Scone Essentials Giveaway
Scones were my gateway drug into baking, my first love. For better or worse, they enticed me to try harder things. Initially though, they intimidated me. With their endless layers, their perfect imperfections, and their glistening top hat. But after learning the tricks of the trade, I was hooked. And my love for scones progressed into biscuits … tarts … and pies. But I’ll never forget my first love. Scones taught me about the art of baking. They taught me to work with my hands. And they taught me to appreciate the process just as much as the outcome.
And now here I am passing those tools on to you in the form of a giveaway. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—I’m so thankful for you. For reading. For humoring me. For commenting. For telling me how the recipes turn out. For sending me pictures of your creations. You make my heart happy. And for one lucky reader, I hope this makes your heart happy.
Giveaway:
You could win a shiny new pastry knife, pastry bench, and pastry fork from Sur la Table, my favorite kitchen store. Giveaway runs from Tuesday, September 6 until Friday, September 16 at midnight. Winner will be chosen at random using random.org and announced Saturday, September 17. Giveaway open to U.S. readers only.
To enter:
1. Leave a comment by telling me your first baking love or your favorite type of scone.
For three additional entries:
2. Like The Fauxmartha on Facebook, and let me know by leaving an additional comment. If you’re already a fan, you can also leave an additional comment.
3. Follow The Fauxmartha on Twitter, and let me know by leaving an additional comment. If you already follow, you can also leave an additional comment.
4. Spread the word, by re-posting to Twitter, Facebook, or your blog, and let me know by leaving an additional comment. (Only one comment for sharing).
Stay tuned for more scone-loving later this week! I’ll be posting my favorite scone recipe as well as a how-to video which showcases these lovely tools. Yes, I dirty up all three gadgets. It’s essential.
Gadget images from Sur la Table.
Favorite type of scone: cranberry chocolate!
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Favorite Scone: Mocha!
What a sweet giveaway! I absolutely adore your blog! My recent baking obsession has been meringues, though there is still lots of recipe perfecting to work on. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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First baking love would have to be a tie between cookies & pies – best when made with family!
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Ginger scones are my favorite!
My first baking love was roll-out sugar cookies. Mostly because it’s the tastiest cookie dough.
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Toffe Chocolate Scones are my favorite. My favorite thing to bake was cut out sugar cookies!
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Sucker for blueberry scones, but also recently discovered carrot/coconut scones! delish!
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My mom and dad have an orchard that’s older than I am. One of my earliest baking memories starts there. I remember being a really little kid-like kindergarten age-and helping to pick apples, dumping them in the wagon attached to the tractor, eating warm apples right off the tree, throwing the bad apples to the neighbor’s cows, and riding the tractor back to the house with our pile of apples. We canned and froze the apples we couldn’t use, which was always a lot-we had cider, applesauce, and apple slices for pies year-round that way. But the best part was the smell of the apple pies we always baked with those fresh apples… It’s hard not to love cooking when you see the process of making your food start-to-finish!
My favorite scone is cranberry-orange but the best scones were the ones that we bought every day while on sabbatical in Oxford (especially with clotted cream).
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My first baking love was cakes but I quickly replaced that with cookies once I stopped burning them!
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I love orange-pecan scones with a light glaze. I think I would love the scone pictured on your blog also. I have never made scones but am willing to give it a try!
My favorite scones are classic blueberry. It reminds of great times in a small little town in the Finger Lake region of NY I love.
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My favorite scones are classic cream scones with chocolate chips.
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Pumpkin pie was the first thing I ever baked and it’s still my favorite! Yum.
Oatmeal Cookies was the first thing a baked from scratch.
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I love glazed blueberry scones and vanilla bean scones, too!
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first love…cookies?? i am so in awe/intimidated of your baking. maybe someday i will try a recipe when i get enough courage!
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I am obsessed with pumpkin chocolate chip scones… SOO good!
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My first baking experience??…. EASY BAKE OVEN!! I was in the 2nd grade when I got one for Christmas, and I started by baking 3 layer devil’s food cakes for each person in my family! I was HOOKED!
My first baking love was layer cakes! Am still in love and always looking for an excuse to bake one! Tried an avacado scone recently and am excited about the nutella one from Baked!
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It’s so funny, that I only made scones for the first time this spring, after years of baking! Now I realize that there’s nothing like a homemade scone. My first baking love would be bundt cakes. Who doesn’t enjoy a good bundt
my first love….so hard to pick! I’d say cupcakes are first barely beating cookies! but I love your blog and instagram! so lovely & fresh! heading to fb now!
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My favorite scones are chocolate chip walnut scones.
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I’ve had only one scone in my life!! Starbuck’s Vanilla Bean. I have a copy cat recipe, though, that I’ve been dying to make. Maybe soon {with some shiny new tools??}
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I have never had a scone, but have been wanting to try and make some. They sound so good. I love to make cheesecake and brownies!
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My first scone was in England…how appropriate? It was a currant scone during tea at Kensington!
My first baking love is bread – just something about the smell of fresh bread that makes the heart smile.
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Hello! I remember making pretzels from scratch as an ambitious little kid. I think my dad encouraged me. Those must have been what got me interested in baking, although I didn’t get serious about it until years later!
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My first baking love was cooking blondies – or cookie bars. I memorized the recipe in high school and brought them EVERYWHERE!
)but I’m also a huge scone fan. Love anything with cranberries)
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My favorite scone? All of them. I love Oat Currant, Pumpkin- Ginger, Blueberry, Peach-Ginger, Cherry-Almond. Mmm. Nothing like a good scone for breakfast on a crisp morning. Oh, and Apple, too.
I like raspberry white chocolate scones!
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The scone I tried today has to be my favorite by far. It was cinnamon apple, with a very soft center. Delicious.
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Favorite scone – dark, sweet dried cherries with dark chocolate chips.
I love blueberry scones, but this recipe looks awesome!
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My favorite scone is Blueberry scone…
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My first baking love was probably sugar cookies, frosted for the holidays. Easy to make. Delicious to eat!
My first baking love would have to be a classic peanut butter cookie. It was one of those cookies that I would make over and over when I first started baking. Good thing my dad loved because they were always around, or in the freezer. Love frozen cookies!
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ps…..will i get disqualified if I tell you I’ve never made a scone??
My first baking love was definitely the cookie. Although I started out with brownies (usually from a mix, once from a “quick desserts” cookbook) and maybe a cake or two (from a mix), I fell in love when I started baking cookies galore. Thanks for the giveaway =)
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Hi there, my first love was black forest cake which i baked way back in school days. just remember its recipe by heart till now. wud look forward to ur scone giveaway, lovely !!!
My favorite scone is cranberry orange YUM!
My favorite scones right now are pumpkin…I’m so ready for fall baking!!!!
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Pumpkin scones!
My first baking love was cookies! It started back when I was a kid helping my mom in the kitchen with the annual Christmas cookie swap.
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Orange glazed scones – delicious
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My first baking love was chocolate chip cookies!
Chocolate Chip Scones are my favorite!