Chocolate-Cherry Valentine Scones

Name: Chocolate-Cherry Valentine Scones
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 9
Cuisine: English, Scottish, British, European
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons baking powder; 79 milliliters butter, cut into 8 pieces; 118 milliliters dried cherries; 1 egg, beaten; 355 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 57 grams 16 red candy melts or coating wafers; 59 milliliters white vanilla baking chips; 1 teaspoons salt; 79 milliliters sugar; 79 milliliters unsweetened baking cocoa; 1 teaspoons vanilla; 6 Tbsps whipping cream

The recipe Chocolate-Cherry Valentine Scones could satisfy your Scottish craving in roughly 30 minutes. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 9 servings with 301 calories, 5g of protein, and 15g of fat each. If you have salt, whipping cream, vanilla, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Only a few people really liked this morn meal.

Instructions

Heat oven to 400°F.

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Oven

In large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through mixture in opposite directions), cut in butter until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in cherries until coated with flour mixture. Stir in whipping cream, vanilla and egg just until liquid is absorbed into flour mixture.

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Whipping Cream

Baking Powder

Cherries

Vanilla

Butter

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Blender

Bowl

Turn mixture out onto clean work surface; lightly knead 10 to 15 times or just until a dough forms. Using floured rolling pin or patting out with hands, roll dough into thick 15x2 1/2-inch rectangle.

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Dough

Roll

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Rolling Pin

With 2 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut 7 scones by placing cookie cutter in opposite directions directly on cut edge of previous heart.

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Cookie Cutter

Place dough hearts about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Reroll dough scraps into 5x2 1/2-inch rectangle.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Cut 2 additional heart shapes from remaining dough; place on cookie sheet.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake 10 to 12 minutes or just until edges are set. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

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Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

In small resealable freezer plastic bag, place baking chips; seal bag. In another small resealable plastic bag, place red candy melts; seal bag. Microwave both filled bags on High 2 to 3 minutes, kneading bags twice, until chips and candy melts are melted.

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Baking Pieces

Candy Melts

French Fries

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Ziploc Bags

Microwave

Cut off tiny bottom corner of each bag. Immediately squeeze bag with melted candy melts to drizzle melted candy over scones. Repeat with bag of melted baking chips.

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Candy

Candy Melts

Let stand 10 minutes; serve warm.