Chocolate chip and walnut Scones
Sugar-Free Scones – Chocolate chip and walnut
These little sugar-free scones are flaky and delicious – perfect for afternoon tea or brunch.
Equipment
- bowl
- Baking tray
Ingredients
- 250 g AP flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 75 g butter cold from the fridge and cut into small pieces
- 60 g chocolate chips
- 40 g chopped walnuts
- 1 egg
- 110 g cream or 90 g milk and 30 g whole milk yogurt
- 15 g maple syrup optional
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt and stir well to combine.
- Add the butter to the dry ingredients and rub it into the dry ingredients using your fingertips. Keep going until there are no large pieces of butter left.
- Tip in the walnuts and chocolate chips and stir until evenly distributed.
- In a small bowl or jug, combine the egg and cream (or egg, milk and yogurt) and whisk until smooth. Pour this into the flour mixture and carefully work it all together with a fork or a bowl scraper.
- Tip the mixture onto your counter and knead it together very gently until it just about stays together. It’s better to under knead at this point. Press the dough into a round disk about 1 – 1.5 inches thick and slice into 8 wedges.
- Brush with a little extra cream if you would like and bake for 20 minutes and then set aside to cool.
Notes
Dairy Products:
Scones are reasonably forgiving, so you can play around with the dairy products you use. You want to aim for a mixture of milk, cream and yogurt that weighs about 115 g in total. For rich indulgent scones, use just straight cream. For a slightly less rich scone, use a combination of milk and yogurt. The yogurt adds a bit of fat and will help with the rise of your scones, while the milk will give you the liquid content you need. Lastly, you can also make these with buttermilk for a more classically American take on scones.
Sugar-free:
I’ve included an optional splash of maple syrup here, but they’ll be delicious without the syrup if you’d like to skip the sweetener. For a truly sugar-free scone, make sure you choose dark chocolate that is sugar-free!