Chocolate Chip Scones
africanbites.com · 2023 · 12
Against 660 scone recipes
Less liquid than 99% of recipes and less butter than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 99% of recipes: 15% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%, under a third as much.
- Less butter than 90% of recipes: 15% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%, about half as much.
- Less leavening than 96% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%, about half as much.
- Less sugar than 83% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, about half as much.
Ingredients (11)
- 2½ (300g) cups all-purpose flour750 g
- 1 tablespoon (12g) baking powder12 g
- 1 teaspoon (6g) salt6 g
- ¼ cup (50g) granulated sugar50 g
- 1 cup (170g) semi-sweet chocolate chips170 g
- 8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter, (cold and cut into chunks)113 g
- ½ cup (113g) heavy cream (plus more for brushing the scones)113 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2-3 tablespoons (30-45ml) milk≈ 38 g
- 1 cup (113g) confectioners' sugar, (sifted)113 g
- 1 tablespoon (14g) unsalted butter14 g
flour 750 gbatter 1314 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 660 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter15% · 9th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid15% · 0th percentile · median 52%
- Sugar6.7% · 16th percentile · median 20%
- Egg13% · 45th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening1.6% · 3rd percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0.8% · 48th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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