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Cheese Scones

Tonight’s recipe is inspired by the cheddar scone recipe in The Colman’s Mustard Cookbook but as usual, I decided to change a few things here and there, just to make things a bit more interesting 🙂 Ingredients: 225g self-raising flour 1 heaped teaspoon English mustard (the Colman recipe said mustard powder but I had none in the house) Pinch of salt 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder (my scones came out a bit flat so I would add a full teaspoon next time) 40g butter 60g grated cheese (I used sage Derby, the Colman’s recipe asked for Cheddar) 2 medium eggs Milk for the glaze 150 ml cream (I used clotted cream for texture) Instructions: Mix the flour, mustard, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Using your hand, rub the butter into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add the cheese, one egg and the cream, to form a light dough (mine wasn’t coming together so I added a drop of warm water). On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough and cut …

Emma’s Halloween Buns

Halloween week, can you believe it? This autumn has flown in for me, I can’t believe I have less than 3 months left of this pregnancy! Well, it’s also half-term officially. Emma will  be going to playgroup until Wednesday, when she will have a Halloween party with her friends there, so she has been asking from today for some “scary” buns for the boys and girls. I am not very inventive when it comes to baking so I had a wee look around the Internet and found this Hearty Spiced Carrot Muffin recipe which sounded quite straight forward and mentioned a “toddler who devoured her muffin all Tasmanian-devil style”. I thought this would be spot on if we were to take them to the party on Wednesday and if we adapted them a little bit to look more…spooky. So here is a list of my ingredients. I forgot to include the olive oil (of which I added half a cup) in the picture: 2 cups of self-raising flour(approximately 250 grams) 2 teaspoons of baking powder …