Cream Cheese Scones

Name: Cream Cheese Scones
Yield: Makes sixteen 6.25-7.5 cm triangular scones
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon baking powder; Baking sheet or swiss roll tin lined with baking paper or foil; ¾ teaspoon salt; 110 g cream cheese, cold and cut into 20 pieces; 390 g plain flour; 55 g sugar; 75 ml full fat milk, cold; 2 medium eggs, cold; 85 g unsalted butter, cold and cut into 12 pieces

Preparation info

Makes
sixteen
6.25-7.5 cm triangular scones

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

Cream cheese adds a note of richness and some flakiness to these simple scones.

Ingredients

390 g plain flour
55 g sugar
1 tablespoon

Europe
Americas
United States
United Kingdom
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Set a rack in the centre of the oven and preheat to 220°C/gas mark 7.
In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and set aside.
Place the cream cheese, butter and eggs in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade a