Combine your pancake mix, salt, sugar and baking powder into a bowl and somehow spill most of your mix all over the place
Get your cold butter cut up, slice your finger open while doing so
Bleed from finger
Go get a bandaid you took from the HR lady's desk at work because you knew you were fresh out at home and realize this is a sign that you should just quit here because it's only going to get more disappointing from this point forward
Add cold butter to dry ingredients and mix until it's mostly incorporated. There's supposed to be butter chunks, so just let the little bastards chill and do something else
Add egg, milk and vanilla extract to a bowl and whisk together
Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix until combined.
Realize your "dough" looks nothing like scone dough and resembles actual pancake batter instead. Try to add some flour, realize it does nothing
Scrape this garbage dough onto your sheet pan into something that resembles a circle. Brush some milk on top and sprinkle with brown sugar
Try to cut this stupid blob into four separate pieces and separate. Realize they don't separate because it's not actual dough and is too wet. Say fuck it and stick it in the freezer to let the gluten rest anyway
Move all of the bottles of booze in your freezer to make room for the pan. Consider making a gin and tonic for breakfast. Open second La Croix instead
Pre-heat oven to 375 while the "dough" rests in the freezer for 30 minutes. Clean up the mess you made from simply putting things in bowls
After 30 minutes of cleaning and entertaining your cat, pull the pan out of the freezer, brush tops with egg whites and pop them in the oven for 20 minutes
Laugh out loud at how they're still wet, flat garbage discs on a pan. Come to an understanding that there is absolutely no way these will turn out
Look up pictures of how scone dough is suppose to look before going in the oven. Understand it looks nothing like yours. Somehow still have optimism they might turn out. Make your stupid icing
In a small bowl, add syrup and powdered sugar and mix. I added a bit of almond milk to help smooth it out a bit. It doesn't really fucking matter you won't use it anyway
Remove giant blob of what appear to be pancake cookies from oven and let cool. Cut into shapes that more closely resemble scones
Start making something else for breakfast. In my case, it was a delightful egg and spinach sandwich on a bagel flat with some coffee
Taste a "scone" and realize they taste great but aren't scones and place in garbage can.
Just kidding, eat them all regardless.
Also make and eat a breakfast sandwich and post failures publicly online