Cheese Scones

Growing up, one night in May each year would mean only one thing - Eurovision! And this year was no different, clipboards at the ready, a number of close family friends were round in various costumes for another night of (questionable) music but lots of laughs. Rather than going all European with my baking I stuck to crowd pleasers for all of those in attendance. For my Mum, a Victoria sandwich, for her friend Christine, some of my chocolate brownies and last but not least for Janice, extremely cheesy cheese scones.

Scones are very easy to make and can be tailored to suit all by a quick change of the fillings from sweet to savoury.

Scones

I have been craving a cream scone since Christmas Eve when I went for a walk with my Mum and her friend - but the usual cafe wasn't open! So with mother's day on the approach we planned to go for a nice country side walk and take a picnic of tea and scones with us for at the end. The weather forecast soon changed those plans but we still had scones as part of a nice indoor picnic at my brother's house.

To appeal to all, I made three different types of scone for mother's day - a plain scone, a cherry scone and a vegan sultana scone. This basic recipe can be adapted to make any flavour you like. I have tried a few different scone recipes including Paul Hollywood's which uses bread flour (wasn't keen on that recipe). This is the best one I've found so far and they turned out really light and fluffy.