March 23, 2012

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 Lovagewhich 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.





2 comments:

  1. My TWO favourite ingredients, walnuts and blue cheese, these scones have my name all over them! FAB entry thanks, LOVE that you made TWO tea time treats this month!
    Karen

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  2. Dear Karen,

    great to hear, that walnuts and blue cheese also is some of your favourites. It is wonderful taste combination with a strong dominance of blue cheese, so you have be a fan of blue cheese :-)

    Kirsten

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