The most perfectly moist Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones are coming to your kitchen!
I live for a scone. I've been obsessed ever since my first trip to England 20+ years ago when my mom, dad, sister and I would eat them for breakfast and afternoon tea. These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones are the perfect treat when that afternoon sweet tooth hits, or the perfect way to kick off a leisurely fall themed brunch.
These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones couldn't be easier too. Everything is prepped in 1 bowl, cut into wedges and then baked. You can prep them ahead and wait to bake until right before you're ready to serve. You can also make these well ahead of time and store them in the freezer. Just pop them in a toaster oven or microwave to re-heat for a bit before serving.
One quick note - below in the recipe you'll see I call for grated butter and you're probably thinking... "Grated Butter." Yes, break out that box grater and make sure you have SUPER cold butter and grate it into the mixture. That way there will be little bits of butter scattered throughout the entire dough. It's easier and actually faster than cutting the butter into small cubes. Okay!! Let's go!
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scones
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¼ cup plus 3 tablespoons, white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- 6 tablespoons cold butter, grated
- ½ cup canned pumpkin puree
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 large egg
- â…” cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Mix together with a fork.
- Add the butter into the flour mixture and using a pastry cutter, or a fork, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until the butter is slightly broken down.
- Add the pumpkin, heavy cream and egg to the dry mixture and combine together with a fork. When it's almost completely incorporated, add the â…” cups of chocolate chips and combine.
- Pat the dough into an 8 inch circle and cut into wedges. Place the wedges of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet and refrigerate for 45 minutes before baking.
- Place into preheated oven and bake for 13-15 minutes. Remove and let cool before serving.
these are great like between a big cookie and a biscuit the chocolate chip really are the secret, so good I will make again,and I might add so easy to make.
Could you explain what you mean by "Form large mounds out of the dough"?
Is this one large ball of dough? or do I split up the dough for individual scones?
I made these last weekend using white chocolate chips and I also made a vanilla glaze with them, they were awesome! I linked to your recipe on my blog http://mixpourbake.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/pumpkin-white-chocolate-scones/
These are wonderful! I used 1 cup of pumpkin and finished them with a brown sugar glaze, simply fantastic! They did need to bake a bit longer due to the added pumpkin. Thank you for the recipe!
yay glad you liked them!!!!
made these this morning...so yummy! I did get puzzled by the combining of the pumpkin, egg, etc with the dry using a whisk...so didn't work for me...turned into a giant lump inside my whisk..lol...but still turned out wonderfully!
Making them right now!!
update: I made these for tonight's dessert. yum yum yum!!! These are soooooo good. I have never had a pumpkin/chocolate combo before. Congratulations; I'm now an addict 🙂
one should not look at food blogs when they are starving. i might make these for dinner 🙂 yum!
I might argue chocolate and coconut... but chocolate and pumpkin ranks right up there!
i made some pumpkin pecan chocolate chips scones last fall - thanks for the reminder! it's time to make some again 🙂
I have never done pumpkin and chocolate! These look awesome.
Yum! These sound fabulous!
I love scones and wish I could bake a batch every morning, the pumpkin scones I make are my families top item I bake, these look delicious with the chocolate chips....yes not much better than that!
I'm a scone addict, always looking for a good excuse to make more!
I just put my pumpkin on the counter for tomorrow.........