Try something a little different when preparing your next dessert. Serve some quick and easy sweet treats at your next gathering.

Scones are a tricky breakfast treat. Done right, and the pillowy folds of butter crumble in your mouth. Done wrong and they taste like greasy hockey pucks. These four bakeshops have never left me disappointed.

Perfect for the winter season, scones go great with coffee, tea; and even hot water, honey and lemon. These scones make for a cozy evening in, or a wonderful morning breakfast.

Scones.

Enjoy a taste of England with Orange Cream Scones. They are a luscious tea time treat. The recipe is easy and goes together quickly. What could be better than Orange Cream Scones and a cuppa? Put the kettle on!

You can add 1/2 cup of grated cheese instead of the raisins.
To make an elegant dessert scone, add 1/2 cup of crystallised ginger which you have chopped finely instead of the raisins. Serve with fromage frais.

A great dessert to go along with the Traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

This is a recipe I’ve used for years and can be altered to add different flavours: sometimes I’ve added a little almond essence into the mix with cherries to make yummy cherry scones. Depending on how big you make them, the quantity will vary, I tend to end up making between 12 and 15 in a batch.

This is a recipe I really love, it’s ridiculously easy, you can alter the quantities to suit how many you want to make, and they are yummy. What more can you ask for?

Cheese scones.