Banana Chocolate Scones | 365 Days of Baking and Extra

15 de January de 2024

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Banana Chocolate Scones are smooth, moist, and filled with chocolate chips! Sweetened with honey and calmly spiced, these banana scones pair completely together with your morning espresso.

Bananas and chocolate make such a scrumptious duo. If you happen to like this Double Chocolate Banana Bread, you’re going to adore immediately’s banana chocolate chip scone recipe!

You’ll love how straightforward these scones are to make — and the way unbelievable they make your kitchen scent.

In the present day’s banana chocolate scones mix the very best elements of a few of my favourite baked items. I really like banana bread, and scones are so mild and scrumptious! This recipe takes the candy taste and aroma of fine banana bread and bakes it into scones. Add a handful of chocolate and you’ve got pure breakfast perfection!

Any day that begins with a freshly baked scone has received to be good, proper?

This scone recipe addresses a typical criticism I’ve about scones. Too many do-it-yourself scones get dry and crumbly inside just a few hours of baking. I do know some folks like that extra biscuit-like crumb.

I want my scones extra on the smooth aspect, someplace between a biscuit and a muffin. The banana in these scones, together with a little bit do-it-yourself buttermilk, means they keep moist and tender longer. Even a day or two after baking, the banana chocolate scones tasted smooth, flavorful, and scrumptious.

Ingredients for Banana Chocolate Scones.

What do I want?

This recipe contains acquainted baking elements plus just a few much less widespread ones:

Flour
Baking powder
Cinnamon
Kosher salt – Or use any coarse salt.
Nutmeg
Ripe Bananas – Peel and mash them in a separate bowl first.
Butter – Chilly butter is greatest to provide the scones a flaky, biscuity texture.
Egg
Honey
Buttermilk – Like all of my favourite scone recipes, these Banana Chocolate Scones are made with buttermilk — or do-it-yourself soured milk. The curdled milk helps the scones rise good and in addition ensures a softer, moister scone.
Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (or use darkish chocolate for an extra-rich taste)

See the recipe card beneath for precise quantities.

Process photos for Banana Chocolate Scones.

Tips on how to Make Banana Chocolate Chip Scones

STEP 1. Make do-it-yourself buttermilk.

Whisk a teaspoon of vinegar into ⅓ cup of milk. Let sit for quarter-hour or so till it appears to be like curdled and a little bit bubbly. You should utilize any sort of milk to make buttermilk. I often use 2% as a result of that’s what I’ve readily available.

STEP 2. Make the dough

Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a big mixing bowl. Use a pastry blender to “minimize” the butter into the flour combination till it grow to be coarse. Add the egg, buttermilk, honey, mashed banana, and mini chocolate chips to the dry elements with a rubber spatula or wood spoon. Combine till every part comes collectively in a thick dough.

STEP 3. Reduce the scones.

Now, it’s time to chop the scones into the basic wedge form!

Lay out the dough on a clear, floured floor. Divide the dough in half and pat every right into a circle roughly 5 inches in diameter.

Utilizing a pointy knife, minimize the dough into 6 wedges and switch your complete spherical disk of dough to a big baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Chopping it earlier than baking permits for straightforward separation, however maintaining the wedges collectively throughout baking allowed for the scones to be a bit extra moist than is typical of many scones.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 400 F. They’re finished baking when the tops of the scones are calmly golden brown and agency. Switch to a wire rack and let cool fully earlier than serving.

A plate of Chocolate chip Banana Scones.

Recipe Suggestions and Methods for Good Scones

These style candy and scrumptious all on their very own. However they’re additionally AMAZING with a pat of heat butter unfold on prime.
If you happen to occur to have buttermilk readily available, go forward and skip the step of constructing soured milk and use buttermilk as an alternative.
For preferrred sweetness, moisture, and wealthy banana taste, ensure your bananas are very ripe. Overripe bananas work nice right here too!
Preserve the scones shut collectively (touching or nearly touching) whereas baking. This helps the scones end up additional moist!
Banana Chocolate Scones will preserve properly for a few days saved in a lined container, however I believe they’re greatest served contemporary the identical day.

Are you able to freeze scones?

All scones freeze properly, and these banana scones freeze superbly. Retailer in hermetic containers or freezer luggage to stop undesirable freezer burn. Thaw to room temperature (or defrost within the microwave) earlier than serving.

Bake up a batch of banana chocolate scones on the weekend and pop them within the freezer for straightforward on-the-go breakfasts or snacks all through the week. Nobody will probably be unhappy to have a provide of do-it-yourself scones within the freezer!

Scone Recipes

If you happen to like fruit in your scones, be sure you additionally add Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze and Peach Scones to your checklist.

My Blood Orange Marmalade Scones style unbelievable with a cup of robust black tea. You’ll love these Lemon Poppy Seed Scones too. Currently, I’ve been into the tangy taste that cream cheese provides to baked items like muffins and scones alike. These Raspberry Cream Cheese Scones and Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are two tasty examples! I’ve even received a yummy Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bread.

Extra Banana Chocolate Recipes

If you happen to’ve been studying right here for some time you’ll have seen I’ve sort of a factor for chocolate and banana. Individually, they’re great. Nobody will flip down an Straightforward Chocolate Bear Claw or a Banana Oat Bran Peanut Butter Chip Muffin.

However if you put bananas and chocolate collectively? They’re merely magical.

From a loaf of Double Chocolate Banana Bread to a slice of Banana Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake, I adore it all. After you make these scones, you additionally must attempt these Chocolate Banana Muffins.

Perhaps the one factor that may enhance the banana + chocolate combo is the addition of peanut butter! This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is to die for.

However for immediately, I’ll be saving all of my love for the batch of heat banana chocolate scones that simply got here out of my oven. I can’t wait so that you can attempt these!

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Created by: Lynne Feifer

Banana Chocolate Scones

Prep Time 10

Prepare dinner Time 25

Complete Time 35

Banana Chocolate Scones are smooth, moist, and filled with chocolate chips! Sweetened with honey and calmly spiced, these straightforward banana scones pair completely together with your morning espresso or afternoon cup of tea.

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Directions

Place a rack into the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 levels F.
Put together a baking sheet by lining it with parchment.
In a big mixing bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg.
Reduce butter into smaller items and with a pastry cutter, minimize butter into the flour combination till it resembles coarse meal.
In a small mixing bowl, whisk the egg.
Add the honey, buttermilk and bananas and blend.
Pour the combination into the dry elements together with the mini chocolate chips, and stir till it simply comes collectively.
Add the Lake Champlain Chocolate Previous World Ingesting Chocolate, and utilizing a rubber spatula, knead and fold it collectively about 8 to 10 instances.
Divide the dough in half and pat every right into a circle roughly 5 inches in diameter. Reduce the dough into 6 wedges and switch your complete disk of dough to the ready baking sheet. Chopping it earlier than baking permits for straightforward separation, however maintaining the wedges collectively throughout baking allowed for the scones to be bit extra moist than is typical.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or till tops are calmly golden and agency. Switch to a wire rack to chill fully.

Notes

Measure 1/3 cup milk right into a measuring cup. Pour 1 teaspoon white vinegar into the milk. Combine and permit to take a seat for quarter-hour. Use as directed.

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This publish was initially revealed Could 10, 2015. It has been up to date in format and with footage on January 15, 2024.

Banana Chocolate Scones - the perfect treat with breakfast or brunch.