Strawberry Chocolate Chip Scones
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These tender Strawberry Chocolate Chip Scones melt in your mouth! A buttermilk scone batter, lightly sweetened and loaded with strawberries and chocolate chips.
Scones are a British baked good, biscuit-like cake and it can be made savory or sweet. They also come in different shapes and sizes, they can be triangles like these scones, square or round. Totally up to you how you make them.
There’s nothing better than a delicious berry scone fresh right out of the oven, and enjoying it with a fresh cup of coffee on any morning. Trust me, it’s pure bliss.
Don’t be scared of scones, making them or eating them. This easy recipe includes lots of fresh strawberries and perfectly melted chocolate chips. They’re such a filling little breakfast that won’t leave you feeling sugar buzzed or carb sluggish for the rest of the day. This hand held treat is so loaded with flavor and wonderful texture that I’m sure you’ll be craving this recipe for years to come.
Ingredients
- Flour – Regular all purpose works just fine for this recipe.
- Sugar – We want just plain white granulated to achieve our crisp, clean sweet flavor.
- Salt – It’s super important to ensure all of our baking is properly seasoned.
- Strawberries – I used fresh berries today, washed and quartered.
- Egg – 1 entire egg is all we need.
- Leavening agents – We’re going to use both baking powder and baking soda.
- Buttermilk – This will ensure our scones are super tender and have great volume.
- Chocolate chips – Milk chocolate chips, but feel free to use whatever chocolate chips you prefer!
- Butter – Unsalted as we want to control the sodium content of our dish.
Why Buttermilk?
Let’s talk about the buttermilk in these scones because the buttermilk plays a very important role here. First of all, the buttermilk will add complexity and depth to your scones. It’s what makes them super soft and light and what keeps them from browning too quickly so that you end up with scones that are baked perfectly, inside and out!
How To Make Strawberry Chocolate Chip Scones
- Preheat oven: To 400 F degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat.
- Combine the dry ingredients: In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Prep the buttermilk: In the measuring cup used to measure out the buttermilk, whisk the egg with the buttermilk.
- Incorporate the butter: Add cubed butter to the flour mixture and using 2 knives or a pastry blender cut in the butter, until the dough is crumbly and resembled peas. Add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture and mix well using a fork or wooden spoon.
- Finish the dough: Add the strawberries and chocolate chips to the dough and roughly mix everything together until well incorporated.
- Assemble: Turn the dough over onto a floured surface, and form the dough into a round disk. Cut the dough into 8 triangles. Place the scones onto your prepared baking sheet. Brush the scones with buttermilk and sprinkle with a bit of sugar if preferred.
- Bake: for about 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Can I Use Frozen Strawberries?
You most definitely can! If fresh berries don’t last long in your house, and I mean who would blame you, then using frozen berries works just as well. It might even work better in it’s own way as frozen berries will keep our dough nice and cold, which is essential for achieving perfectly flaky and delicious scones.
Let’s Talk About Texture
But let’s talk about these scones which are really perfect. Over Easter I went to one of my favorite bakeries here in Calgary and they were selling apple pie scones. Of course I had to buy some, but what I loved about these scones was that they weren’t too dry and hard like scones usually are, but they were more tender like cake texture, as well as being utterly delicious which goes without saying.
Those little scones inspired this recipe today, as I was looking to achieve that perfect chew. So enjoy, but be warned these treats won’t last long!
Some Tips
- The key to flaky scones is cold butter. Try placing the butter into the freezer for 5 minutes before cubing. And be sure not to over mix with your hands otherwise it will melt too much.
- To ensure you’re using a good lightened amount of flour without sifting, scoop up a cup full of flour and gently shake it back out into your bag. Then gently re-scoop the air sifted flour and level gently with your finger. You’ll find it makes quite a difference!
- If regular milk is all you have on hand keep in mind that you can make your own quasi buttermilk by adding 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice per cup of milk.
Storage
Since these scones contain dairy, store them in the fridge for up to 3 days. These can also be easily frozen! Freeze for up to 3 months. Wrap them in plastic wrap individually then place them in a ziploc bag. The spread will not freeze well but it will last in the fridge for 3 – 4 days.
More Must Try Breakfast Recipes:
- Banana Buzz Scones
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Apple Cinnamon Scones
- Classic Pancakes
- Easy Waffles
- Banana Fritters
- Pancake Muffins
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Strawberry Chocolate Chip Scones
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total: 35 mins
Serves: 8
These tender Strawberry Chocolate Chip Scones melt in your mouth! A buttermilk scone batter, lightly sweetened and loaded with strawberries and chocolate chips.Â
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup butter unsalted, cold and cubed
- 1 cup strawberries washed and quartered
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup flour for dusting over your work surface
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In the measuring cup used to measure out the buttermilk, whisk the egg with the buttermilk.
