A dessert that combines two of my favourite flavours: chocolate, and orange.
Ingredients
230 g flour
11 g baking soda
60g butter
1 teaspoon caster sugar
145 mL of milk
1 tablespoon Orange Blossom water
120g chocolate, chopped into coarse bits
Zest of half an orange, chopped into tiny bits
Pinch of salt
Instructions
Preheat the oven at 200°C. Leave the butter out to soften a bit.
Sift the flour, the sugar and the baking soda in a bowl, and gently rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the milk little by little, until you have a spongy dough.
Work in the orange blossom water, the orange zest and the chocolate chips until the dough is smooth and uniform.
Grease a baking sheet. Divide the dough into 8-9 parts and shape it like cylinders (roughly 5cm across, 1cm thick). Or, if it's too much trouble, just put dollops of the dough onto the baking sheet :-)
Bake for about 15-20 minutes, until the scones are risen and light golden in colour.
Recipe by Aliette de Bodard at https://www.aliettedebodard.com/recipes/chocolate-orange-scones/