These Vegan Chocolate Chip Scones have the perfect combination of soft centers with crisp edges. Made with ingredients like whole grain flour, lightly sweetened with coconut sugar, using coconut oil (or vegan butter!) and loaded with mini chocolate chips.
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I first shared this vegan scone recipe many moons ago, and I thought it was about time I come back and share some more insight as to why you must not wait any longer to make homemade scones!
This chocolate chip scone recipe first made its debut back in 2016. Since then I’ve made so many variations. But these mini chocolate chip scones will always have my heart.
Simple Chocolate Chip Scone Recipe
I am going to show you how to make moist tender scones that have crisp edges and soft middles.
These whole wheat scones are not like traditional english scones, nor are they dry and crumbly. They’re like the perfect cross between a muffin and a biscuit!
Let’s go over the ingredients you’ll need to make the best chocolate chip scones.
Vegan Scone Ingredients
- whole wheat white flour – you can also use whole wheat pastry flour, or a mix of all purpose with whole wheat. OR a 1:1 gluten-free baking flour.
- baking powder – this helps give the scones their height!
- salt – to balance flavor.
- coconut sugar (or dry sweetener of choice) – whatever granulated sugar you’d like to use will work. (Just don’t sub with wet.)
- frozen coconut oil – this is the fat you’ll need to help get the texture of the scones right. And yes, it must be frozen! You can also use frozen (vegan) butter. More notes on that below!
- canned coconut milk – using canned coconut milk will give you a richer texture, but whatever milk you have on hand should work as well.
- vanilla extract – flavor!
- mini chocolate chips – lots of them.
- coarse sugar for sprinkling – this is optional but definitely gives these scones their bakery style feel.
Homemade Scones are EASY
For those wondering if it’s hard to make scones, it most certainly is not. It’s SO EASY. I’ll walk you through a couple different processes for making these vegan scones.
Using a Pastry Cutter
Before I had a food processor, I would grate the frozen coconut oil with a box grater, then work the frozen pieces into the bowl of dry ingredients with a pastry cutter (I like OXO dough blender). If you do go this route, I’d get frozen vegan / dairy free butter, as it grates much easier than frozen coconut oil.
My original vegan scone recipes calls for coconut oil as the fat – You can also use the same amount of frozen vegan butter. Either way, frozen is very important as it helps create more of a biscuit texture. If your fat isn’t frozen, the texture will turn out more like muffins.
Once the frozen coconut oil is worked into the dry ingredients, slowly add milk and vanilla, stirring until the dough forms, and stir in chocolate chips.
Then shape into an 8″ circle on baking sheet with parchment paper, pre-slice, bake and then fully cut and bake again. <– the double bake method gets nicely crisp edges with soft middles!
Using a Food Processor
If you have a food processor, these scones come together very easily.
First pulse the dry ingredients together in the food processor bowl. Then add in the frozen coconut oil, pulsing until little bits of coconut oil into the flour mixture are visible.
Remove the S-blade and pour in milk and vanilla, stirring until almost combined, then stir in chocolate chips.
Shape dough into an 8″ circle, pre-slice into 8 triangles, and bake. Then for the last 5 minute, re-cut and separate slices to bake for another 5 minutes.
NOTE: If you find your circle of dough and knife is sharp enough to fully slice and separate the triangles completely, you can also do this and bake just once.
Tips for baking the best vegan scones
- Make sure to use frozen coconut oil or frozen butter – I touched base on this above but it is very important! Frozen fat will give you the biscuit-like texture.
- If your dough seems too dry – add a splash of milk and use hands to continue to combine.
- If your dough seems too wet – add about a tablespoon of flour and use hands to combine. You want your dough sticky enough to hold together, but not so much that the dough is all over your hands and you can’t create a circle or cut into triangles.
- Move somewhat quickly from one step to the next – If you wait too long between steps, the dough will become soft (room temperature) and not bake properly. You can also place the shaped dough in the fridge for about 20 minutes before baking as well.
I hope you love these whole wheat chocolate chip scones as much as we do!
Let me know if you make this recipe by leaving a comment and review below! I love hearing from you and it helps others learn more about the recipe too.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Scones
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat white flour*
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar, or dry sweetener of choice
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup frozen coconut oil, grated
- 1 cup canned coconut milk, lite or full-fat both work
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dairy-free mini chocolate chips
- turbinado/coarse sugar for sprinkling, optional but love the crunch it brings!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl add flour, sugar, baking powder, & salt. Whisk until well combined and set aside.
- Grate frozen coconut oil into large bowl of dry ingredients. Using dough blender, work coconut oil into flour mixture until a grainy, meal texture forms. (You may also use two forks to blend the frozen oil into the dough. OR feel free to use food processor to cut in the frozen coconut oil. Remove blade before moving on to the next steps.)
- Gently stir in the coconut milk and vanilla extract to bowl of dry ingredients, careful not to overwork the dough. Gently fold in chocolate chips The dough should be thick and slightly sticky. If dough is very wet still, add a couple more tablespoons flour. If dough feels dry, add a splash of milk.
- Shape dough into large circle, about 8″ in diameter, on prepared baking sheet. Using a large, sharp knife, make 8 triangle slices into dough.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, then remove from oven to re-cut slices and pull apart triangles slightly. Bake for another 5 minutes, until edges and tops are lightly browned. (Using this technique will allow edges to get crispy.)
- Let scones cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely. Scones will stay fresh in airtight container up to 3 days, if they last that long… (You can also double wrap scones with plastic wrap and store in freezer up to 1 month. Thaw at room temperature or in microwave.)
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