When Cassie and I first started documenting our baking adventures in the kitchen, we let some people know we were looking for some family favorites to try out. I have a few recipes from my Grandma, my sister, my mom, a couple of Aunts, that are really good. And I’ll post about all of them, eventually. But we like to try new things, test our skills, see if we can do it with what we have here at the house.
And make a mess of the kitchen! It’s part of our girl time.
Cassie is the most hands on. She and I will get in there, roll up our sleeves, put an apron on and even sometimes talk the entire time with an accent, maybe British, maybe German, maybe Italian. I’m sure we are insulting all of them with our terrible renditions, but we have fun. Maybe we’re just trying to channel Julia Child.
Grace likes to take my pictures for me, and she’s pretty good at it. She gets a different angle than me (being so much shorter.) And is always ready to taste test batter or clean up beaters (lick them.)
CJ loves to try it all out. Now I have to say, he’ll eat anything but he will tell me if it’s good or bad. And he’s starting to think he’s a food critic. “maybe if you add a little….” or ” I think it could use some….” But that’s ok, he’s thinking about cooking and how to spice something up which he’ll need when he’s living on his own and can only afford a box of noodles and some broth!
So back to today’s recipe. My cousin Kim sent it to me, one of her favorites! When I read it the first time, I was intimidated. Not by what it was, a scone is after all, an English sweet biscuit of sorts. No, the very first direction was put stuff in a food processor. I don’t have one of those. Then a little further down, when you are done with the food processor, put it in your Kitchenaid stand mixer. I didn’t have one of those either. So I put off making this recipe for a few months.
Well, I got my Kitchenaid, finally, so I decided it was time to tackle this recipe, without a food processor. And it can be done. In fact, it was easy!
So if you don’t have a food processor or a stand mixer, don’t be put off, you can still do this. Just work with what you have.
Chocolate Chip Scones
from Kim Roberson
recipe source ChocolateChocolateandmore.comScones with chocolate chips
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I love this recipe! Slightly sweet, but not like a cake, and the possibilities, change out the chocolate chips for dried fruit or nuts, add some spices maybe? We’ll be playing with this recipe! Thanks Kim!
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Hi Joan
what’s not to love about chocolate! those scones look so good, I would love one right now to go with my coffee!
Great to meet you!
Dennis
Thanks Chef! High praise coming from you!
Hugs,
Joan
hi Joan.
first, nice to meet you. Second, I love these scones. I’m such a scone lover and could eat them all day. And chocolate? triple YUM!
Roxana, thanks for dropping by, I’d only had scones a few times before and they were dry and hard. Now that I’ve made these, I have to rethink my whole scone philosophy. These were moist and light, a sweet biscuit as my hubby called them.
And everything is better with chocolate!
Hi Joan,
I’m always looking for more, good scone recipes! I’m writing a book about tea, and a good scone is a cup of tea’s soulmate. Thanks for posting this! Can’t wait to try it.
~Melissa Placzek
http://www.ChinDeep.com
Melissa, we made these for a tea party my girls wanted to have one afternoon, you are right, just perfect for tea time!
Yum I have to make these! Besides everything else on here ๐
I know this is going to sound bonkers buuut…if you sub OJ for the heavy cream you have the most delicious chocolate chip scone EVER!!
I made these scones last night. They weren’t sweet enough for a scone…..more of a “biscuit”.
Just made these and the batch is in the oven baking as I type this. the aroma in my kitchen right now… “omg” to say the least ๐