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Chocolate Chip Scones

These tender and buttery chocolate chip scones are simple to make in just over half an hour! My recipe includes an optional sweet vanilla glaze for a bakery-style look. Recipe includes a how-to video!

Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
33 mins
Servings: 16 mini scones
Calories: 205 kcal
Course: Dessert , Breakfast
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter very cold and cut into cubes
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup mini chocolate chips
Vanilla Glaze (optional)
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2-4 Tablespoons milk
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. In the basin of a food processor, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Cover with lid and pulse to combine.
  3. Scatter cold butter pieces over the flour mixture and pulse again until butter pieces are mostly combined but some discernible pieces (no larger than pea-sized) remain.
  4. Combine heavy cream and vanilla extract in a measuring cup and whisk together. Pour evenly over flour/butter mixture.
  5. Pulse again until the mixture is mostly combined and beginning to cling together.
  6. Transfer to a clean, lightly floured surface and sprinkle chocolate chips overtop. Use your hands to gently work the dough together, distributing the chocolate chips as you go, until you have a disc. Fold dough over itself, turn 90 degrees and fold again. Repeat this 4 more times.
  7. Form dough into 2 separate 4” (10cm) discs (for mini scones) or one 6” (15cm) discs (for regular scones).
  8. Using a sharp knife, cut each disc into 8 wedges, pressing straight down with each cut (don’t saw).
  9. Transfer scones to prepared baking sheet, spacing 1” apart. Transfer to preheated oven and bake for 13-14 minutes, until cooked through.
  10. Allow scones to cool on baking sheet. Once cooled, top with vanilla glaze, if desired.
Vanilla Glaze
  1. Whisk together powdered sugar, 2 Tablespoons milk, and vanilla extract. Add more milk as needed until glaze is smooth and drizzles off the whisk.
  2. Dip the tops of cooled scones in glaze or drizzle with glaze. Allow glaze to set before serving.

Notes

  • If you don’t have a food processor you can make the scones by whisking together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with either a pastry cutter, box grater, or pair of knives. Whisk together heavy cream and vanilla and pour over and stir until well-combined. The dough will be very dry but will come together with some effort. If absolutely necessary you can add a bit more cream, a splash at a time.
  • Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.
  • This recipe was updated January of 2023. I improved the recipe to give it a greater depth of flavor and to make it easier to assemble with the same light and buttery results. The new recipe is my preference (and my many blind taste-testers agreed.) However, if you are looking for the original recipe, you can find my original chocolate chip scones here. I recommend the new recipe and am no longer accepting comments or questions on the original recipe. 

Nutrition Information

Serving 1mini scone Calories 205kcal (10%) Carbohydrates 27g (9%) Protein 2g (4%) Fat 10g (15%) Saturated Fat 6g (30%) Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g Monounsaturated Fat 2g Trans Fat 0.2g Cholesterol 25mg (8%) Sodium 75mg (3%) Potassium 33mg (1%) Fiber 1g (4%) Sugar 15g (30%) Vitamin A 302IU (6%) Vitamin C 0.1mg (0%) Calcium 48mg (5%) Iron 1mg (6%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 16mini scones

Amount Per Serving

Calories 205

% Daily Value*

Serving 1mini scone
Calories 205kcal 10%
Carbohydrates 27g 9%
Protein 2g 4%
Fat 10g 15%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g 2%
Monounsaturated Fat 2g 10%
Trans Fat 0.2g 10%
Cholesterol 25mg 8%
Sodium 75mg 3%
Potassium 33mg 1%
Fiber 1g 4%
Sugar 15g 30%
Vitamin A 302IU 6%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Calcium 48mg 5%
Iron 1mg 6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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