- Add cubed butter to the flour mixture and using 2 knives or a pastry blender cut in the butter, until the dough is crumbly and resembled peas.
- Add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture and mix well using a fork or wooden spoon.
- Add the strawberries and chocolate chips to the dough and roughly mix everything together until well incorporated.
- Turn the dough over onto a floured surface, and form the dough into a round disk. Cut the dough into 8 triangles.
- Place the scones onto your prepared baking sheet.
- Brush the scones with buttermilk and sprinkle with a bit of sugar if preferred.
- Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Recipe Notes
- The disk I rolled out was about 10 inches in diameter and about 3/4 inch in thickness. You can make yours thicker or thinner depending on preference.
- You can use frozen strawberries.
- You can store these in the freezer for a month.
- Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.
Nutrition Information:
Calories: 360kcal (18%)Carbohydrates: 47g (16%)Protein: 7g (14%)Fat: 16g (25%)Saturated Fat: 10g (63%)Cholesterol: 56mg (19%)Sodium: 275mg (12%)Potassium: 244mg (7%)Fiber: 2g (8%)Sugar: 13g (14%)Vitamin A: 459IU (9%)Vitamin C: 11mg (13%)Calcium: 117mg (12%)Iron: 2mg (11%)
I followed the recipe exactly, and they were ok. I’m used to delicious scones from the various coffee shops in my town, and these did not quite pack the punch I was hoping for.
Hello! If I wanted to freeze the unbaked scones, what would the process look like if I wanted to bake them? Is baking time the same? Should I let it thaw?
Let them thaw on a parchment paper lined baking sheet for about 1-2 hours before baking as per the recipe instructions.
I prepared these this morning along with the breakfast quesadillas and they were both huge hits. The kiddos loved them! Thank you for sharing!
Jo, how do you handle the strawberries if they are frozen? Cut them small? Add them frozen? Are we talking individually quick frozen strawberries here? I would like to bring them to my kids for Easter! Thanks so much! Ginny
Let them thaw and chop them up!
Hi Jo, this recipe looks amazing and I cannot wait to try and make them this weekend!!
If I don’t have a pastry cutter, so can you please tell me how I can use a food processor for this recipe instead? If you don’t recommend using a food processor for this recipe, I know you had mentioned using two knives, but do you recommend using dinner knives for step #4? What exactly am I supposed to do with these two knives? Chop/Cut/Mash it up with the dinner knives until the dough is crumbly? Any advice would be be much appreciated, especially since I don’t have a pastry cutter and feel intimidated to bake overall.
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for all of your help, Jo! 🙂
You can use the food processor! Tap the pulse button on your food processor until you get the crumbly mixture with pea-sized pieces of butter.
I swapped out the milk chocolate for dark chocolate; added a vanilla-sugar glaze, and spread some Himalayan pink salt on to balance the dark chocolate.
They’re so good!
Next time I’ll probably add half a teaspoon of sea salt to the mix to see if complements the dark chocolate even more. And maybe some flaky salt mixed in with the glaze.
Match in heaven strawberry & chocolate. Kids loved it.
These recipes are AMAZING! Soooooo delicious and certainly beautiful. We are having a cook off and I’m gonna win with your Strawberry scones.
Matilda (10)
I think I put in the too much buttermilk, it was wet when pit thrvred dough in the board. Was too sticky to sticjky yo cutcut evenly by but soldiered on. Missed the timers they were not pretty but the one I just i just ate was yummy. Will try again since I had to buy a quart of buttermil. Thsnks you I am learning. Third time is usually the charm.
These are so delicious!! I put them in muffin form instead and they turned out perfect! So glad I came across this recipe!
Hi Jo! I can completely relate to feeling nervous about others trying the food I’ve made. It’s nice to know I’m not alone ha ha. So thank you for sharing! I wanted to ask. I picked a ton of strawberries last summer, I turned most of them into jam and froze the rest. Have you used frozen berries for this recipe before?
I have, frozen strawberries will work just fine here!
How thick is the round disc?
My disc was about 10 inches in diameter and about 3/4 inch in thickness.
Scones are my favorite,allergic to strawberries ? what can I use instead??
Hi Joann, if you’re allergic to strawberries, I have a lot of other scone recipes here, just check them out. http://www.jocooks.com/category/recipes/?fwp_search=scones
how do they freeze? thank you
Yes you can freeze them, place them in a resealable bag or airtight container and freeze them for up to a month.
This is my first scone recipe. This is so easy and super delicious!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Thank you Olivia, glad you like it.