A delicious and easy recipe, only a few ingredients and quick to make, you will love these 4 ingredient cheese scones
I am always on the look out for new savoury recipes to share but many are fiddly and time consuming and none of us have time for that at the moment! So I thought I would share one of the simplest.
I love a cheese scone, but it must have the magic ingredient, and that is cheese! So many times I buy a cheese scone only to be disappointed in the cheese to scone ratio. So therefore you are going to need a lot of cheese to make that happen.
Ideally you want a strong cheese, an aged cheddar would be perfect. This helps to enhance the flavour of the scone. I use a variety here we call Tasty cheese but really any hard strong cheese will be lovely
This recipe today is the bare basics recipe, you can however add to this any variations you like. You can look to add salt & pepper, a pinch of cayenne pepper or paprika, or even fresh parsley or crispy bacon bits!
Many of you will already know of my original 3 ingredient scones, a simple delicious recipe consisting of self raising flour, cream and lemonade (sprite). The savoury version is simply swapping the sprite for soda water.
The end result of this swap is super light and delicious scones!
Ingredients you need are:
Self Raising Flour
Cream
Soda Water
Cheese
Many people have trouble making traditional scones, me included. So I love this version, there are only a couple of steps and the process is really easy. Much like making scones you will want to use light hands and handle the dough as little as possible.
Once I have combined the ingredients gently into a ball I place this on a floured bench top and gently bring it together lightly. Then using just my hands I gently press this into a square shape, lining up the sides into straight edges and then pressing down, repeating until I get a square, there is no need for a rolling pin.
Continue the shaping and pressing down until the dough is approximately 2.5 cm thick. You can cut the scones with a round cookie cutter or do as I have done and create even squares.
I like to glaze my savoury scones with a little milk and if you like you can top with a little additional cheese for more cheesey goodness.
You can find my other recipes based on 3 ingredient cream & lemonade scones here
Original 3 Ingredient Scones
Raspberry Lemonade Scones
Easy Hot Cross Scones
You want to bake the scones until they are lightly golden brown and when you tap them they sound hollow. You may find this can take up to 20 minutes for thicker scones like I have made today.
So onto the recipe for my 4 ingredient cheese scones, I look forward to hearing what you think.
4 Ingredient Cheese Scones
Delicious light and fluffy cheese scones, super easy to make
Ingredients
- 4 Cups Self Raising Flour, 540 grams
- 250 mls of Cream
- 250 mls of Soda Water
- 230 grams Cheese, grated (hard aged cheddar) 4-5 Cups
- Milk to glaze
- Additional grated cheese if you choose for topping
Optional ideas to add to taste
- Salt & Pepper
- Cayenne Pepper (just a pinch)
- Paprika
- Crispy Bacon Bits
- Finely Diced Parsley and more!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220 Bake ( 425F)
- Prepare a baking tray with baking paper and set aside
- Grate the cheese
- In a large bowl add the flour and grated cheese and carefully combine the two with your hands or a large wooden spoon
- Add to this the cream and soda water and using a large wooden spoon or your hands combine the ingredients gently.
- If the dough looks dry add a splash more of both the soda water & cream and combine. It should not be wet but needs to come together in a soft ball
- On a floured surface tip out the scone dough and form into a ball. Dust the scone mix lightly with flour and begin to gently press into shape
- You want to make a square that is approximately 2.5cm high
- To create the square shape gently press down the dough to spread it, and use your hands to keep the shape square, press down again and square up again until it is a suitable height.
- Slice into 4 even lengths, then 4 even lengths the other direction to create 16 even shapes. Or you can use a cookie cutter
- Place these 1 cm apart on a baking tray and lightly brush with a small amount of milk (if wanting to top with additional cheese sprinkle that over now)
- Place the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes, check at this time, they may require up to 5-6 minutes more, so I cook for 3 minute intervals from this time until I am happy.
- They are cooked perfectly when lightly golden brown on the top and bottom and sound hollow to tap.
- Remove from the oven and serve warm with butter
- Store in an airtight container once cooled.
- Can be frozen and reheated in the oven.
- Enjoy!
How easy is that! I cannot wait to hear what you think of this one.
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Happy Baking
Anna
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BookBucket says
How do you think it would work with a softer cheese like Edam?
justamumnz says
I would be lovely.
Anne McCarthy says
These are the best scones i have ever made. Always found messy to make but i will certainly be making these again and again. Yummy .
Bronwyn says
I added 4 tbs of corn relish to mine and they were fantastic usually l add a finely chopped pickled onions.
Susan says
My best scone recipe ….250grms flour ,125grms leftover mashed potato , 125grms grated Tasty cheese , 4 tsp BP, milk to mix …they stay flat , can be toasted next day …if any left …yummo
justamumnz says
That sounds lovely with mashed potato. How much milk would you use?