Easy Cheese Scones
Our easy cheese scones recipe is super simple. In no time at all you'll be enjoying warm scones, fresh from the oven smothered in butter. A total treat!
Cheese scones are one of those totally delicious, traditional British bakes.
They're best eaten still warm from the oven, broken open and smothered with butter. It's just such a treat!
They're also delicious with a wedge of cheese, some ploughman's chutney and a juicy red apple.
Best of all, our easy cheese scone recipe really is just so super simple. You can't mess them up!
Equipment Needed To Make Easy Cheese Scones
- Weighing scales
- Mixing bowl
- Dinner or butter knife
- Measuring jug
- Baking tray
- Pastry brush
- Cooling rack
Easy Cheese Scones Ingredients
You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make these delicious, light and fluffy cheese scones.
- 200g self raising flour
- 50g butter - at room temperature - plus a little extra for greasing the baking tray
- ½ teaspoon mustard powder - add more or less as you like
- 100g cheddar cheese - grated
- 100ml milk - plus a little extra for brushing the tops of the scones before baking.
How To Make Cheese Scones
You'll love how simple our recipe for cheese scones is to follow - just a few simple steps
Step One – preheat the oven
- Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6
- Lightly grease a baking tray with butter
Step Two – make the scone dough
- Tip the flour into a mixing bowl, tip the butter into the flour and then rub the butter into the flour using your fingertips, you really want it to be like fine breadcrumbs.
- Tip the grated cheese and mustard powder into the flour mixture. Mix it through the flour using a knife.
- Pour the milk into the flour and stir the scone mixture with a knife to bring it together as a soft dough.
- Then put your hands into the bowl and lightly knead the cheese scone dough, then using the knife divide it into six fairly equal portions.
- Sprinkle a little flour onto your hands, then pick up each portion of dough, mould it into a scone shape using your hands, then pat it onto the baking tray, ready for the oven.
- Brush the tops lightly with milk, and sprinkle over the last of the grated cheese.
Step Three - bake the cheese scones
- Put the savoury scones into the oven and bake for around 10-15 minutes or until the tops are starting to turn golden and the cheese is melted.
- Remove the tray from the oven and slide the cheese scones onto a cooling rack.
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How To Serve Savoury Scones
Our cheesy scones are delicious served any of the ways below
- Broken open still warm from the oven and smothered with cold butter so that it melts into the warm scone... just SO GOOD!
- Serve alongside a bowl of delicious homemade tomato soup.
- Eat as part of a ploughman's lunch with pork pies, slabs of cheese, apples and tomatoes.
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How To Store Cheese Scones
Okay, so these are absolutely best eaten fresh, preferably still warm from the oven, but you can store them for later if you like.
Just be sure to allow them to cool down properly, then store in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
Cooks Tip! When I do store them for later, I warm them up in the microwave before eating, this softens them and melts the cheese. Just be sure to reheat thoroughly.
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Easy Cheese Scones Recipe
A super easy cheese scone recipe - eat them still warm from the oven, smothered with butter. Just so GOOD!
Ingredients
- 200g self raising flour
- 50g butter
- ½ teaspoon mustard powder
- 100g Cheddar cheese - grated
- 100ml milk - plus a little extra for brushing the tops
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6
- Lightly grease a baking tray with butter
- Tip the flour into a mixing bowl, tip the butter into the flour and then rub the butter into the flour using your fingertips, you really want it to be like fine breadcrumbs.
- Tip the grated cheese and mustard powder into the flour mixture. Mix it through the flour using a knife.
- Pour the milk into the flour and stir the scone mixture with a knife to bring it together as a soft dough.
- Then put your hands into the bowl and lightly knead the cheese scone dough, then using the knife divide it into six fairly equal portions.
- Sprinkle a little flour onto your hands, then pick up each portion of dough, mould it into a scone shape using your hands, then pat it onto the baking tray, ready for the oven.
- Brush the tops lightly with milk, and sprinkle over the last of the grated cheese.
- Put the savoury scones into the oven and bake for around 10-15 minutes or until the tops are starting to turn golden and the cheese is melted.
- Remove the tray from the oven and slide the cheese scones onto a cooling rack.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 255Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 36mgSodium: 568mgCarbohydrates: 26gFiber: 1gSugar: 1gProtein: 8g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
