Fruity Oat Scones

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups Bread Flour
1 cup Old Fashioned Oats
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold margarine
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup vanilla flavored soy milk
1 Tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in margarine with a pastry blender or hand mixer. Add milk, stir with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until dough forms. Mix in dried cranberries. Drop dough into 20 balls about 2 inches in diameter (about 2 Tbsp) on a baking sheet. Run fingers under cold water and flatten balls slightly with wet fingers. Mix cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle lightly over flattened scones. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until the tops begin to brown. The tops will be slightly crunchy and the inside will be soft like a muffin, only a little more dense.

Variations:
Use any dried fruit you like, just make sure to cut it into small pieces. Mangos and strawberries are tasty, omit the cinnamon and add a little coconut.

These scones are so yummy, you’ll think you are eating cookies for breakfast! My vegetarian 5 year old nephew loves my scones. I give them to him as a dessert, and because they are much healthier than a cookie, I do not feel guilty when he eats three of them!