Cheese scones

For the fifth day in this weeks spring cooking series, today’s recipe is cheese scones.

Scones are traditionally ate at breakfast kind of like a biscuit but you can always have them as a appetizer at dinner! Just make sure to keep a glass of water by you when making these, they make you really thirsty after eating one!

You can always use a cookie cutter to shape the scones out in fun shapes and sizes but I prefer to stick to the traditional circle shape.

One last thing: When baking these scones in the oven, make sure to keep them kind of far apart, they tend to rise and spread and trust me you don’t want 2 scones sticking together!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1 stick of butter, sliced into thin squares
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 cup or more of grated cheddar cheese
• 1 egg

1. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, add all dry ingredients and pulse for 10 seconds until well combined

  

  

2. Once well combined, add slices of butter and pulse until small clumps have formed. After all your butter is pulsed and clumps have formed, turn the food processor on low and gradually add heavy whipping cream while the mixture is being processed.

  

Pulse until a shaggy dough forms and holds together as shown below. Also, this is a good time to preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

3. Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the dough and knead for a couple of minutes

  

Once your dough is needed, sprinkle some cheddar cheese on top of it and knead for a couple of more minutes so the cheese gets mixed into the dough

4. Cut up dough into 8 equal pieces, you can cut the dough into more than 8 pieces but then the scones will be too small. Now to form a scone properly, you have to sprinkle some cheese on top of it, fold it in half, and fold the half in fourths and grab this folded scone, place on cookie tray and press down on scone so it isn’t too thick. Repeat process with all scones.

  

   

5. In a bowl, beat the egg with a whisk or fork and egg wash all the scones using a pastry brush . Once all scones are egg washed, sprinkle some more cheese on top of the scones to make them nice and cheesy

  

6. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes until golden brown.

  

Summary:

1 cup of cheese is the average amount you should use when making these cones but as most of you saw, I like to go all out and use more than one cup. The more the better!

 

That’s how one scone looks up close

I repeat, it’s best to have a glass of water by you, these make you really thirsty!

Ever had one of those buttery and mouth watering biscuits from popeyes or red lobster? Now I usually don’t like to be those people who act like there food is really good when it probably taste like cat food, but these scones taste just like a butter biscuit from popeyes and red lobster!

Don’t think so? Then follow this recipe, eat the scones and compare it with the biscuits. These scones serve as a really good appetizer and the melted cheese on top is like the icing to the cake.

Enjoy your scones! Till tomorrows recipe….

– Chef/Author Zubair M.