I Made Scones

Scones are surprisingly easy to make. I was fully prepared to spend a few hours in the kitchen or to have an all-day baking spree but they took less than 30 minutes to make. I probably sound so silly to some of you who have baked scones before, but I never had, so I didn’t know what to expect.

I used the Classic Special Scones recipe from Mary Berry’s ‘Fast Cakes’ cookbook. The recipe was really easy to follow and as a whole, the book is really good too. I have a lot of cooking and baking books that I very rarely use. When I’m thinking of something to bake or I'm coming up with new and exciting ingredient combinations, I always end up searching for recipes online rather than just grabbing one of the cookbooks off of my shelf. I find that looking through my cookbooks inspires me to be creative and to bake more frequently. I would recommend using cooking or baking books instead of just browsing the web because when I’m physically flicking through the pages of a book, there are always so many other recipes that catch my eye, whereas, if you’re online you’re only really seeing the specific recipe that you searched for. 

One of the main things that surprised me about this recipe is that not much goes into making scones. It's definitely an ideal recipe if you're baking on a budget or baking multiple things in one day, not only is it quick and easy, but doesn't use much of each ingredient either, so they'll be plenty to spare for other sweet treats. 

Ingredients: 

225g - Self-raising Flour

1 tsp - Baking Powder 

50g - Butter 

25g - Caster Sugar 

1 - Egg

Milk 

All you need to do is place the self-raising flour, baking powder, and butter into a large bowl, use your fingers to rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and give it a quick mix before cracking an egg into a measuring jug. Lightly beat the egg with a fork then add milk until it reaches 125ml. 

Add most of the egg/milk mixture into your large mixing bowl (saving around 1tbsp for glazing) and use your hands to form a soft dough. Turn the dough onto a floured surface, roll, cut and glaze then place on a lined baking tray and bake for 10 minutes at 200 degrees c. 

So there you have it, an easy, cheap and reliable scone recipe that's tried and tested by me. I would absolutely recommend this recipe to anyone. Despite it using so few ingredients, it makes so many scones, you definitely get good value for money making these. I ended up taking half a dozen over to my parent's house because my boyfriend and I couldn't fathom eating 10 scones just between the two of us. 

I know it's a common and regular debate as to how the word 'scone' is pronounced, I personally pronounce it how it's spelled but I know a lot of people (annoyingly) pronounce it 'scon'. Let me know down in the comments how you and your family pronounce it and if you put the jam or cream on first. I'm a believer that you spread the jam first and then dollop the cream!