Chocolate Chip Scones with Blood Orange Glaze

5 from 3 votes

These chocolate chip scones are super quick and easy to make and absolutely delicious for a special breakfast with our blood orange glaze.

Prep Time15

Cook Time15

Total Time30

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: British

Servings: scones

Calories: 214kcal

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. In a large bowl, mix together the plain flour, spelt flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cinnamon.
1 ½ cups all purpose flour, 1 cup spelt flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons soft light brown sugar, ½ teaspoon fine sea salt, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Add the cold butter cubes and gently rub together until you are left with pea-sized pieces of butter.
5 tablespoons cold butter
Stir in the blood orange zest and the chocolate chunks.
2 blood oranges, 2 ounces dark chocolate
Add the lightly beaten egg (reserve a drop for brushing the tops) and the milk and bring together gently using your hands to form a dough, adding more milk if needed. You don't want the dough to be dry but you don't want it to be super sticky either. Pat the dough into a round, 1" thick.
1 large egg, 6-7 tablespoons milk
Cut into 8 wedges. Brush with the reserved beaten egg.
Place on a lined baking tray and bake for 15 minutes until risen and golden brown. Leave to cool a little before drizzling with glaze and serving.

Mix together the icing sugar and blood orange juice to form a thick but drizzleable glaze.
1 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar), 2-3 tablespoons blood orange juice

Use enough liquid that the dough will come together and not be overworked which will make the scones tough. It should just come together into a dough ball and not be dry to touch or too sticky.
The butter you’ll be using needs to be really cold. The reason for this is it will give you the flakiest and fluffiest scone dough. If its too warm you will lose that buttery mottled look of the dough which gives the best texture.
Allow the scones to cool a bit before glazing them with the blood orange glaze. If not you’ll find your glaze will melt and go very thin.