Chocolate chip scones, small batch style.Recipe for cream scones that makes just 4 perfect flaky scones studded with chocolate chips.Bakery-style Chocolate Chip Scone Recipe I consider myself famous for my scones (in my own mind, anyway), and you guys are asking for more variations.

My quest for a great scone recipe starts with a desire for a breakfast pastry without as much sugar as a muffin.I love a great muffin, especially my coffee cake muffins, one-bowl chocolate banana muffins, and my gingerbread muffins that are not just for the holidays! However, I usually find myself eating muffins for a dessert rather than a breakfast.It's not that I'm Saintly and avoid sugar in the mornings--it's that my tea has enough honey to cover my sugar bases first thing in the morning.

So, a slightly-less-sweet scone for breakfast sounds perfect to me.Chocolate Chip Scone Recipe ingredients Flour.One and a quarter cups of all-purpose flour that has been fluffed and scooped into measuring cups before being leveled off.

Sugar.Scones are lightly sweet, so this recipe only requires ¼ cup of granulated sugar.Salt.

I prefer to bake with fine sea salt.Baking Soda.We need ¼ teaspoon of baking soda.

Baking Powder.One full teaspoon of baking powder.Make sure it’s fresh and not expired.

Butter.Four tablespoons, or half a stick of unsalted butter that is still cold, straight from the fridge.Heavy Cream.

One-third cup of heavy cream plus two tab

Read More