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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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A little butter; some fresh fruit; and coffee with steaming cream. Perfect!! Ingredients:
4 cups unsifted all-purpose flour |
1/3 cup sugar |
4 teaspoons baking powder |
1 teaspoon salt |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
2/3 cup butter |
1 1/3 cups buttermilk |
2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
2 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted |
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 425F.
2. Grease large baking sheet.
3. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
4. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
5. Remove 1 1/4 c.
6. flour mixture to medium-size bowl.
7. In small bowl, combine buttermilk and vanilla.
8. In cup, combine 1/4 c.
9. buttermilk mixture and chocolate.
10. Add remaining buttermilk mixture to remaining flour mixture in large bowl and mix lightly with fork until mixture clings together and forms a soft dough.
11. Add chocolate mixture to the1 1/4 c.
12. flour mixture and stir with fork until it forms a soft dough.
13. Turn both doughs out onto lightly floured surface; divide chocolate dough into 6 pieces.
14. Dot 3 chocolate pieces over surface of plain dough.
15. Fold dough over and dot with remaininng 3 pieces; knead gently 5-6 times to marbelize dough.
16. Divide dough in half.
17. With lightly floured rolling pin, roll one half into a 7 round.
18. Cut into 4 wedges.
19. Repeat with remaining half of dough.
20. Place scones, 1 apart, on greased baking sheet.
21. Pierce tops with tines of fork.
22. Bake scones 15-18 min.
23. or until golden brown.
24. Serve warm.
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