Pumpkin scones - a revelation!

It's almost Monday (boo) and yet again the weekend has flown. I've had a truly fabulous one spending time with my honorary third sister and brilliant friend Helen who came to stay for the weekend and kindly offered to pay me for cakes and photos to help me in my fundraising quest. We went to see one of our joint honorary sister's Emma as she was having a housewarming, so took her a yummy batch of brownies and then proceeded to eat most of them ourselves.

In between using up most of the available air in Bedfordshire putting the world to rights, Helen and I had a lot of fun today making pumpkin scones - an amazing new revelation to both of us - and banoffee muffins. The thing I love about cooking is that it feels like legitimised playing for adults, getting your hands dirty and being really tactile with stuff that then rewards you with a second gift of being delicious!

Here are some pics of our scones in various stages of development, which I highly recommend as an accompaniment to cheese or veggie soup, or just warm with some butter. We had them with cornichons and some cranberry & apple chutney I made a few days ago. Altogether a pretty heavenly trio and a win-win way of raising money for Amnesty!

If you fancy some pumpkin scones of your own or something else (the list is pretty endless) please contact me and I will bake you up a treat!