CHOCOLATE CHIP OR STRAWBERRY SCONES

CHOCOLATE CHIP OR STRAWBERRY SCONES image

Categories Fruit

Number Of Ingredients 17

Ingredients

Ingredients
4 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons sugar, plus additional for sprinkling
2 tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
3/4 pound cold unsalted butter, diced
4 extra-large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup cold heavy cream
3/4 cup small-diced dried strawberries
1 egg beaten with 2 tablespoons water or milk, for egg wash
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine 4 cups of flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, baking powder, and salt. Blend in the cold butter at the lowest speed and mix until the butter is in pea-sized pieces. Combine the eggs and heavy cream and quickly add them to the flour and butter mixture. Combine until just blended. Toss the strawberries with 1 tablespoon of flour, add them to the dough, and mix quickly. The dough may be a bit sticky.
Dump the dough out onto a well-floured surface and be sure it is well combined. Flour your hands and a rolling pin and roll the dough 3/4-inch thick. You should see lumps of butter in the dough. Cut into squares with a 4-inch plain or fluted cutter, and then cut them in half diagonally to make triangles. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Brush the tops with egg wash. Sprinkle with sugar and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the outsides are crisp and the insides are fully baked.
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i do half the recipe and make 8, pat to about a 7 inch square, cut in 4 and then in triangles. This may bother my GI? but had before lunch, so maybe that's why? MS scones are lighter, but m and d both prefer this base. Made b/b, this with the dried strawberries, and i did 1/2 cup of those, and MS with blueberries. I also double the sugar in this (i already updated above, orig calls for 2 T for 4 cups flour). I really love this, much better than ms at least when did that with blueberries. I hope it doesn't bother me. Would be great i think also with dried blueberries (i think real like did in MS make soggy), or cranberries, or chocolate chips. Did also with 1/2 cup nestle semi chips and loved better than with dried strawberries but do keep cup flat not heaped.