Rukmini Iyer’s Quick And Easy Recipe For Mini Parmesan, Apple And Rosemary Scones

The concealed to these ultra-fluffy scones? Cream cheese. In a fresh of inspiration (I was reasoning astir rugelach astatine nan time), I replaced almost each nan food pinch it to awesome success. These scones are a deed pinch children, too: my three-year-old rather competently helped make them, from fetching rosemary from nan plot to stamping retired nan mixed and brushing connected nan ovum wash. A bully room activity for immoderate resident children, moreover if your canine turns up for nan food taxation astatine nan past stage.

Mini parmesan, pome and rosemary scones

Prep 15 min
Cook 15 min
Makes 30 mini scones

25g acold butter, cubed
100g acold full-fat pick cheese
100g parmesan, astir broken
300g plain flour, plus other for dusting
2 scant tsp baking powder
1 tsp oversea salt
2 rosemary sprigs, needles stripped and finely chopped
1 medium-sized apple, grated
1 egg
50ml milk

For nan topping
1 egg, beaten
50g parmesan, finely grated
A fewer mini rosemary sprigs (optional)

Tip retired connected to a floured surface, and past pat down until moreover and 2cm-thick (you tin usage a rolling pin, but this is specified a malleable mixed that conscionable your hands will activity fine). Use a mini information cutter to stamp retired circles, and transportation these to a lined baking sheet. Bring together nan offcuts, pat backmost down and trim retired much circles until you’ve utilized up each nan mixed (I sewage 30 mini scones successful total).

Brush each scone pinch beaten egg, apical pinch a scattering of parmesan and a mini sprig of rosemary, if you wish, past cook for 15 minutes, until aureate brownish and cooked through. (If you utilized a larger cutter, cheque connected nan scones aft 18 minutes.)

Transfer to a ligament rack to cool a little, past service lukewarm pinch acold salted butter, aliases astatine room somesthesia pinch food aliases much pick cheese.