A friend of mine told me she made these recently and they were so good. I have been meaning to make them and last night while I was laying in bed trying to sleep I told myself not to forget to make these this morning. They are so so so good! Go make them right now..SERIOUSLY! My husband works in a bakery and one of his biggest complaints about my light baking is that it is always too dry. These are not dry! I think that the buttermilk contributed to this. I always keep cultered buttermilk which comes in powder form and can be stored in the fridge. I do that because if I bought it in liquid form I wouldn't be able to use it all and it would go bad and it is also less fat then buttermilk in liquid form. If you dont have buttermilk on hand you can add 1 tbsp lemon juice or vingegar to 1 cup milk and wait five minutes till is curdles.
I also have recently discovered Bobs Red Mill whole wheat pastry flour. I highly recommend it. I found mine at winco by the other specialy flour. I am sure there are other places you can buy it though but it looks like this
Chocolate Chip Scones
Recipe Adapted from Skinny Taste.
3/4 Cup Buttermilk
1/4 Cup Sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 large egg
1 Cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour (I used Bob's Red mill)
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 Tbsp cold light butter
1 large egg white lightly beaten
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
Add the first four ingredients to a bowl. If using the cultered buttermilk you add 3 tbsp of the powder with sugar and then when you mix in egg and vanilla add 3/4 cup water.
Mix the dry ingredients in a seperate bown and and mix together. Cut butter into 1/2 tbsp each and then put in dry mixture. I have never gotten the concept of cutting butter into a dry ingredients with butter knives so I just add it in with my CLEAN hand.
Next add the milk mixture to the dry mixture and fold into each other.
Put the dough on a floured surface and knead it together 4 times with floured hands. Shape into a 9 -10 inch circle. Place on a cooking sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Brush egg whites over the top and sprinkle the sugar on top.
Cook at 375 for 15 minutes. Give or take a few depending on the oven.
After cooking cut into 12 pieces.
Calories 199.6, Fat 8.1, Protein 3.7, Carbs 29.8, Fiber 2.3, Sugar 12.8, WWPP-5
