Banana Chocolate Scones | 365 Days of Baking and Extra

January 16, 2024

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

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

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

Right now’s banana chocolate scones mix the very best components of a few of my favourite baked items. I really 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 standard grievance I’ve about scones. Too many home made scones get dry and crumbly inside a number of hours of baking. I do know some folks like that extra biscuit-like crumb.

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

Ingredients for Banana Chocolate Scones.

What do I want?

This recipe contains acquainted baking elements plus a number of 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 greatest to present 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 in addition 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.

Find out how 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 seems curdled and just a little bubbly. You should use any form 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 grow to be coarse. Add the egg, buttermilk, honey, mashed banana, and mini chocolate chips to the dry elements with a rubber spatula or wood spoon. Combine till every little thing comes collectively in a thick dough.

STEP 3. Lower the scones.

Now, it’s time to chop the scones into the basic 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 the complete spherical disk of dough to a big baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Chopping it earlier than baking permits for simple separation, however retaining 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 carried out baking when the tops of the scones are flippantly golden brown and agency. Switch to a wire rack and let cool fully earlier than serving.

A plate of Chocolate chip Banana Scones.

Recipe Suggestions and Methods for Good 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.
When you occur to have buttermilk readily available, go forward and skip the step of creating soured milk and use buttermilk as a substitute.
For very best sweetness, moisture, and wealthy banana taste, ensure your bananas are very ripe. Overripe bananas work nice right here too!
Preserve the scones shut collectively (touching or virtually touching) whereas baking. This helps the scones prove further moist!
Banana Chocolate Scones will preserve properly for a few days saved in a lined container, however I feel they’re greatest served contemporary the identical day.

Are you able to freeze scones?

All scones freeze properly, and these banana scones freeze superbly. Retailer in hermetic containers or freezer baggage 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 simple on-the-go breakfasts or snacks all through the week. Nobody will probably be unhappy to have a provide of home made scones within the freezer!

Scone Recipes

When you like fruit in your scones, ensure you additionally add Apple Cinnamon Scones with Maple Glaze and Peach Scones to your listing.

My Blood Orange Marmalade Scones style unimaginable with a cup of robust black tea. You’ll love these Lemon Poppy Seed Scones too. These days, 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

When you’ve been studying right here for some time you might have observed I’ve form of a factor for chocolate and banana. Individually, they’re great. 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 like it all. After you make these scones, you additionally have to strive these Chocolate Banana Muffins.

Possibly 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 as we speak, 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 strive 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 delicate, moist, and filled with chocolate chips! Sweetened with honey and flippantly spiced, these straightforward 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.
Lower 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 elements together with the mini chocolate chips, and stir till it simply comes collectively.
Add the Lake Champlain Chocolate Previous World Consuming Chocolate, and utilizing a rubber spatula, knead and fold it collectively about 8 to 10 occasions.
Divide the dough in half and pat every right into a circle roughly 5 inches in diameter. Lower the dough into 6 wedges and switch the complete disk of dough to the ready baking sheet. Chopping it earlier than baking permits for simple separation, however retaining 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 flippantly golden and agency. Switch to a wire rack to chill fully.

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 publish was initially revealed Might 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.