Homemade English scones

Is making your own scones difficult? Absolutely not! With this recipe for English scones you can easily make them yourself for a high tea or brunch, and serve them with clotted cream of course. Today I give you the recipe and all the baking tips you need.

English scones recipe

After I once made scones years back that failed miserably, I was postponing baking them again. With about 6 or 7 years to be exact. I then made a chocolate chip variety that ended up being more like bricks than scones. They really were complete failures.

But every time I ate scones again, I started to feel the urge to make them myself. Last week I finally got around to making my own! At the time, it must have been because of the recipe I had, because actually, making scones yourself is extremely simple. With the right scones recipe to be exact.

Scones and clotted cream

There are lots of delicious things you can put on these easy scones, but this is the most important: clotted cream. If you have enough time (and patience) then it is wonderful to make clotted cream yourself (I will share my recipe soon). But you can also buy it at the store.

The clotted cream is usually combined with jam. Usually this is strawberry jam, but I also like raspberry jam very much for my homemade scones.

What is really delicious too: lemon curd! A combination that makes it nice and fresh, perfect for Easter or a summer brunch.

Eggless scones

As you can see, there is no egg in this recipe which makes it egg free scones. Here in The Netherlands, it is more common to make English scones and those often don’t require eggs in the recipe. You really don’t need eggs to make perfectly delicious scones yourself.

What do you actually need if you’re going to make a scones recipe? Not much. I can tell you that in advance. You probably have the ingredients already in your house, so hopefully after reading this post, there’s nothing stopping you from baking these delicious, slightly sweet scones yourself.

• Unsalted butter, I personally always use room temperature butter, but cold butter can also be used in this case.
• Self-rising flour, in this case you do not need to add additional leavening agent to the dough yourself.
• Fine granulated sugar, a small amount to give a slight sweet taste to these sweet scones.
• Pinch of salt, this is important for flavor and ensures proper gluten formation.
• Milk, so that the scones contain enough moisture and to give them a milk wash before they go into the oven.
• Round (cookie) cutter, I like using one from this set.