Orange Cranberry Chocolate Chip Scones

I made these a few weeks ago with one of my very best friends and I'm happy to say that these were the most delicious, almost healthy and incredibly easiest scones I've ever made. (I'm a big scone person, to say the least). We replaced All purpose flour with Whole wheat pastry flour. Instead of making an orange-y glaze to put on top, we mixed the orange zest into the dough and they ended up being pretty, textured,  moist and sweet! Therefore, these lovely scones are not only easy and fun to make, but healthy and are a delicious companion to your morning tea or coffee!


I've made them three more times this past week, will be posting a picture soon!
Love them as much as I do.



Orange Cranberry Chocolate Chips Scones

2 cups Whole wheat pastry flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
5 Tbsp COLD butter
Zest of an orange
1/4 cup organic raw sugar
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 - 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup (pick any of the following!): milk, almond or soy milk
1 1/8 tsp vanilla extract

Glaze (totally optional!) I highly suggest trying it without the glaze, and then if you don't like it...go all out and make the glaze!
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Zest of another orange
Orange juice, from the zested orange

Preheat the oven to 400 ℉ and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
Zest an orange and mix the zest with the sugar, set aside.

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Cut the 5 TBSP of butter into horizontal slices, and then cut those slices in half again. Make small cubes! Cut into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter, fork, or use your hands. (But be careful not to melt the butter with the heat of your hands!!) Mix the butter and the flour until there are small crumbs and no large clumps of butter. Stir in the sugar, cranberries, and chocolate chips. Measure the milk, add the vanilla, then stir in the flour mixture. The dough should be slightly sticky, if it looks like you need to add a little more milk, add a little more milk!
Do not, I repeat! Do not knead the dough! Bring the dough together into a ball. Use a little extra flour as needed when cutting the dough. Pat it out into a 1.5 inch thick round. Cut the round into 8 triangles. Place the triangles slightly apart on the baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, while turning the baking sheet half-way through the baking time, bake until the tops of the scones are golden on the edges.

To make the glaze, just mix the powdered sugar with orange zest and juice! Make sure the keep the glaze thick because it will melt a little bit when you bit it and become thinner on the scones.

Adapted from: honeybeecooksjackfruit