I have been meaning to put this recipe on here for quite awhile, but just haven’t gotten to it yet. Tonight we are going to have our only booth with all our crafty stuff at the Ladies in Pink evening at the college in Sheldon. So, in honor of that and breast cancer awareness month, I have sugared my scones pink. This is a great recipe though and it can be used for more than just chocolate chips. Imagine your favorite cranberry scone, or blueberry scone, or even an almond flavored one with little almond slivers on top? The possibilities are endless! And, it’s so simple to make, that soon you will be like me and have to make these for your family at least once a week!
So, to start out, mix your flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in the mixer together like this:
Pretty boring, right?
Add a little fun to it with the chocolate chips (or blueberries or cranberries or whatever you want)
Now comes the fun and ease. The recipe I copied this from says to knead this together. I, as a busy mom, said “yeah right” and use my trusty KitchenAid and got this done much easier by slowly pouring the cream into the bowl while mixing. Much easier. Now, big note hear, you must use the heavy whipping cream. Half and half and other milks just won’t do it and you’ll end up with more of a bread texture.
As you can see, it slowly forms a ball. There may be a few crumbs of flour left at the bottom you can mix in by hand, or just do like me and ignore it or add more cream to that.
Next divide the dough into two balls, flour your surface, flatten the dough and cut it like a pizza into 8 triangles. The rolled out dough should be fairly thick, so if it’s about the size of my hand, I figure it’s good enough.
After it’s cut out, place it on your pan and then brush it with the melted butter and sprinkle with sugar. I like to improvise here a little and make it fun for the kids. This year for 4th of July I cut them all into stars with a cookie cutter and sprinkled them with red, white, and blue sugar. Today I used pink sugar and white sugar, mostly cause if my son and husband had to eat pink, they might have freaked.
I personally think the pink ones are prettier!
Finally bake them for 15-17 minutes at 375 degrees and they’ll come out looking beautiful!
Now doesn’t that look good? So go home tonight and grab yourself some heavy cream on the way and make up these scones for your family in the morning! They’ll love you for it!
Chocolate Chip Scones
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease two cookie sheets.
Mix together first five ingredients. Pour in cream and stir with mixer until the flour mixture is moistened and forms a ball. Divide dough into two to three equal-sized balls. Flatten dough into a circle (use your hands to flatten the dough out) and cut each dough circle into eight triangles. Place on cookie sheets about two inches apart. Brush tops with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm.
