Scone recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has self-raising flour, salt, baking powder, butter, caster sugar, yogurt, milk, vanilla extract and egg.
Easy fluffy scones
Course: Scone
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Yogurt: 150g pot natural full-fat yogurt
- Egg: 1 egg beaten with 1 tbsp milk, to glaze
- Milk: 4 tbsp full-fat milk
- Butter: 85g cold butter, cut into cubes
- Caster Sugar: 4 tbsp golden caster sugar
- Self Raising Flour: 350g self-raising flour, plus more for dusting
- Baking Powder: 1 tsp baking powder
- Salt: 1/4 tsp salt
- Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
- Put a baking sheet in the oven at 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Put the flour, salt and baking powder into a food processor, then whizz in the butter until it disappears. Pulse in the sugar, tip into a large bowl, then make a well in the middle.
- Warm the yogurt, milk and vanilla together in the microwave for 1 min or in a pan; it should be hot and may well go a bit lumpy-looking. Tip into the bowl and quickly work into the flour mix using a cutlery knife. As soon as it's all in, stop.
- Tip the dough onto a floured surface, then, with floured hands, fold the dough over a few times - just enough to create a smoothish dough. Press out to about 4cm/1 1/2 in thick, dip a 7cm cutter into more flour, then stamp out 4 rounds, flouring the cutter each time. Squash the remainder lightly together, then repeat until the dough is used up. Brush tops with egg wash, scatter flour over the hot sheet, then lift the scones on. Bake for 12 mins until risen and golden. Best eaten just-warm, or on the day.
