My warm kitchen........

It's been a chilly week (or two, or three) here and so there's been a lot of home baking going on......

Evie and Brian made cheesey scones for morning tea..... oh my, they were SOOOOOO good! Infact they were such a favourite that I didn't even manage to get a photo of them before we had scoffed the lot!

They were Delia's - so-easy-that-your-9-year-old-can-make-them-by herself - wholewheat cheese crusted scones..... and incase you have a 9 year old handy who would like to have a go at making them (or maybe you don't but you want to make them anyway), here is the recipe:

75g wholewheat flour
75g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 pinches of cayenne pepper (Evie didn't put that in)
25g butter, at room temp
75g tasty cheddar, finely grated
1 large egg
2-3 tablespoons of milk

Sift the flours into a mixing bowl (making sure to add the bran back in that gets stuck in the sieve!) and add the baking powder, salt and the cayenne pepper (if using). Mix them together well.

Rub in the butter until the mixture is crumbly and then add most of the cheese reserving a little to put on top of the scones.

In a small bowl beat the egg together with 2 tablespoons of milk and add this to the mixing bowl to make a soft dough. If it is too dry add a touch more milk.

Now roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut out scones with a 6cm cutter (I have no idea what size we use - just whatever lands in our hand first I reckon!!)

Put scones on a baking sheet and brush the tops with milk, then sprinkle on the remaining cheese.

Bake on a highish shelf of the oven at 220degrees for 15-20 mins.

Serve warm, split open with lashings of butter..... Oh my, my mouth is watering just thinking about them......

We've also had some yummy scrummy double chocolate muffins to nosh on with coffee.....


recipe here

And lastly, but certainly not leastly, I made a batch of cinnamon scrolls.....


Recipe here - just zip down the page to the cinnamon scrolls recipe and you're good to go!

Now, even though the recipe says 'let cool and enjoy', I say 'get stuck in while they are still hot from the oven and scoff the lot'.... but obviously, follow your own leadings in this matter......