Marble scones
8 Scones
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | cups | Unsiftcd all-purpose flour |
| ⅓ | cup | Sugar |
| 4 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ⅔ | cup | Butter |
| 1⅓ | cup | Buttermilk |
| 2 | teaspoons | Vanilla extract |
| 2 | 1-oz squares semisweet chocolate, melted | |
Directions
1. Heat oven to 425'F. Grease large baking sheet. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut the butter in until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Remove 1¼ C flour mixture to medium-size bowl. 2. In small bowl, combine buttermilk and vanilla. In cup, combine ¼ C buttermilk mixture and the chocolate. Add remaining buttermilk mixture to remaining flour mixture in large bowl and mix lightly with fork until it clings together and forms a soft dough. Add chocolate mixture to the reserved 1 ¼ C flour mixture in medium-size bowl and stir with fork until it forms a soft dough. 3. Turn both doughs out onto lightly floured surface; divide chocolate dough into 6 pieces. Dot 3 chocolate pieces over surface of plain dough. Fold plain dough over and dot with remaining 3 pieces chocolate dough; knead 5 or 6 times to marbleize dough. Divide dough in half. With lightly floured rolling pin, roll one half of dough into a 7-inch round. Cut into 4 wedges.
Repeat with remaining half of dough. 4. Place scones, 1 inch apart, on greased baking sheet. Pierce tops with tines of fork. 5. Bake scones 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini