Just made this recipe for the second day in a row-- It's easy and absolutely delicious. I used the natural, Spectrum brand shortening and used coconut sugar in place of Maple sugar because I did not have Maple sugar (which I'm sure is delicious). But even so, the cookies turned out beautifully! Having the dark and light sugar crystals on the outside of the cookie looked really nice. The bake time worked perfectly for mine-- they remained soft. My daughter took them to her youth group, and she said the kids went "nuts" over them :)

These are amazing. Unlike other reviewers, I preferred not to use a food processor. It was no problem to hand-grate the frozen butter into the flour and the scones were so wonderful. My hubby can not get enough of them. I made them with raisins, but think orange/cranberry would be wonderful; so they will be next :)

This syrup is delicious! I love being able to control the sweetness; I used a mixture of stevia and agave nectar for a naturally low-cal syrup.