Cheese Bacon Scones

Easy bacon scones with cheddar and spring onions. Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp and crunchy on the outside. Who can resist these cheese and bacon scones? I know I can’t.

With irresistible pieces of crunchy crisp bacon pieces, generous amounts of creamy, milky cheese, combined with the mild tastes of spring onions and buttermilk, what are you waiting for? Make these mouth-watering bites today!

Tips For Making These Bacon Scones

• Use lean bacon and cut it into small dice, then fry until crisp and golden. Allow the bacon to cool completely before adding to the mixture.
• Use cold butter straight from the fridge. Cut the butter into tiny cubes (or grate it) for easy mixing. Use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour, until it looks crumbly. It doesn’t have to be an even texture, it’s okay if it’s a bit lumpy (like coarse breadcrumbs).
• If you don’t have buttermilk, you can use milk.
• Finely grate the cheese, it will make mixing and cutting the scone dough easier.
• You can use either salted or unsalted butter.
• There is no need to add salt to this recipe. The bacon, cheese and butter – if your using salted butter, has more than enough salt to flavour these bacon scones.
• Stir buttermilk into the flour mixture until it all just comes together to form a soft dough. Don’t be tempted to knead the scone dough like bread. The less you work it the lighter the scones will be.

• When the dough is rolled to a 1½ cm thickness and cut into 6cm rounds you will get 13 scones. There will be a little piece of dough left over. Shape that into a ball and flatten it to the same thickness as the other scones and bake it with the rest. I like to call this the cooks treat. 😉
• Before baking lightly brush the tops of the scones with a little melted butter or milk.

Once you’ve tried these savoury scones, try this recipe for English scones perfect for an afternoon tea.

Recipe

This post has been updated on 30 July 2019, with additional information and new images.

Pocket Food Facts

Did You Know?

If you want light and fluffy scones, don’t over work the mixture. Combine all the wet ingredients with the dry until they just come together and no more. If you over work the dough it will become tough and chewy.