Red Velvet Chocolate Chunk Scones
kitchen-tested.com · melindastrauss.com · 2019
Against 660 scone recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more liquid than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, about twice as much.
- More liquid than 80% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 52%.
- No egg at all, where 62% of recipes use some (most of those 17 to 22% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (15)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1/2 cup sugar≈ 100 g
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder≈ 22 g
- 2 tsp baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 6 Tbsp butter, chilled and cubed (you cannot use oil for this but you can use vegan butter, such as Earth Balance)≈ 85 g
- 3/4 cup heavy cream (or coconut milk)≈ 179 g
- 1 tbsp lemon juice≈ 15 g
- 1 tsp red food coloring (can use gel or liquid)≈ 4.9 g
- 4 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate113 g
- turbinado sugar, optionaln/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- *Sweet Cream Cheese*n/a
- 1/2 cup cream cheese≈ 116 g
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar≈ 30 g
- a splash of bourbonn/a
flour 250 gbatter 779 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.
- Butter34% · 56th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid71% · 81st percentile · median 52%
- Sugar40% · 93rd percentile · median 20%
- Egg0% · 19th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening3.7% · 30th percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt0.8% · 48th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 to 20 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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