Chocolate Chip Cream Scones

I love donuts just as much as the next person; however, I know they’re the antithesis of healthy.  Scones on the other hand I feel are different. They’re not overly sweet and you can eat them without your teeth starting to immediately ache with that first bite when something has been made with excessive amounts of sugar.

Scones are a decidedly English “thing” especially when paired with afternoon tea. They were one of the many goodies that were served at the afternoon tea I attended in Hawaii last fall. Scone flavors are varied and plentiful-when I visited a lavender farm on the Hawaiian island of Maui, I actually got to eat lavender flavored scones which were delicious and extremely unique.

I kept my special Friday dinner simpler last week (I made a mushroom broccoli and ham quiche) so I could do some baking. I was amazed at how almost effortless it was to make the scones. I don’t “love” having to roll out dough (I tire of flour messes easily) but really, there was nothing to it. I did swap out currants for chocolate chips since one, I wasn’t entirely sure where currants would be in my supermarket and two, chocolate chips are much more fun! But the recipe below is definitely something you can experiment with in terms of trying even another filling (i.e. raisins, blueberries).

I would definitely recommended heating them up to eat them, they taste that much better!