Adding Lavender to Your Kitchen - Lavender Lemon Scones

It was 6:30 on Tuesday morning right after dropping off my daughter at school, I was driving back home and ready to enjoy my day off with my husband we both have been working like crazy in the past months, it was a looong wedding season for us. And soon we will be going in our two week vacation/honeymoon. Horray!
So, I knew that when I would be back home he would be still sleeping  and I wanted to surprise him with something yummy for breakfast. It came to my mind a lavender lemon scone recipe that I got a while ago but never actually tried to make it. So I got home with a purpose to make lavender scones went outside cut some fresh lavender flower from the garden, which is doing surprisingly well. I always prefer to use fresh instead of dried lavender I think it tastes a lot more floral when it's dried so I always need to watch out in the quantity and not let it taste like perfume. 
Trying my best in not to make too much noise I pulled out the ingredients to make the scones, did my scone and even decorate them with some lavender flowers before putting in the oven . Well, I like to serve and make pretty things for my family .And, I do believe we first eat with our eyes!
And by the time the scone were just about to come out of the oven I could smell the scent of lavender all over my kitchen.Ethan my husband got up and came downstairs to see what was going on in the kitchen. It must have been the delicious scent of baking with lavender that takes you back to spring..... then I had a second thought... No, I bet was the bacon that I just pull out of the oven and now was cooling down on a rack on the kitchen counter.
I hope you will enjoy this recipe, it's really easy to make it and so delicious you can serve with butter or jam or both!
Lavender Lemon Scones 
Ingredients: 

Makes about 10 scones

1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

zest and juice of 1/2 lemon

5 tablespoon butter

1/2 teaspoon  fresh lavender chopped

1/2 teaspoon honey
1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon of milk

How to make it:

Preheat oven to 375 F. In a bowl mix together flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda,salt, lemon zest and lavender. Add in and mix butter until the texture resembles a coarse
meal. Mix together lemon juice with the milk and honey and add to the scone mixture. Combine until dough just comes together.

On a lightly floured surface, shape dough into a disc shape and just slice the disc into 10 pieces. Place scones on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush with remaining tablespoon of milk and sprinkle the tops lightly with some sugar decorate with lavender flowers. Bake for about 20 minutes or until lightly golden on the top.

Enjoy!

Pri =)

get all of the ingredients measured first 

after you add the butter you are looking for a coarse meal texture

Make it pretty!

just out of the oven

Yum!

And that's Ethan's breakfast!