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Weekends for me start on Friday, as I currently have Friday's off. That will be changing soon as I am starting a new five-day-a-week job. More about that later. Anyway, I enjoy making something special on my "weekend" mornings. Something to start the day off without the rush. Scones have always been a favorite around here, so when I looked in the fridge the other morning and noticed how many extra zucchinis I had, I came up with the idea of mixing them into a scone recipe.
You really can take a basic scone recipe, just like muffin recipe, and add just about anything to it for variety. Some scone recipes can end up being really fattening and high in calories with lots of butter included. I've played around with this basic recipe trying a mixture of cream cheese and butter but have decided if you are going to make it go all the way and use the butter, just not the two sticks that some folks think is necessary.
What are some of your favorite weekend morning treats? Here are some of my favorites.
Wake Me Up Muffins
Cinnamon Roll French Toast
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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Scones
Makes 12
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cane sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, chilled and diced in 1 inch pieces
1 egg
2 cups shredded zucchini
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp orange zest
2 cups mini- chocolate chips
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
In large bowl mix dry ingredients together then cut in the butter and set aside (should be the texture of crumbs) Whisk egg and sugar together in small bowl and then add zucchini, buttermilk, vanilla and orange zest. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and gradually pour in wet ingredients. Mix all together, but do not over stir. Spread mixture out on floured surface. Carefully knead while adding chocolate chips in handfuls at a time. You will only need to "press" mixture together for about 3 or 4 times. If you do this too much it will result in tough scones. Yuck.
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My favorites? Well, I think I make a pretty mean french toast. The boys love my whole wheat waffles as well. These look pretty darn good as well. I may need to whip a batch up!
Have a great weekend!
These scones look great! Would have never thought to mix in zucchini! And I'm definitely a simple gal who loves just an everything bagel slathered with some cream cheese!
Love scones! But could never eat one for breakfast. That kind of thing sends my blood sugar to the moon and back! However, adding veggies would probably help. Gotta love fiber.
I finally got around to making these this weekend with the plethora of zucchini from our CSA. Mine didn't turn out so much like scones (batter was too liquid), I deemed them as muffin tops and they were fabulous just the same! I'm not sure where I went wrong but I'm guessing it was somewhere in the flour department! The taste was excellent no matter what you call them.
Very tasty. It was fun to find a zucchini scone recipe. I did find that this was more of a batter than a dough. I was determined to have scones, though, so I kept adding flour until I achieved a very gooey dough. I managed to get scone shapes and they baked up quite nicely and all who have tried them said they were quite good.
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