Recipe Notes.: Saturday Morning Scones.

I'm not usually this productive on Saturday mornings. I'm usually lying in bed and watching 8am turn into 12 noon. This morning however I was feeling pretty chipper so I decided to do some baking. I made some coffee (we all know I don't function before 11am without caffeine) and began baking!

These scones are super easy to make and only take about 30 minutes in total, including baking time!

I've made them before with blueberries and lemon zest, chocolate chips and a number of different combinations. Today I decided to go with plain old cheddar.

Here's the recipe:

2 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter, frozen
3/4 cup cream, plus more for brushing the scone tops (you can also use milk)
1 egg

Start by pre-heating the oven to 400 degrees. (make sure it's clean)

In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Grate in the frozen butter. Use a box grater, it makes the job a lot easier. Helps if you have a man around for the extra muscle. Grating is tiring work! Don't freak out if frozen butter starts flying around everywhere. It's all part of the process.

mountain of grated butter....

Mix together and then add in some grated cheddar cheese (or a cheese of your choice!)

In a medium bowl, whisk together the cream and the egg.

Add the cream and egg to the dry mixture and give it a good stir. You only want to mix it until it's just combined. You can add a couple more tablespoons of cream if needed. You don't want the dough to be too wet.

Once a dough is formed, turn it out onto a floured surface and pat out into a large circle about 2.5cm thick.

Use a biscuit cutter to divide up the dough (you can also cut the dough circle into wedges).