Banana Chocolate Scones | 365 Days of Baking and Extra

January 15, 2024

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Banana Chocolate Scones are gentle, moist, and filled with chocolate chips! Sweetened with honey and calmly spiced, these banana scones pair completely along with your morning espresso.

Bananas and chocolate make such a scrumptious duo. In case you like this Double Chocolate Banana Bread, you’re going to adore immediately’s banana chocolate chip scone recipe!

You’ll love how simple these scones are to make — and the way unbelievable they make your kitchen scent.

At this time’s banana chocolate scones mix the very best components of a few of my favourite baked items. I like banana bread, and scones are so gentle and scrumptious! This recipe takes the candy taste and aroma of fine banana bread and bakes it into scones. Add a handful of chocolate and you’ve got pure breakfast perfection!

Any day that begins with a freshly baked scone has obtained to be good, proper?

This scone recipe addresses a typical grievance I’ve about scones. Too many home made scones get dry and crumbly inside just a few hours of baking. I do know some individuals like that extra biscuit-like crumb.

I desire my scones extra on the gentle aspect, someplace between a biscuit and a muffin. The banana in these scones, together with slightly home made buttermilk, means they keep moist and tender longer. Even a day or two after baking, the banana chocolate scones tasted gentle, flavorful, and scrumptious.

Ingredients for Banana Chocolate Scones.

What do I want?

This recipe contains acquainted baking substances plus just a few much less widespread ones:

Flour
Baking powder
Cinnamon
Kosher salt – Or use any coarse salt.
Nutmeg
Ripe Bananas – Peel and mash them in a separate bowl first.
Butter – Chilly butter is finest to provide the scones a flaky, biscuity texture.
Egg
Honey
Buttermilk – Like all of my favourite scone recipes, these Banana Chocolate Scones are made with buttermilk — or home made soured milk. The curdled milk helps the scones rise excellent and likewise ensures a softer, moister scone.
Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips (or use darkish chocolate for an extra-rich taste)

See the recipe card under for actual quantities.

Process photos for Banana Chocolate Scones.

The way to Make Banana Chocolate Chip Scones

STEP 1. Make home made buttermilk.

Whisk a teaspoon of vinegar into ⅓ cup of milk. Let sit for quarter-hour or so till it appears curdled and slightly bubbly. You should use any type of milk to make buttermilk. I often use 2% as a result of that’s what I’ve readily available.

STEP 2. Make the dough

Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a big mixing bowl. Use a pastry blender to “reduce” the butter into the flour combination till it develop into coarse. Add the egg, buttermilk, honey, mashed banana, and mini chocolate chips to the dry substances with a rubber spatula or wood spoon. Combine till the whole lot comes collectively in a thick dough.

STEP 3. Minimize the scones.

Now, it’s time to chop the scones into the traditional wedge form!

Lay out the dough on a clear, floured floor. Divide the dough in half and pat every right into a circle roughly 5 inches in diameter.

Utilizing a pointy knife, reduce the dough into 6 wedges and switch all the spherical disk of dough to a big baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Reducing it earlier than baking permits for straightforward separation, however preserving the wedges collectively throughout baking allowed for the scones to be a bit extra moist than is typical of many scones.

Bake for 20 – 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 400 F. They’re executed baking when the tops of the scones are calmly golden brown and agency. Switch to a wire rack and let cool utterly earlier than serving.

A plate of Chocolate chip Banana Scones.

Recipe Suggestions and Tips for Excellent Scones

These style candy and scrumptious all on their very own. However they’re additionally AMAZING with a pat of heat butter unfold on high.
In case you occur to have buttermilk readily available, go forward and skip the step of creating soured milk and use buttermilk as an alternative.
For ideally suited sweetness, moisture, and wealthy banana taste, be certain that your bananas are very ripe. Overripe bananas work nice right here too!
Maintain the scones shut collectively (touching or virtually touching) whereas baking. This helps the scones prove additional moist!
Banana Chocolate Scones will maintain nicely for a few days saved in a lined container, however I believe they’re finest served contemporary the identical day.

Are you able to freeze scones?

All scones freeze nicely, and these banana scones freeze fantastically. Retailer in hermetic containers or freezer luggage to stop undesirable freezer burn. Thaw to room temperature (or defrost within the microwave) earlier than serving.

Bake up a batch of banana chocolate scones on the weekend and pop them within the freezer for straightforward on-the-go breakfasts or snacks all through the week. Nobody might be unhappy to have a provide of home made scones within the freezer!

Scone Recipes

In case you like fruit in your scones, be sure you additionally add Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze and Peach Scones to your record.

My Blood Orange Marmalade Scones style unbelievable with a cup of robust black tea. You’ll love these Lemon Poppy Seed Scones too. Recently, I’ve been into the tangy taste that cream cheese provides to baked items like muffins and scones alike. These Raspberry Cream Cheese Scones and Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones are two tasty examples! I’ve even obtained a yummy Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bread.

Extra Banana Chocolate Recipes

In case you’ve been studying right here for some time you might have seen I’ve type of a factor for chocolate and banana. Individually, they’re fantastic. Nobody will flip down an Simple Chocolate Bear Claw or a Banana Oat Bran Peanut Butter Chip Muffin.

However whenever you put bananas and chocolate collectively? They’re merely magical.

From a loaf of Double Chocolate Banana Bread to a slice of Banana Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake, I adore it all. After you make these scones, you additionally must attempt these Chocolate Banana Muffins.

Perhaps the one factor that may enhance the banana + chocolate combo is the addition of peanut butter! This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is to die for.

However for immediately, I’ll be saving all of my love for the batch of heat banana chocolate scones that simply got here out of my oven. I can’t wait so that you can attempt these!

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Created by: Lynne Feifer

Banana Chocolate Scones

Prep Time 10

Cook dinner Time 25

Complete Time 35

Banana Chocolate Scones are gentle, moist, and filled with chocolate chips! Sweetened with honey and calmly spiced, these simple banana scones pair completely along with your morning espresso or afternoon cup of tea.

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Directions

Place a rack into the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 levels F.
Put together a baking sheet by lining it with parchment.
In a big mixing bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg.
Minimize butter into smaller items and with a pastry cutter, reduce butter into the flour combination till it resembles coarse meal.
In a small mixing bowl, whisk the egg.
Add the honey, buttermilk and bananas and blend.
Pour the combination into the dry substances together with the mini chocolate chips, and stir till it simply comes collectively.
Add the Lake Champlain Chocolate Outdated World Consuming Chocolate, and utilizing a rubber spatula, knead and fold it collectively about 8 to 10 instances.
Divide the dough in half and pat every right into a circle roughly 5 inches in diameter. Minimize the dough into 6 wedges and switch all the disk of dough to the ready baking sheet. Reducing it earlier than baking permits for straightforward separation, however preserving the wedges collectively throughout baking allowed for the scones to be bit extra moist than is typical.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or till tops are calmly golden and agency. Switch to a wire rack to chill utterly.

Notes

Measure 1/3 cup milk right into a measuring cup. Pour 1 teaspoon white vinegar into the milk. Combine and permit to sit down for quarter-hour. Use as directed.

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This put up was initially printed Could 10, 2015. It has been up to date in format and with photos on January 15, 2024.

Banana Chocolate Scones - the perfect treat with breakfast or brunch.