Scones with Blue cheese and walnuts

I am having another go at the blog event called "Tea Time Treats", which is a monthly baking challenge event managed by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Kate from What Kate Baked. It is Karen from Lavender and Lovage, which is the host or perhaps I should prefer to "being mother" for the tea table for March month. The theme for March is SCONES either being sweet or savoury. You can read more here: http://www.lavenderandlovage.com/2012/03/the-new-tea-time-treats-challenge-for-march-scones-savoury-and-sweet.html

Looking into the many different types of possible scones in the cake book called "A piece of cake" by Leila Lindholm, I got so inspired, that I decided to make both a SWEET version in form of spicy scones with dried fruits as well as SAVOURY version. 


As the savoury version I had three different options in mind:

• Blue cheese and walnut
• Emmental cheese and red onion
• Olives and pine kernels

Being un-certained about this version to make, I placed the decision in your capable hands through a vote on my blog. And it turned out to be a relative close vote:

• Blue cheese and walnut = 5 votes
• Emmental cheese and red onion = 3 votes
• Olives and pine kernels = 3 votes

Thank you very much to those of you participating in this vote :-)

Below you can see, my modified version of scones with Blue cheese and walnuts.

Scones with Blue cheese and walnuts: - 12 pieces

• 375 g cake flour
• 75 g rye flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g sugar
• 125 g cold butter
• 1 egg
• 2 dl milk
• 100 g Blue cheese - in small pieces
• 100 g walnuts - roughly minced

1. Heat the oven (conventional) to 250'C.
2. Mix the flours, salt, baking powder and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
3. Cut the cold butter into small pieces.
4. Grind the butter pieces into the flour mix.
5. Add the milk and egg without kneading it a dough.
6. Add the Blue cheese and walnuts, again without kneading it too much.
7. Place the dough on a pieces of baking paper.
8. Flatten the dough into a height of 3 cm.
9. Use a glass to cut out scone pieces or place the dough into heart shape silicone form.
10. Bake the scone at 250'C for 10-15 minutes.