2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2–1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1–1/4 cups heavy cream
1–1/2 teaspoons Rain’s Choice pure Vanilla Extract
1 tablespoon cream
1 tablespoon Rain’s Choice Vanilla Sugar
Preheat oven to 425 degrees conventional oven or 375 convection oven.
Take an 8″ cake pan and generously dust it with flour.
In a medium -size bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Stir in the chopped chocolate.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the whipping cream and vanilla. Stir the mixture with a large spatula, pressing down the dough along the sides of the bowl to moisten all of the dry ingredients. The dough will look a little shaggy.
Place the dough into the floured 8:” pan and press the dought into the pan with your fingertips. Work quickly as you don’t want the dough to become warm.
Invert the disk of dough onto a lightly floured counter-top and brush off excess flour with a dry pastry brush.
Slice the dough into 12 wedges and place scones onto a parchment-lined baking pan.
Brush with the remaining 1 tablespoon cream and sprinkle with vanilla sugar.
Bake for 12-15 minutes in a conventional or 1-10 minutes in a convection oven or until tops a light golden hue.
Serve warm.
from Alice Medrich, Bittersweet
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