Triple Chocolate Peppermint Scones

by Jennifer // December 22, 2020 // 2218 Comments

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I can no longer make scones without thinking of Larry David’s incredibly harsh criticism of the scones at Mocha Joe’s coffee shop in the most recent season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. In a series of disappointments with Mocha Joe’s coffee shop, including a wobbly table and a cold cup of coffee, Larry refers to Mocha Joe’s scone as, “a little soft” and comments to the increasingly irritated coffee shop owner that it tastes more like a muffin.

“Scones are supposed to be hard,” Larry says.

Mocha Joe tells him, “Not really, they’re supposed to be soft. They’re supposed to be fresh.”

“Fresh-hard,” Larry replies, before walking away with his scone and thanking Mocha Joe for the muffin.

Larry then sets off to start his own coffee shop (Latte Larry’s), which he refers to as a “spite shop”, serving to take revenge on Mocha Joe’s subpar cafe and mediocre scones.

Although Larry David’s Curb character is a giant asshole, he actually has sound advice when it comes to this particular brand of breakfast cakes. I set forth making these here Triple Chocolate Peppermint Scones with one goal in mind: to make them the perfect fresh-hard texture. I think they would live up to his scone standards. The dark chocolate fresh-hard scones are dotted with jumbo dark chocolate chips, drizzled with a chocolate ganache, and sprinkled with peppermint pieces. They definitely would pass as a solid spite-store scone. That I’m sure of.