White Chocolate Apricot Scones

In my office we have a very nice intern who works holidays and summers and she brought us these wonderful White Chocolate Apricot Scones on her last day over the winter break and I had to have the recipe! I have never been a huge fan of scones because many of the ones I have had were chalky and overly dry. These were delicious and not dry at all and the mix of apricots and white chocolate works very well together. If you are not a big apricot or white chocolate fan you can swap and dried fruit and milk or dark chocolate chips as well.



White Chocolate Apricot Scones: 24 scones

3C Flour - Sifted
2.5tsp Baking Powder
1/2C Sugar
1/2tsp Baking Soda
1tsp Salt
3/4C Butter (1.5 Sticks)
1C Buttermilk
1/2C White Chocolate Chips
1/4C Chopped Dried Apricots

Sift together your flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda and salt, cut in the butter - I normally start by putting chunks of butter into the dry mix and smashing with a fork but I always resort to my hands to really break up the butter and mix into the flour mix. Mix the butter into the flour mix until it resembles coarse meal - ie: wet sand. Stir in the white chocolat chips and apricots, gradually add the buttermilk and with with your hands just until the dough holds together, you do not want to over mix. Drop the dough onto a greased baking sheet (I would suggest using an ice cream scoop to get even sized scones).

Bake at 450° for 10 minutes, serve and enjoy!

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WW: 4 Points Plus per Scone