Name: The Best Buttery and Flakey Cheesy Ham Scones Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients: ¾ cup COLD buttermilk; 1 large Egg separated (egg white for brushing at the end); 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tsp garlic powder; ½ tsp salt (extra for topping at the end if wanted); ¼ tsp black pepper (fresh ground); 1 tbsp granulated white sugar; 2½ tsp baking powder; ¼ cup onion or chives (chopped); 1 heaping cup grated cheese (cheddar or anything you like); ½ cup unsalted COLD butter grated; 1 cup chopped ham (I used Black Forest)

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How to bake the best buttery and flakey cheesy ham scones, I guarantee every savoury crumb will be gobbled up. This is a simple recipe that won’t take more than 25 min to prepare!

how to make buttery and flakey cheese ham scones, scone on a plate with a knife with a butter dish to the right and below 3 pieces of scone cooling on a wire rack — Treehouse Homemaker

These scones are not dry but flakey and buttery. I put a little extra cheese and ham in my recipe to make them a little extra.

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INGREDIENTS YOU WILL NEED FOR CHEESY HAM SCONES

FLOUR – White all-purpose flour

SUGAR – White sugar

BAKING POWDER

GARLIC POWDER

SALT – Fine sea salt

PEPPER – Fresh ground pepper

ONION – Finely chopped or chives

CHEESE – Cheddar cheese grated

BUTTER – Unsalted butter

BUTTERMILK – Or whole milk, make sure its COLD

EGG – Separated

HAM – I used Black Forest deli ham chopped up

6 buttery and flakey cheese hame scones on a blue plate — Treehouse Homemaker

What is the trick to a buttery flakey scone?

COLD, The trick is keep your ingredients cold.

Milk should be chilled, I sometimes put ice cubes in my milk while i’m pouring into the dry ingredients.

Butter should be cold too, keep grated butter in the fridge until you are going to use it.

Before you bake your scones put them in the freezer for 15 minutes while you are waiting for your oven to pre heat.

OVER MIXING – Do not over mix your dough. The more you work the dough the more gluten forms. You only want to mix flour and liquid ingredients together until they are JUST combined.

When working your dough on the counter, handle as little as possible to get it into shape.

buttery and flakey cheese hame scone on a wood board with butter on top and a butter knife below — Treehouse Homemaker

How to bake the best buttery and flakey cheesy ham scones

In a small bowl whisk together 3/4 cup of ice cold buttermilk and egg YOLK, place in the fridge. (Save the egg white for the last step).

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, pepper, baking powder and garlic powder. To this bowl add the onion and grated cheese.

To the large bowl add COLD grated butter. Mix together using a pastry cutter, forks, butter knife or a bench scraper. (Avoid using your hands because it will warm up the butter)

Once the butter is in pea size pieces you can get your cold buttermilk and egg mixture and slowly add it to the flour little by little until the mixture is just combined and clumpy. If it seems too dry you can add more buttermilk 1 tbsp at a time.

When dough seems to be the right consistency pour onto a lightly floured work surface. Without handling the dough too much work it into an 8inch disk. Cut dough into 8 pieces with a knife or a bench scraper.

Now is the time for the EGG WHITES you saved from earlier. Whisk together with a fork or an Electric Whisk, and brush onto each scone. If desired you can sprinkle on a little sea salt as well.

Place onto a lined cookie sheet about 1-2 inches apart and put in the fridge.

Pre heat your oven to 400F

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. The scone will be a nice golden colour on top. Place on a cooling rack and enjoy after 5 minutes with some butter. YUM, You did it… the perfect ham and cheese scone.

Try this Glazed Mixed Berry Scone to satisfy your sweet tooth.