Recipe - Chocolate Peanut Butter Scones

2 cup Flour
One half cup Sugar, brown
2 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Butter, sweet; chilled
Three fourths cup Peanut butter, creamy
One fourth cup Milk
2 Egg
2 teaspoon Vanilla
One half cup Peanuts, unsalted; chopped
1 One half ounce Chocolate, bittersweet

Approx. Cook Time: 0:17
Break chocolate into 8 equal pieces. Preheat oven to 375F. In a large
bowl, stir together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut
the butter into 1/2inch cubes and distribute them over the flour mixture.
With a pastry blender or two knives used scissors fashion, cut in the
butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, stir
together the peanut butter mixture to the flour mixture and knead until
combined. Knead in the peanuts. Pat the dough out into a 1/2inch
thickness on a cutting board. Using a floured 2One half in. to 3in. diameter
crinkled round biscuit cutter, cut out rounds from the dough. Gather the
scraps together and repeat until all the dough is used and there are 16
round. Place 8 of the rounds on an ungreased baking sheet. Top each round
with a piece of the chocolate and one of the remaining circles of dough.
Press the edges gently to seal. Bake for 1719 minutes, or until lightly
browned. Remove the baking sheet to a wire rack and cool 5 minutes. Using
a spatula, transfer the scones to the wire rack to cool. Serve warm or cool
completely and store in an airtight container. VARIATION (Randy's
Preference): Make the dough as above, omitting bittersweet chocolate,
substituting One half c. unsalted peanuts for the chopped peanuts and kneading
in Three fourths c. semisweet chocolate chips at the same time. Put the dough into a
9inch diameter circle on a baking sheet. With a serrated knife, cut into 8
wedges. Bake 2022 minutes, or until a cake tested or toothpick inserted
into the center of a scone comes out clean. Cool as above and recut into
wedges, if necessary.

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