggs all morning to whip up a tasty tribute.

EASY SCONES

2 c. flour
1/3 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
6 Tbsp. cold butter, cut up
1/2 c. fresh or frozen cranberries, coarsely chopped
1/3 c. dried cranberries
1/2 c. milk (I like to start with a couple of tablespoons of half and half, and fill to the half cup mark with skim milk-you could be really decadent and use all half and half if you wanted)
1 lg. egg
1 Tbsp. coarse raw sugar

Preheat oven to 425.  Grease a cookie sheet.  Pulse flour, 1/3 c. sugar, baking powder, salt, and butter in food processor until the texture of fine meal.  Transfer to a large bowl.  Stir in the fresh and dried cranberries.

Beat milk and egg with a fork.  Add to the flour mixture, stir with fork until dry ingredients are evenly moist without overstirring. 

Drop dough in 8 clumps 2" apart onto prepared sheet.  Sprinkle with coarse sugar (you can use regular sugar if you don't have the raw kind on hand).  Bake 12-14 minutes until golden, transfer to a rack to cool.

You can use any kind of fruit you like, use a combo of any dried fruit along with it's fresh counterpart-bananas, apricots, cherries, blueberries, or strawberries.  When I made them last weekend, I didn't have any fresh cranberries on hand, so I just used all dried and threw in half a cup of white chocolate chips.  The possiblities are endless!  Thinking the next ones I make will be fresh strawberry with dried blueberries, they would also be good with some toasted almonds or pecans thrown into the mix.  See what a versatile recipe this is?  Definitely a keeper.