Have you ever experienced a morning when:

1. Your usual eggs and toast just won't cut it for breakfast.
2. You're feeling lazy and you just don't want to exert too much effort to cook food.
3. There aren't too many food options in the fridge.
4. You want to try something new.

A quick Google search got me a few recipes and I picked the easiest one I could find with ingredients available in our pantry - butter, flour, baking soda, eggs, heavy cream. Plus chocolate chips. Because why not? I'm not making any sense. Hehe.

I halved the recipe because I wasn't sure that they'd turn out okay and I had an inkling that the husband won't be a fan. Anyway, here's a rundown of what happened during my "first attempt" on scones. Well, chocolate chip scones.

Quick takeaway: Fast, easy, and filling.

• It took me less than 10 minutes to get the dough ready and another 20 minutes to bake them.
• No complicated mixing required; I didn't even use a whisk or mixer, just a fork and my hands.
• You will need a round biscuit/cookie cutter. Although I think slicing them up into squares would work just the same.
• The scones came out quite pretty with shiny tops. They weren't too sweet. I dolloped some butter and jam on them and butter makes everything taste so much better, right?
• I was halfway through eating my second scone and I was already full.

One tip though: if you want to halve the recipe like I did, print it out with the halved measurements. Or print it out as is and edit the measurements manually using a pen. You don't want to get the measurements all wrong like I almost did with the heavy cream. Good thing I caught my mistake before messing everything up. Hehe.

Have you tried to bake something recently for the first time? How was your experience? Maybe you have a recipe for the perfect scones? Please let me know! :)