Teatime no longer needs to be accompanied by plain old scones. This cookbook uses basic scone recipes as a pallet for a wide range of flavors and ingredients. All the recipes are created with simple-to-follow instructions to help you create a variety of sweet and savory treats for yourself and your family and friends. What you will find in this cookbook: - Straight-forward baking tips and instructions. - Sweet and savory recipes. - Alternative recipes for those on gluten-free and vegan diets. - Recipes for toppings like glazes and lemon curd. 50 Shades of Scones is a companion cookbook for the Madeline McPhee mystery series and includes a few references to the mysteries and their characters. It began as a spark of an idea that morphed into a pandemic isolation relief project by the author and her friends and was assisted greatly by family members and neighbors willing to eat some of the many millions (a wee exaggeration) of scones baked during this project. This book is not affiliated with or related to books by E. L. James.