Scone recipes
Discover our best scone recipes. Make a cream tea or experiment with fruit, cheese or flavoured versions. We’ve even got an air fryer scone!
- Simple old-fashioned scones: Get started with our classic plain scone recipe, perfect for serving with jam and clotted cream. It uses just three ingredients and takes 30 minutes. Self-raising flour helps ensure big fluffy scones.
- The best cheese scone recipe ever: Our ultimate cheese scones are made with mature cheddar and a hint of cayenne pepper and mustard for deep savoury flavour. We’ve included plenty of tips for best results, warming the milk and water mixture to give the raising agent a boost and pressing out the dough rather than rolling it to avoid stretching or compacting it.
- Fruit and flavoured scones: Add mix-ins to your scone dough for extra impact. We’ve got traditional fruit ones with raisins plus wilder creations, including cheese and pickle, limoncello and blueberry, and pistachio and rosewater.
Browse more afternoon tea ideas, including madeleines, millefeuille and millionaire’s shortbread.
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Wild garlic and cheddar scones
Give cheese scones a spring twist. These wild garlic scones pair the fresh punch of wild garlic with mature cheddar for an easy savoury bake.
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Wheaten scones with comté and pickled walnuts
These crumbly wheaten scones make the perfect starter for six people, served with nutty comté cheese and pickled walnuts.
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Christmas air fryer recipes
Air fryer mini stilton-rarebit scones with onion chutney
Preparing Christmas canapés like these stilton scones in advance, then cooking them in the air fryer for a few minutes, is a lifesaver.
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Nicola Lamb’s flaky cheese and pickle scones
Cheese scones get the flaky treatment. Rye flour and gherkins in the layers gives these scones a deli-sandwich energy, welcome at any picnic.
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Cottage cheese and chive scones
Cottage cheese gives these deliciously savoury scones a subtle tang, amped up with a little kick of chilli.
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Cheese and mixed herb scones
Cherie Denham's cheese scones are the ultimate treat with vegetable soup – a marriage of tangy cheese and herbs strewn over a soft scone.
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Fruit scones
If you’re in need of a classic fruit scone recipe, look no further than this foolproof option made with buttermilk. These fluffy scones can be ready in 30 minutes, and you can use sultanas or raisins - whichever you have to hand.
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Afternoon tea
Cheddar, chive and Marmite scones
Take your cheese scone game to the next level with Debora Robertson's easy recipe for flaky and light cheddar, chive and Marmite scones.
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Pizzas
Watercress and tomato scone-based ‘pizza’
We've flavoured our pizza-with-a-scone-base, with watercress and cheddar cheese for a tasty twist and topped it with seasonal cherry tomatoes.
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Limoncello and blueberry scones
Not sure whether the jam or the cream comes first? Avoid the issue completely with our limoncello and blueberry scones – perfect for afternoon tea.
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Easy scones
Make our easy recipe for classic freshly-baked scones next time you want to treat yourself or someone special to afternoon tea.
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Brunch
Cinnamon drop scones with honeyed butter
These light and fluffy drop scones are served warm, topped with a generous slick of salted honey butter. It's a dream of a breakfast.
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The ultimate cheese scones
These light and fluffy cheese scones are easy to make and topped with a toasted cheese crust. A delicious savoury treat for afternoon tea.
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Peter Gordon’s cheese scones
Peter Gordon perfected his scone recipe at his restaurant The Providores. Enjoy warm from the oven or the next day, toasted and buttered.
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Blueberry scones
The fresh blueberries used in these scones offer welcome pockets of sweetness. Serve with jam and cream - the perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea.
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Pistachio and rosewater scones
Eric Lanlard adds fragrant rosewater and pistachios to the classic British scones recipe for a Middle-Eastern spin on afternoon tea.
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