Easy Mothers' Day treats: blueberry scones and fruit bouquets

Mothers' Day has snuck up on sons and daughters, of all ages, yet again. With only a few days left the scramble to find the perfect gift worthy of matching our mothers’ unconditional love is on.

Flowers, jewelry and gift cards are drab, overdone and expected. This Mother’s Day morning surprise your mom with homemade, flaky blueberry scones to go with her cup of coffee or tea.

Worried about your baking skills? Don’t be. Scones may look like the intricate fancy pastries you would see illuminated in the window of a Paris bakery but they’re actually quite simple to make.

An easy scone recipe was created by Food Network’s Tyler Florence. First demonstrated on his show, Food 911 in an episode called B&B Breakfast, Florence's recipe is available at Food Network.

These blueberry scones only take 15-20 minutes to bake, according to Florence's recipe. This leaves just enough time to brew mom a cup of coffee and cut up fresh fruit to round out her perfect Mothers' Day morning.

As if blueberry scones didn’t sound mouth watering enough, Florence also created a lemon glaze to top them. The recipe for the topping is available on the same recipe page on the Food Network site.

Alterations to the scones can also be made. Chocolate chips, raisins or cinnamon chips work for this recipe as well.

View the video below to watch Tyler Florence prepare these scones.

If this doesn’t seem like the recipe that will knock your mom’s slippers off, recipe websites like Food Network and Food Gawker have thousands of options from cookies and cakes to vegan and vegetarian options for moms with diet restrictions.

Yet, what about ideas for little kids who aren’t quite at the age where they can operate an oven?

Kix Cereal created a way for kids to make mom a fruit and Kix flower bouquet, with a little bit of adult supervision.

Instead of overpaying for professionally-made fruit bouquet, Kix had the idea that buying heart and flower shaped fruit cutters and using them on assorted melons, like honeydew, cantaloupe and watermelon, for a much cheaper and more personalized version.

Kix stated that the fruit cut-outs can be put on skewers and place, fruit side up, into a mason jar filled with Kix cereal. It is a simple homemade fruit bouquet that the whole family can help with.