Chocolate Chip and Coconut Scones

     On August 14th, Arnauld and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary.  We happened to be visiting my sister in North Carlina that weekend and had a fun time hanging out with some of our favorite people in the whole wide world.  The first wedding anniversary gift is traditionally paper.  Arnauld and I had agreed to stick to paper gifts and my parents also went in on the tradition.  They gave us tickets to see Memphis on Broadway.  We were so excited and thought this was a really great and thoughtful gift.  As we began to plan for our day in the city, I envisioned blue skies and the super cute clothes I would buy to help me get excited about the start of a new school year.  However, someone named Irene had other visions for the day.  Her visions included downed power lines, torrential downpours, and snow days in August.
    Fortunately for us, Broadway shut down for the hurricane and we were able to reschedule our tickets for tomorrow.  We were also able to buy additional tickets for my parents, who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary, as well as my brother and his girlfriend, Annie. We are going to be driving into the city, just a little over an hour away.  Anything over an hour is a road trip and you always need snacks for road trips!  I'm hopeful that the rain will hold off and we will be able to make a day of it-hence the scones for breakfast...

Chocolate Chip and Coconut Scones

Ingredients
2 cups flour
3 tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1/2 cup almond milk (you can also use regular milk)
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup shredded coconut

Method
1. Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl.  Mix together.
2. Use a pastry blender to cut in the butter.  The mixture should be course and crumbly.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, and vanilla.  Add this to the flour mixture and mix together with a fork.
4. Next mix in the chocolate chips and coconut, stirring just until the mixture begins to come together.
5. Knead the dough on a well floured surface, 5-6 times.  Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a 8 inch circle.  Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into 6-8 diamonds or triangles.
6. Place the scones on a greased baking sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes.  The scones should be golden.

The Taste Test
Delicious.  All of the scones were devoured prior to arriving in NYC!

     So my sister has been in North Carolina since July and our family here in Connecticut has been missing the Ritchie family like crazy.  Since they couldn't join us for our trip to the city yesterday, my parents decided to make them smile by sending pictures of themselves posing with any characters they could find on the streets of New York.