Double Chocolate Scones

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3/4 cup mini chocolate chip
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450°f lightly grease a large cookie sheet.
• 2 stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl to mix well.
• 3 cut in butter with fingers until texture resembles wet sand.
• 4 in a seperate bowl, beat the eggs and milk.
• 5 add this mixture and 1/2 of the mini-chips to the dry ingredients.
• 6 mix well with hands.
• 7 shape the dough into an 8-inch round on the prepared cookie sheet; dust with flour.
• 8 score the top of the dough into 8 wedges with a sharp knife.
• 9 bake for 20 to 25 minutes until golden.
• 10 let cool.
• 11 meanwhile, stir the remaining mini-chips and the chocolate chips into seperate saucepans over very low heat until melted and smooth.
• 12 drizzle each chocolate from the tip of of spoon in random lines over the top of the scones.
• 13 let stand for 15 minutes to set the chocolate.
• 14 cut the scones into wedges along the score lines.