Easy Cheddar Cheese Scones

If you are looking for an easy savory scone recipe, this easy cheddar cheese scones recipe is for you. Made with simple quality ingredients like cheddar cheese, all-purpose flour, butter, eggs and cream, these cheddar scones are the best cheese scones you can make and so delicious. These cheddar scones are a great breakfast, snack, or the perfect side dish to any dinner.

About these light and fluffy cheese scones

I am a really big fan of scones and normally I will make vanilla scones, blueberry scones , apple scones or blackberry scones. However, sometimes you just want a delicious savory scone and that is when I make these light and fluffy cheddar scones.

The cheddar cheese scones are basically like an upgraded gourmet biscuit and are so easy to make. The cheddar cheese in these scones is a light flavor so you can still taste all that delicious butter in the recipe.

There are all the amazing layers that you want in a good scone recipe and they are light and fluffy (meaning you are definitely going to want to eat more than one!)

These cheese scones are out of this World delicious and so easy to make. We love making these savory cheddar scones in the Fall and Winter to go along with our Jewish brisket, Dutch oven beef stew and French beef stew.

We also make these sometimes as a replacement for our yogurt biscuits when we don't have yogurt since the cheddar flavor is not overly heavy. You can eat these cheese scones on their own or serve them as a side but just make sure you make these delicious scones!

Ingredients Needed

• All-purpose flour
• White cheddar cheese
• Unsalted butter
• Heavy cream
• Kosher salt
• Baking powder
• Eggs
• A pinch of sugar (see below for why we do this)

All of the ingredients listed here are very simple. The cheese scones start with basic scone dough ingredients and the only addition that you are going to add is cheddar cheese.

I prefer using white cheddar cheese so the scones do not look orange. If orange cheddar is all you have, by all means use that.

The one thing you will notice that seems a little different is this recipe has you add a little sugar (not shown in the picture) to the savory scone dough. This sugar is not a mistake.

The sugar helps improve the structure of the dough and you will not taste it. I promise.

How to make

To make these cheddar cheese scones, here is what you do:

1. The first thing you want to do is add all of your dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt and sugar) to a large bowl and mix together.
2. Next, you cube your butter and place it in the fridge so that it stays cold.
3. Once the dry ingredients are done being mixed, you want to start on the wet ingredients. Add your cream, one egg and to a small bowl and whisk until incorporated. Now add the shredded cheddar cheese and mix well and place in the fridge.

Now all of the scone ingredients are ready to be assembled.

4. With a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour until you barely see any more lumps of butter. If you are using a food processor, add your flour and butter to it and pulse it 5-7 times until it resembles coarse sand.
5. Now with your fingertips, grab some of the flour and butter mixture and rub it between your fingers. You are trying to find any lumps of butter that you missed. Keep doing this until you stop finding any large clumps of butter.

How to make scones that are light and fluffy with lots of layers

Once you follow the steps above, this is how you are going to get light and fluffy cheese scones. You are making sure the butter is fully incorporated into the flour. Now you are ready to shape the scones.

To do this you are going to bring the scone dough together to form a ball (it will be a bit shaggy at this point. Press down the dough into a disc about 6-7 inches in diameter and ¾ inches thick. 

Fold your disc in half and press back out into a disc. Keep doing this until you have folded the dough a few times. This will give the cheese scones those flaky layers!

When you are ready to cut the scones, I prefer cutting all scones I make into triangles because there are no scraps of scone dough that go to waste or need to be reformed.

How to serve

These cheddar cheese scones make a delicious snack, breakfast or side dish to so many meals. Here are some ideas for how to serve these savory scones.

• Serve these cheddar scones with a side of warm butter for a quick afternoon snack or with tea.
• Make a light spinach and mushroom salad to go along with these scones for a complete meal.
• Serve these savory cheese scones alongside our vegetable soup with cabbage or alongside our favorite Italian minestrone or Winter minestrone soup for a cozy soup dinner.
• Serve it with fried egg with prosciutto or alongside baked eggs for the ultimate breakfast.

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