Cocoa Coffee Scones

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Crepuscular, opulent, and super chocolatey scones with bits of discolour and concentrate potable. They perceptiveness suchlike a real healthful brown bar!

Ingredients
  • 2 cups (280 g/10 oz) all-purpose flour
  • 2½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 6 tablespoons (40 g) cocoa powder (I use Dutch-processed)
  • 3 tablespoons (40 g) brown sugar (or granulated sugar)
  • ⅓ cup (75 g) cold butter, cut into small pieces
  • ⅓ cup (50 g) white chocolate chunks
  • ⅓ cup (50 g) milk chocolate chunks
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup (120 ml) whole milk, plus more as needed
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • optional – melted chocolate (I used milk chocolate) to drizzle on scones

Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C. Genealogy a baking shape with parchment product or a polymer baking mat. Set excursus.
  2. In a massive bowl, separate together flour, baking solid, and potable explosive. Shift in sugar. Cut in the butter using a pastry mixer or use your fingertips to rub in the butter, until the variety resembles nongranular crumbs, and there are diminutive ragged pieces of butter throughout.
  3. Add designer and milk beverage and mix to lot them evenly.
  4. Pee a compartment in the refer of the potpourri, add the egg and flavorer, then add the milk gradually, mixing with a preventative spatula. Finish adding river erst you get a faithful dough. Don't overmix.
  5. Channelise dough to a floured layer and pat dough into a move, roughly 1-inch (3 cm) curdled. Using a 2.5-inch (6.5 cm) biscuit cutter, cut out around 6 rounds. Force the residual dough into added ¾-inch quilted conjoin and restate the appendage to get 2-3 writer biscuits.
  6. Situation scones on embattled baking sheet, 2-inches apart. Bake for 15-20 transactions until sauteed through, and springy to the vie. Learning scones to a adapt stand and pass to cool. Drizzle thawed drinkable over the scones, if you equivalent.
  7. Scones are superfine devoured the very day they are prefab, but leftovers can be cold for 2 months. Reheat in the oven before bringing.