These Chocolate Orange Scones are delicate, tender, and moist with dark chocolate chips and sunny orange flavor throughout. With a simple orange glaze, they're a perfectly sweet treat.
There's so much magic to be found in a simple treat. Whether it's allowing a square of premium chocolate to slowly melt on your tongue or rubbing a rich and beautifully scented lotion into your tired hands, it's definitely going to raise your vibration. Somewhere along the way, someone convinced us that we should constantly be depriving ourselves, settling for less. Someone tried to tell us that fun and pleasure were evil. Those guys suck.
We should all feel totally awesome about sitting down with a cup of our favorite beverage in the afternoon and sinking out teeth into a little something delightfully sweet and delicious. We should all know the joy offering ourselves something that just makes us feel good for no other reason than that we want it. Friends, we don't need to earn pleasure through productivity or suffering. We can have it because feeling joy is what we're meant to do.
What makes Chocolate Orange Scones so awesome?
A Chocolate Orange Scone and a cup of tea in the afternoon would absolutely make my day. The bright sunny flavor of orange zest and juice combined with the dark and deeply pleasurable flavor of smooth chocolate is blissful. And delivered in the vehicle of a moist and tender scone just brings a huge smile to my face.
These are perfect for a small gathering, an afternoon tea, an office meeting that needs a hit of joy, or just to save for yourself with you want a mindful moment of happiness. Because they're baked individually, they're much easier to transport and share than a cake. Imagine showing up at work with a batch of these. You'd be the instant favorite.
Magical Properties of Chocolate
The brilliant thing about witchcraft is that there are so many different ways to interpret it. While I typically associated chocolate with the pleasure seeking planet Venus, other sources say it's ruled by Saturn, the planet of boundaries and limitations. With powerful fire energy, chocolate can be used to call in friendship, grounding, love, and prosperity. (Source: The Kitchen Witch's Guide to Healing & Self-Care by Maggie Haseman)
For more on the magical properties of the ingredients in this recipe, check the Kitchen Magick page.
Ingredients
Here's everything you'll need to make these scones. You'll find all the details in the recipe card below.
- Flour - all-purpose or plain
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Sugar - granulated, super fine, or caster sugar
- Butter - unsalted and cold
- Cream - single or light
- Orange - you need the zest and juice for this recipe
- Chocolate chips - you could also use chocolate chunks or chopped chocolate, go for something darkish
Tips for making Chocolate Orange Scones
These scones use a frozen butter technique. Use a cheese grater to grate your cold butter, then pop that in the freezer while you mix your dry ingredients together. Then stir your cold butter and flour mixture together with a rubber spatula. You can then pop this whole mixture into the freezer for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, measure out your cream and zest your orange over it so that it collects all the essential oils from the orange. When your dry ingredients are out of the freezer, mix in the cream and chocolate into the dry ingredients with a sort of stir and smash motion until your dough comes together.
Turn your dough out onto a floured surface and press it together to form a rectangle about an inch thick. Cut your dough into triangles and bake. When they're beautifully risen with just a hint of golden brown, take them out and let them cool before drizzling them with a simple glaze made of powdered sugar and orange juice.
Simple pleasures are amongst life's greatest gifts. Treat yourself to a Chocolate Orange Scone and feel the joy.
Looking for more awesome scone recipes? Try these Sour Cream Scones or some delicious Pumpkin Scones.
PrintChocolate Orange Scones
These Chocolate Orange Scones are delicate, tender, and moist with dark chocolate chips and sunny orange flavor throughout. With a simple orange glaze, they're a perfectly sweet treat.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 8 scones 1x
- Category: Baked Goods
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 2 ½ ounces unsalted butter, cold
- 2 cups all-purpose or plain flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 ½ cups single or light cream
- Zest of 1 orange
- 100 grams (3.5 ounces) chocolate chips
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- Juice of 1 orange
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 F (200 C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet.
- Grate your butter using the large holes into a bowl and stash this in the freezer while you mix your dry inredients.
- Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar to a mixing bowl and stir to combine. Add the butter to the dry ingredients and stir this in as well. Then put your mixing bowl in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- While that's getting cold, measure out your cream and zest your orange directly over the cream, adding the zest that sticks to the back of the zester.
- When your 10 minutes are up, remove the dry ingredients from the freezer, and add your orange cream and your chocolate chips. Stir this together with a rubber spatula until a stiff dough forms.
- Turn your dough out onto a floured surface, and bring it together with a few gentle squeezes. You don't want to knead it like bread dough, as that will make your scones tought. Pat your dough out into a rectangle that's about an inch thick.
- You can then cut this big rectangle into four smaller rectangles, then cut those diagonally to create 8 triangles.
- Transfer your scones to the baking sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes or until they're lightly golden. Allow your scones to cool completely.
- When your scones are cool, whisk together your powdered sugar and orange juice to form a thick glaze. You may need to add a bit more water depending on how thick or thin you like it. Spoon, pour, or drizzle your glaze over your scones, allowing the glaze to run down the sides.
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Lauren Teyema says
Im confused about the cream. It says 1-1/2 light cream or 230-115 grams.
Is that 1 & 1/2 cups of cream?
Thank you
Renee says
Thanks for the question. That's so odd. It simply says 1-1/2 cups single or light cream when I pull up the post, so I'm not seeing a typo. But yes, it's 1 & 1/2 cups of cream.