Glazed Jam Scones

Adorable buttermilk jam scones baked with your favorite jam inside and brushed with a buttery vanilla glaze.

I realized today as I was putting this post together, that for a blog that’s barely four months old, Baking Mischief sure does have a lot of tea-party ready recipes. There are my Perfectly Pretty Lemon Bars , my Sherlock Tea Bag Cookies , Victoria Sponge Cupcakes , etc.

Am I subconsciously trying to tell myself something? Am I as an adult trying to create on the blog, the perfect tea party I never had as a child? Who knows?

But guess what. I have another perfect tea party recipe for you today. Big shocker, I know.

These Jam Scones are just about the most adorable things to come out of my kitchen in a while and so tasty. They are my favorite basic buttermilk scone base baked up with the jam of your choice (I’m partial to raspberry) with a buttery vanilla glaze.

They can be served warm and gooey or cooled, with the glaze crunchy and set.

These jam scones are perfect for brunch or a sunny afternoon tea party! - 2

These jam scones are perfect for brunch or a sunny afternoon tea party! - 3

In the oven, the jam cooks down and becomes thick and syrupy and is the perfect complement to the soft, slightly crumbly scone.

I make these whenever I want a dessert that’s a little different and distribute the extras to various friends and family members. After the initial WTF is a jam scone response, they are always a hit.

Jam scones are simple to make and everyone always loves them! - 4

Jam scones are simple to make and everyone always loves them! - 5

Who knows, maybe someday, I’ll throw that tea party of five-year-old me’s dreams and serve these Jam Scones (and all those other aforementioned treats) to my guests.

Though to live up to my fantasies, the guest list would have to include at least one Disney princess, a muppet, and Rainbow Brite. So if anyone has any of their contact information, it would be much appreciated…

Fresh green beans with chopped bacon, tossed in bacon drippings make an easy, tasty, and surprisingly low-calorie side dish.

Looking for a tasty veggie side? Well, look no further, because I’ve got a good one for you, my favorite Bacon and Green Beans Side Dish.

A couple months ago, I shared my No-fail Butter and Garlic Green Beans and those have ended up being one of the most popular recipes on the site. These are the same easy peasy deal, but instead of tossing home-cooked green beans in butter and garlic, you cook up a couple slices of bacon and toss the beans in the bacon drippings.

And yes, it is exactly as tasty and easy as it sounds.

These babies come in at under 100 calories a serving, can be made in 15 minutes, and are completely delicious. I could totally eat these every night of the week and never tire of them.

If you have a significant other or a kiddo who doesn’t like to eat their greens, give these a try, it might make a convert out of them!

Green beans with bacon on a white plate with a sandwich. - 9

Green beans with bacon on a white plate with a sandwich. - 10

More Easy Veggie Sides

Roasted Green Beans
Green Beans in the Microwave
Roasted Broccoli
Roasted Zucchini
Corn on the Cob in the Microwave

Bacon green beans on a white plate. - 11

Ingredients

▢ 1 pound green beans trimmed
▢ 2 slices of bacon cut into 1/2-inch pieces
▢ Salt and pepper

Instructions

Place green beans in a medium pot and cover with lightly salted cold water. Bring to a simmer. Simmer the green beans over medium low to medium for 5 to 10 minutes until beans reach your desired level of doneness. Drain.
While your green beans are cooking, add bacon pieces to a large skillet. Cook until done. If your bacon gets done before your green beans are ready, simply remove pan from heat until they are ready to go. Once green beans are done and drained, add them to the pan of bacon and toss to coat in bacon drippings.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Nutritional Information

Make-ahead Instructions: Uncooked bacon can be chopped and green beans trimmed, up to two days in advance. Store separately, in airtight containers, and make sure your beans are dry when storing. Recipe for Two Instructions: The recipe halves cleanly. No cooking changes are needed.

Saturday Morning Snapshot

Cap 3 screenings have begun, time to go on the spoiler offensive…

State of the Blog

My Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes With Broccoli and Cheese Sauce were featured in a Redbook round up of slow cooker meals on their site this week. The caption they gave it cracked me up, and if you are looking for some super easy dinners, go check out the fantastic other recipes in that post!

On the blog, I posted one of my most made recipes, homemade panini. Fun fact about that post, I spent a ridiculously long time AGONIZING about whether Baking Mischief was going to be a site that said “panino” or “panini.” I went down a linguistic rabbit hole that included Reddit, cooking sites, Italian and English language forums, and more than one academic paper, hoping someone would just tell me what to do. No one would, so I went with my personal preference, fully aware that I’m probably on the wrong side of history with this one. Wednesday, things were much simpler with another easy green bean side, and Friday there were scones!

Next week is sandwich number two of our Hot Sandwich series, I do a magic trick with Nutella, and on Friday, turn that magic trick into something delicious.

Recipes/posts released this week were:

Easy Homemade Panini Without a Panini Press - 15

Easy Homemade Panini Without a Panini Press - 16

Quick Green Beans With Bacon Side Dish - 17

Quick Green Beans With Bacon Side Dish - 18

Easy Homemade Panini Without a Panini Press – Perfectly cooked panini, crunchy and toasted on the outside, warm, gooey, and cheesy on the inside, all without using a panini press!

Quick Green Beans With Bacon Side Dish – Fresh green beans with chopped bacon, tossed in bacon drippings make an easy, tasty, and surprisingly low-calorie side dish.

Glazed Jam Scones – Adorable buttermilk scones baked with your favorite jam inside and brushed with a buttery vanilla glaze.

Pop-culture Corner

The first wave of Captain America: Civil War screenings has started, and the minute I began to see early (good!) reactions in my Twitter feed, up went the Twitter and Chrome keyword blockers. I’m not usually a spoiler-phobe, but since I’ve read the comics and know what happens, I guess I really don’t want to know what happens.

The Rogue One teaser dropped. Whadja think? I’m a big fan of Felicity Jones and an even bigger fan of flowing capes, so for me, so far, so good.

Speaking of that Rogue One trailer, every time I peak outside of my perfectly curated Twitter bubble into the wider Twitterverse, the world feels like a completely garbage place.

Except for when I stumble upon tweets like this:

A message from an old friend. #Kingsman pic.twitter.com/n4HShWktIK — Taron Egerton (@TaronEgerton) April 7, 2016

Charming shortbread tea bag cookies, dipped in chocolate, with printable “Sherlock” tea tags.

Are you ready for the Sherlock winter special? We all have the shows we love, possibly beyond reason. Sherlock is one of mine. The problem with loving this show is that it airs a three-episode season and then goes away for YEARS. The delight of loving it is that every time it comes back, it feels like an event. We aren’t even getting three episodes this time around, just a single 90-minute episode, but it’s Sherlock , so it’s cause for celebration.

We’re celebrating around here by making these Sherlock -themed tea bag cookies. The cookie base is my favorite crumbly, buttery shortbread, covered with melted chocolate and adorned with custom tea tags for a perfect Sherlock dessert. As a bonus, I have a fun extra recipe to use up the scraps so nothing goes to waste! (Scroll down to see!)

I love this show so much, I broke out my dusty old wacom tablet and created three different tea tags for you to use. Click on each tag to download a printable sheet of the design. Number four will give you a mix of the three.

British Government/Silver Fox fans, I also made a special tag just for you. <3 <3