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Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 C Flour, cake
¾ t Salt
1 T Baking Powder
¼ C Sugar
5 T Butter, cold, unsalted, cut into ½ inch pieces
2/3 C Chocolate Chips, semi-sweet
1 lg. Egg
2/3 to ¾ C Heavy Cream
1 t Vanilla Extract
1 T Sugar, demerara, raw, turbinado
Directions:
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together cake flour, salt, baking powder and sugar.
4. Add pieces of cold butter.
5. Use your fingertips to rub butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse crumbs with pea-size clumps of butter within.
6. Stir in chocolate chips.
7. In a small bowl, whisk together 2/3 cup heavy cream, egg and vanilla.
8. Make a well in center of dry ingredients, then add cream mixture.
9. Use a rubber spatula to mix until dough comes together.
10. It should be a bit sticky.
11. If it seems dry, add remaining 2 tablespoons of cream.
12. Dust work surface lightly with flour, then dump sticky dough on top.
13. Knead very gently a few times until dough comes together into a ball. (Sprinkle more flour, little by little, if dough is too sticky to work with.)
14. Press dough into a circle about ¾ inch high, then cut into 8 wedges.
15. Transfer wedges to a prepared baking sheet, and then sprinkle with demerara sugar.
16. Bake 12 to 15 minutes, until lightly golden and firm to the touch.
17. Serve warm.

Yield: 8 Scones
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
8

 

 

 

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