Pumpkin Choclate Chip Scones

I am pleased to report that I am no longer a scone failure! My friend and I made scones this weekend honor of fall - Pumpkin Chocolate Chip scones... YUM! We  got the original recipe from here. We followed the recipe pretty closely, but learned from our previous mistakes and added the chocolate chips - because... well pumpkin and chocolate chips are FANTASTIC together! I'll share the recipe, then share with you what we did:

Ingredients

Scones:

• 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cold butter
• 2 eggs
• 1-1/4 cups canned pumpkin
• 3/4 cup milk, divided 

Glaze:

• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Directions

• In a large bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, pumpkin and 1/2 cup milk. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
• Turn onto a floured surface; knead 10 times. Divide dough in half. Pat each portion into an 8-in. circle; cut each into eight wedges. Separate wedges and place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Brush with remaining milk.
• Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks; cool for 10 minutes. Combine the glaze ingredients; drizzle over scones. Serve warm. Yield: 16 scones.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 338 calories, 13 g fat (8 g saturated fat), 59 mg cholesterol, 348 mg sodium, 51 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 5 g protein. 

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(and just to warn you, the rest of these pictures were taken with my computer.. so the quality is not stellar, but you'll get the point!)

We were kind of scared after last time, we were just hoping things would go better...

We mixed the dry ingredients...

Cut in the butter...

Mixed the wet ingredients, and then slowly added them to the dry (last time, we learned (too late) that it's best not to add all of the wet ingredients at once... and also a little trick about measuring the milk with the egg already in the measuring cup. It seemed to work much better this time. Once we'd mixed them completely, we added the chocolate chips.

Because we were actually able to create something that resembled a circle and didn't just stick completely to our hands... this is so much better!

Then we cut it...

and put the first half on a pan (we're so excited that they look so normal!)

While they were baking we made a little of the glaze, and glazed half of them when they came out of the oven - the glaze is yummy. We sugared the second half with sugar in the raw before baking them - they were wonderful as well!

Scones: Take 2!These are the "oh my goodness, we actually made normal-looking scones!" faces.  Hooray!

The scones were very tasty... you should try them - but not without reading up on scones... we did that too late the last time and this is what we ended up with...

this...

and this...

tasty, but an atrocious mess and not very pretty to look at...