Cheese Scones Recipe NZ | Edmonds Cooking

Ingredients

3 cups Edmonds standard grade flour
3 tsp Edmonds baking powder
¾ cup grated cheese
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
¼ tsp mustard powder
¼ tsp salt
75g butter
1 ¼ cups milk
extra milk for glazing

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C. Grease or flour a baking tray.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Add cheese, cayenne pepper and mustard powder to the mixture. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Add the milk and quickly mix with a round-bladed table knife to a soft dough. For light and tender scones the mixture should be quite soft and a little sticky. Scrape the dough onto the floured baking tray and flour the top.
Working quickly, pat the dough out to 2cm thickness. With a floured knife, cut it into 12 even-sized pieces, then separate the scones to allow 2cm space between them. Brush the tops with milk.
Before baking, top each scone with a little more grated cheese. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool, wrapped in a clean tea towel to keep them soft.

Add your review

Shirley

Love ❤️

Kevin

This would have to be the best recipe for cheese scones. The flavor,lovely light scones. Went down a treat on a cold winters day

Destiny T

Here in 2024 and I’ve Been baking these with this recipe for at least 15 years now.

Kimberley

Just beautiful

Mackenzie

It is easy and yum

Kelsey

Inlive these you can add what you like i just love the cheese and cayenne pepper ...always add extra of voth these ingredients. Whole family demolish them. Great for filling hungry teenager's!