You’ll feel like the Queen for the day after eating one of these delicious scones! They are delicious because of the chocolate chips, but they are exceptional because of the orange juice. To achieve the flakiest texture possible, make sure the butter is thoroughly cooled. Serve with lemon curd or clotted cream.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 scones |
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cubed
- ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. With a pastry blender or a large fork, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the chocolate chips. Mix in the orange juice to form a dough.
- Turn out the dough on a floured surface. Pat or roll into a 9 inch circle about 1/2 inch thick. With a 2 1/2 inch fluted biscuit cutter, cut out 12 scones, pushing the dough scraps together for the last few, if necessary. Transfer the scones to the baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 12 minutes. Move to wire racks to cool.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 167 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 13 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 180 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delish!
Made it according to what recommended in comments. 1 stick of butter/8 tbs, with 10 tbs of OJ. Flatten the dough out to a 7” round & cut into 8 slices. Baked 7 of them in a cake pan. My family cobbled it up before breakfast.
I make this every mother’s day and everyone looks forward to it. I up the butter to one full stick, but keep the OJ at 3-4 tbsp. It just needs a longer mix time to come together as a dough. Too much liquid messes with the final result.
I loved it. I made it for my classmates as part of a bake off and they loved it.
This recipe is incomplete. There has to be more liquids. I added and egg and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. That made a good dough and delicious scones.
This recipe turned out great. I added extra butter for that biscuit texture. My husband loved them!
Awesome!!! I have made it for years, and will continue to bake it!!!
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Great Recipe! But yes, I agree that a bit more OJ would fix the crumbly dough.
They were a hit but needed WAY more orange juice than indicated.
It was a good easy scone, i made them for my family. they where kinda hard though, i had to add 9 table spoons of milk to make it softer. but otherwise good scone.
just what I was looking for. I didn’t have orange juice so I used water and added 1 tsp almond extract. I find I need to sift the baking soda with the flour beforehand because I find little “baking soda bombs” randomly in the finished scones (ewwww). Just before baking I popped the shaped dough into the freezer for 5 min. I was able to cut the triangles out individually and bake them separate from each other. Delicious!
Taste is delicious but this is not a recipe for a beginner cook due to all the adjustments that have to be made. As others noted, 3 TBS of orange juice is not near enough liquid to bind the dough. I also agree that orange juice did not add much in the way of flavor. Adding zest would be a good idea. I would go with heavy cream next time for the liquid as well. I would also use a full stick of butter . And why is this recipe written so funny – for Brits maybe Maybe something did not translate well.
Tastes great, but not enough liquid to form a dough of any kind. I had to add additional orange juice and also added two tbsp of heavy cream to form a dough.
put to much oj, the scones stuck to the pan but they still turned out good
Easy, great flavor and texture. I did not have chocolate chip so I used cranberries and worked great.
This were very good. I wish i could do 4 1/2 stars because it was a little on the sweet side but besides that, awesome in a piece of bread!
Super easy to make and delicious! So glad I decided on this recipe for my first time making scones. I had to add a couple more tablespoons of orange juice to form the dough, otherwise I followed the recipe to the T.
There was no egg listed in the ingredients. I assume this must have been a mistake as my scones turned out completely wrong. I should’ve known better, but I was in a hurry and banking on all the good reviews. The dough would not hold together, so I upped the juice to 6 tbs. The scones didn’t rise and are a bit more like hockey pucks than scones. The texture is hard to describe. Not hard, but not soft either and a bit gummy. They are still edible, as they are full of chocolate and sugar, but just barely.
I had to add buttermilk for more liquid since it was too dry . It was okay but not moist like other scone recipes.
I added extra OJ and pecans. They were pretty good.