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Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe


I found this chocolate chip scone recipe somewhere online a number of years ago. These delicious scones are a favorite around our home.

When I went to link to them yesterday in a post, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t posted the recipe here yet. Happy baking!

Chocolate Chip Scones

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Dash of salt
  • 2 tbsp cold butter
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tbsp whipping cream
  • 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  2. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  3. In a small bowl, combine the egg and cream.
  4. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. If too dry, add more whipping cream a little at a time.
  5. Fold in chocolate chips.
  6. Turn onto a floured surface and knead gently 6-8 times.
  7. Pat into a 6-inch circle. Cut dough into 6 wedges.
  8. Separate wedges and place on an ungreased baking sheet.
  9. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
  10. Serve warm.

Enjoy!

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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe


As promised, here is the requested recipe for Cream Cheese Frosting. This is delicious on cinnamon rolls! A couple of recommendations for when you make this:

  • A half of a box of confectioner’s sugar is 8 ounces. You can use up to an entire box of confectioner’s sugar.
  • The more sugar you add, the less you will taste the cream cheese. I like it to taste more like cream cheese so I would use less sugar than a whole box.
  • I also like to add a dash of salt.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

  • 1 stick butter, softened
  • 1 8 oz. pkg of cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 box of confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

  1. Blend butter with cream cheese.
  2. Add sugar; blend together.
  3. Add vanilla and blend.

Enjoy!

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Garden Herb Bread for Bread Machine Recipe


There are two recipes I make most often in my bread machine. The first is a Honey Wheat. This Garden Herb Bread is the other.

I found this Garden Herb Bread in the recipe book (Electric Bread) that came with my bread machine. It is a delicious and fragrant. Just smelling it while it is baking is worth the time alone! It makes great sandwiches or accompaniment to soup. I think it would also make great croutons, but I haven’t gotten around to trying that yet.

Garden Herb Bread for Bread Machine

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup water
  • 2 cups white bread flour
  • 1 tbsp dry milk
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp chives
  • 1 tsp marjoram
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 1/2 tsp basil
  • 2 tsp active dry yeast (use 1 tsp yeast if using fast rise)

Directions

  1. Place the ingredients into your bread machine according to the manufacturer’s directions.
  2. All herbs used should be dried and flaked, not ground.
  3. This makes a regular sized loaf and can be made using the regular, rapid, or delayed time bake cycles.

Happy eating!

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Honey Wheat Bread for Bread Machines Recipe


I found this recipe in the book (Electric Bread) that came with my bread machine. It is a good light wheat bread with almost no wheat taste.

My favorite way to eat it is toasted and then spread with honey butter (see recipe at the end). So delicious!

Honey Wheat Bread for Bread Machines

Ingredients 

  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 and 1/2 cups white bread flour
  • 1/2 cup wheat bread flour
  • 1 tbsp dry milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 and 1/2 tsp active dry yeast (use 1 tsp if you are using rapid rise yeast)

Directions

  1. Add the ingredients to your bread machine according to the manufacturer’s directions.
  2. This recipe can be made with the regular, rapid, or delayed time bake cycles.

Honey Butter

This is absolutely delicious melted on toast!

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup honey
  • 3/4 powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

  1. Blend all ingredients together by hand.
  2. Store in refrigerator.

Enjoy!

You can see all of my recipes under Sallie’s Favorite Comfort Food Recipes. If you do try one of my recipes and like it, please come back and let me know in a comment. I truly do appreciate it when people do so!

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