While these scones are definitely a sweet Saturday sweet, they are also most assuredly a breakfast food. In my world, breakfast should include some sweetness.
Chocolate and raspberry is not only one of the best natural combinations in the flavour world, it’s also one of the most beautiful. Some foods are just so gorgeous in their natural beauty, and raspberries are one of those foods. Paired with dark chocolate, against the off-white backdrop of a scone…if we were decorating a room, we’d be succeeding.
It’s foods like this that get me really, truly excited about ingredients, not just finished products I can enjoy eating. Ingredients like this inspire me to take pictures of food without making me question my sanity – to me, this is no different than photographing a stunning sunset or breathtaking view of the ocean. Like the eye-popping colour of the batter for my recent Beet Carrot Muffins, the dramatic red of raspberries makes me swoon.
Remember that super quick, incredibly healthy, natural raspberry jam we talked about recently? It is perfect on these scones, and seriously? THAT COLOUR. I just want to swim in it, paint it on my walls, talk about it, photograph it, and, obviously, eat it. I don’t even know how to edit photos guys, that colour is allllll real.
If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, you’ve probably realized that I’m a little obsessed with colour. I absolutely adore colour, be it vibrant and saturated or pastel and peaceful. My new aqua coffee table makes me happy every time I walk into the living room, and also happens to make a great photo backdrop when dragged over to a window :) I am that person who wears cobalt blue pants with a coral shirt, a hot pink skirt with a yellow t-shirt. I love working in a paint and decorating centre for the simple reason that I am surrounded by colour all day, every day.
Food that’s full of colour makes me excited about food. Creation boasts many incredible natural ingredients, foods in colours that need no embellishment, with incredible smells and tastes to match. These moist, rustic scones highlight the raspberries by letting them be the star with their sweet-tart flavour in a simple variation on my mom’s perfect buttermilk scone recipe. The raspberries make the dough a bit too sticky to handle with rolling and cutting, so these are simple drop biscuits – I used a quarter-cup measuring scoop but you could just as easily use two spoons. These are ragged, imperfect, quick, and delicious. One day when we own a Bed & Breakfast, I’ll be serving these.
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- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup quick cooking oats
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries (if frozen, do not thaw first) + 1 Tbsp flour
- ½ cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- OPTIONAL ICING:
- ½ cup icing sugar
- 1-2 tsp orange juice
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or grease lightly and set aside.
- Toss raspberries with 1 Tbsp flour (this prevents them from sinking during cooking and helps them distribute evenly throughout the batter).
- In large bowl, whisk together flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse sand.
- Gently stir in raspberries and chocolate chips.
- In separate, smaller bowl, whisk buttermilk with egg; pour over flour mixture. Stir with a fork to make a soft, ragged dough. Gather together with a large spoon into a smooth ball.
- Drop dough by ¼ cupfuls onto baking sheet 2" apart and bake at 400 degrees until bottoms are light golden, 16-18 minutes. Transfer to rack to cool.
- Optional: In small bowl, combine icing sugar with just enough orange juice to make an icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle over warm scones.
Chocolate and raspberry is such a magical combo. And you’re right, that color is stunning!
Agreed in that eating colorful food is more exciting than drab colored food! Although drab colored foods are often the best. Cheese and carbs. That’s awfully drab but the best stuff ever. :)
These scones look especially lovely with the raspberries and jam!
Hmm, very true – I would be lost without my carbs and cheese!!
Oh yes, I totally need something sweet in the morning to wake me up. And chocolate is even better. :)
Anna…I am with you! Color is so inviting when it comes to food. And these beauties have such an eye popping color. I would very readily wake up to a batch of these in the morning! Raspberry and chocolate is one of my favorite combos, too!
Chocolate and raspberry is a magical combo. Beautiful job!
When you open your bed & breakfast, let me know! I definitely want to spend a few night there so I can enjoy amazing breakfasts like these scones!
Scones are great and these look wonderful with chocolate and raspberries.
These look delicious….I love raspberries :) Just a technical question from your even less technical mother…if we are already on your mailing list, do we have to subscribe again now that things are changed?
You should continue to get emails from Feedburner for awhile (i think?)…but if they stop arriving you can just sign up again to be sure :)