Easy Scones | 4 Ingredient Recipe (2024)

This Easy Scones recipe requires just FOUR Ingredients to make and you can have these scones ready to go into the oven within 10 minutes! These Scones are deliciously soft and fluffy with just the right amount of crust. They are best enjoyed slightly warm and slathered with a generous helping of jam and cream – in that order of course! This recipe includes both conventional and Thermomix cooking instructions.

Why you will love this recipe!

If you are looking for the perfect morning or afternoon tea treat, this recipe is for you. All you need is four simple ingredients that are probably already in your pantry and fridge (woohoo!) and within half an hour you will have a batch of fresh scones in your kitchen.

• Quick to make – these Scones take less than 30 minutes to prepare and bake.
• Freezer Friendly – you can pop any leftovers into the freezer and store for up to three months.
• Budget friendly – this recipe requires simple ingredients you may already have at home.
• Lunchbox Snack – you can make smaller sized scones (the cooking time will need to be amended) to pop into the kids lunchboxes for a treat.

Ingredients

• Self-raising flour – you can make your own if you only have plain flour, add 1 teaspoon of baking powder for each cup of flour.
• Butter – for best results when combining the flour and butter, use butter that has been cut into 1-2cm pieces and is chilled from the fridge.
• Milk – you can use either full fat or reduced fat milk for this recipe.

Method:

This Scones recipe really is simple to make, especially as you only need four ingredients to put it together!

1. Rub the butter pieces into the flour.
2. Add the milk and gently mix to combine.
3. Turn the dough out onto a bench which has been lightly coated with flour and gently shape into a rectangle.
4. Cut out the scones using a round cutter.
5. Place onto your baking tray and lightly brush with milk before popping into the oven.

Tips for making the BEST Scones:

• Take care not to over mix the scone dough, if you mix it too much the scones will lose some of their lightness.
• The mixture will be quite sticky when you tip it onto your bench – this is normal. I suggest to spread approximately ¼ cup of extra flour over your bench and lightly dust your fingertips with flour when shaping the dough into a rectangle.
• Dip your cookie cutter into flour to help the scones easily be removed.
• Place the scones so that they are almost touching each other onto your baking tray, this will help them to rise up instead of outwards.
• If you wish, you can brush a little milk over the top of the scones before baking, however this isn’t essential.
• The cooking time will vary depending on the size of your scones, I suggest checking them at the 10 minute mark.
• You will know the scones are cooked when they sound hollow when lightly tapped.

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