Chocolate hazelnut scones

I was going to try orange chocolate chip scones, but I was too lazy to zest the orange and the Frangelico was right there.

2/3 cup whipping cream
1 egg
1 tspn vanilla
2 tspns Frangelico
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/3 cup sugar
2 1/2 tspns baking powder
1/4 tspn salt
1/3 cup butter
1/2 - 2/3 cup chocolate chips
cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, as seem good to you

Preheat the oven to 375. Mix the egg, cream, vanilla and booze in a small bowl and set aside.

Whisk together the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in the butter until the mixture is coarse and crumbly. Stir in the chocolate chips. Add the liquids and stir until the dough comes together. (I needed extra cream, so keep some at hand.)

Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface, just a few times. (It's sticky, but not as bad as Guinness gingerbread batter.) Shape the dough into a flattish circle and cut into 8 triangles. The original recipe included a wash a one well-beaten egg and a tablespoon of milk, but I didn't make that.

Bake for 15 minutes. Toothpick testing is harder with chocolate chip things.

Nom nom nom.

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Nin90 Day 4
Words today: 2929
Words total: 10102

10102 / 67500 words. 15% done!
Reason for stopping: can't figure out the next scene
Sustenance: jambalaya and wine
Mammalian assistance: Biological warfare from both ends of the cat
Words Word don't know: spiderweb, keloid, taloned, kyphotic, shite
Words I'm surprised Word do know: crepuscule

Opening lines: They wake as the sun crawls below the ragged skyline and shadows melt across the streets. This is their time--crepuscule, twilight, in-between times.

Closing lines: She glances back once despite her pride, glimpses his face ghostly through the shadowed glass. Then he fades into the darkness, silent as Eurydice.

For public accountability, I've put the first chapter up here.