Red onion and paprika cheese scones

I was asked to make a few cakes for a charity bake sale, I made courgette and carrot cupcakes, morello cherry scones and these beauties. I wanted to have a savoury option that was a bit different from the norm so came up with this idea.

I took a normal cheese scone recipe and just added some fun extras.

Makes about 12 scones:

225g self raising flour

40g butter 

1 egg

100ml milk

100g cheese (grated)

pinch of salt and pepper

Ideas for added extras:

Paprika, cayenne pepper, mustard powder, souted onion, olives, sun dried tomato, roasted peppers (I'm sure there is a lot more that would be brilliant in scones)

• Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees C and grease a baking tray (I used a silicone non stick mat)
• Sift the flour into a bowl, add the powdered spices and then rub in the fat.
• With a fork mix in half of the grated cheese and any onion, olives or other added extras. 
• Add the egg and milk and stir with the fork to form a soft craggy dough, do not over mix.
• Turn out the dough onto a floured worktop and using your hands pat into shape so that it is about 2cm thick.
• Using a cutter of your choice (cooking times will depend on the size you have cut the scones so don't make them too large or the centre will never cook, I used a 2inch round fluted cutter) cut out the scones and place them onto your baking tray. 
• Reshape the remaining dough and cut more scones out.
• Sprinkle the top with the remaining cheese

• Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, they should be golden brown.

I didn't manage to get a picture of these when they were cooked as they got collected still warm and whisked off to the bake sale. I did save one for my husband and he loved it and I received good reviews from the people at the bake sale. 

I will have to make these again to get some more pictures for this blog :)

Happy cooking

xoxo