Yields: At least 2 Dozen
Dry Ingredients:
• 3 ½ C Flour, All-Purpose
• ¼ C Sugar
• 3 T Baking Powder
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Additional Ingredients:
• 1 stick Butter, Cold
• 1 ¼ C Milk, Cold
• 1 ½ - 2 C Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks/Chips
Directions:
1. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a hand mixer), mix the DRY ingredients together.
3. Grab a stick of butter from the fridge and cut into pieces. With the mixer running add butter until course and ‘sandy’. You should still be able to see lumps of butter in the mixture.
4. Grab 1 ¼ C milk from the fridge and let mix until almost combined.
5. Add chocolate chunks (almost a full bag which is equal to 2 C). Mix just to distribute them evenly through the dough. DO NOT over mix.
6. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface & knead 10 times to bring it together.
7. Separate into 2 even pieces, and smooth out into circle shapes.
8. Using your hands or a rolling pin, roll or pat out to 1-inch thick.
** You may also roll out and cut with a round biscuit/cookie cutter.
9. Cut each circle in half, & cut into desired amount of pieces like a pie.
**The smaller the pieces, the more you need to watch the bake time.
Note: After transferring each piece to an un-greased cookie sheet, you may also brush an egg wash (1T water with one egg, beaten) over scones and top with sugar for a nice finished touch.
10. Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes
I hope you and your company ENJOY these lovely and delicious scones.
They may be served alone for a quick snack or breakfast or with an entire breakfast/brunch spread.
**Project Note:
You can also put all dry ingredients into a wide mouth canning jar, and attach a recipe card with complete instructions for others to complete recipe. [They of course will provide the wet ingredients for recipe] Wrap a nice piece of cloth around lid and tie off with a piece of decorative string and attach recipe card, before giving.
~Breeze
