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5-Spice Scones with Chocolate and Spiced Pecans

5-Spice Scones with Chocolate and Spiced Pecans

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chocolate & Spice
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    raisedbycoffee's Notes: Feeding off my reputation for baking scones among my friends and family, I decided to attempt a chocolate scone and felt Chinese 5-Spice would be a welcome complement. I often turn to the...

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Makes 15 scones

  1. Heat oven to 425 degrees with a rack in the middle position

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  2. Place flour, baking powder, sugar, spices and salt in large bowl. Whisk together. If using a particularly sticky batch of pecans, mix with some flour.

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  3. Use a pastry blender or two knives (or just your fingers) and quickly cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal, with a few slightly larger butter lumps. Add pecans and chocolate, mixing to prevent clumping.

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  4. Stir in most of the heavy cream with a spatula and mix until a dough forms.

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  5. Transfer dough to countertop and add the leftover cream to the bowl to help scrap up leftover floury bits, then add that to rest of the dough. Knead dough by hand just until it comes together into a rough, sticky ball. Press ball flat on a lightly floured work surface and form scones how you like. I prefer to make a 3/4 inch thick circle and cut into rough triangles, but you can make tidier rounds with a biscuit cutter.

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  6. Transfer wedges or rounds to an ungreased baking sheet and bake until tops begin to lightly brown, roughly 13-15 minutes. Remove from oven and let scones cool on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm (but watch out for hot, gooey chocolate) or at room temperature.

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3 Comments on 5-Spice Scones with Chocolate and Spiced Pecans

299368_712880140350_2900019_35478160_1615070951_n Reply

These sound delicious! But I think you may have left the butter out of the ingredients list?

Bbass Reply

Oh my!! Thanks you so much. Corrected

Sausage2 Reply

These look and sound lovely!

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