Chocolate and Orange Scones

A dessert that combines two of my favourite flavours: chocolate, and orange.

Chocolate and Orange Scones

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Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 8-9 scones

So, I did promise the recipe for the scones… Below are my VD scones (though I didn’t put enough baking soda in, and ended up making oversized cookies. They are supposed to look a bit better than this normally):

A dessert that combines two of my favourite flavours: chocolate, and orange.

Chocolate and Orange Scones
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: English
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Serves: 8-9 scones
 
A dessert that combines two of my favourite flavours: chocolate, and orange.
Ingredients
  • 230 g flour
  • 11 g baking soda
  • 60g butter
  • 1 teaspoon caster sugar
  • 145 mL of milk
  • 1 tablespoon Orange Blossom water
  • 120g chocolate, chopped into coarse bits
  • Zest of half an orange, chopped into tiny bits
  • Pinch of salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven at 200°C. Leave the butter out to soften a bit.
  2. Sift the flour, the sugar and the baking soda in a bowl, and gently rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the milk little by little, until you have a spongy dough.
  3. Work in the orange blossom water, the orange zest and the chocolate chips until the dough is smooth and uniform.
  4. Grease a baking sheet. Divide the dough into 8-9 parts and shape it like cylinders (roughly 5cm across, 1cm thick). Or, if it's too much trouble, just put dollops of the dough onto the baking sheet 🙂
  5. Bake for about 15-20 minutes, until the scones are risen and light golden in colour.

 

Enjoy :=) (I originally was looking for a chocolate and orange scone recipe after eating very tasty ones in Montreal, but couldn’t find one that worked on the net. In the end, I adapted this from the plain oven scones recipe contained in Scottish Teatime Recipes by Johanna Mathie)