Air Fryer Cheese Scones is a quick and easy recipe for four delicious light and fluffy savoury scones packed full of cheese and baked in your air fryer.
Why make Air Fryer Cheese Scones?
Cheese Scones are a delicious quick bread and ideal for a savoury snack. And making cheese scones in your air fryer is really convenient and ideal for small quantities. Scones bake best in high heat and the circulating heat in the air fryer helps to ensure they bake evenly all over.
Compared to your oven, an air fryer will heat up quickly due to the smaller size and the fan. And cooking in an air fryer is about half the cost of cooking in a standard oven.
What ingredients do I need for Air Fryer Cheese Scones?
The ingredients are things that you will probably already have in your pantry or fridge. Here is what you will need:
- self-raising flour
- baking powder
- butter
- ground cayenne pepper (optional)
- mustard powder (optional)
- cheese
- milk
Easy Air Fryer Cheese Scones
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 11 minutes
- Total Time: 16 minutes
- Yield: 4
- Category: afternoon tea, Baking, Breakfast, Snack
- Cuisine: British, Scottish Servings
Ingredients
- 150 g (1 ¼ cups) self-raising flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 40 g (3 tbsp) butter
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- ¼ tsp mustard powder
- 50 g (½ cups) cheddar cheese finely grated
- 20 g (2 tbsp) cheddar cheese coarsely grated
- 80 ml (⅓ cups) milk
Instructions
- Weigh 150 g (1 ¼ cups) self-raising flour into a medium bowl, add ½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp cayenne pepper and ¼ tsp mustard powder.
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Add 40 g (3 tbsp) butter cut into small cubes.
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Rub the butter through the flour with gentle movements until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. OR use a food processor to combine the ingredients.
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Add 50 g (½ cup) finely grated cheese to the flour mixture in the bowl and stir through. OR add to the food processor and pulse just enough to combine.
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Preheat the air fryer if required.
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Add 80 ml (⅓ cup) milk to the dry mixture in the bowl. You may not need all the milk or might need a little more.
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Bring the mixture together with a blunt knife and once a soft dough begins to form use your hands to form it into a ball. Dust the work surface with a little extra flour and pat out the dough into a flat disk about 2 cm deep.
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Use a plain 6 cm (2 ½ in) cutter to cut out four scones. Pat the dough back together gently so you can use all the dough. You may have a little dough left over but not enough for another full scone.
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Put a piece of baking parchment in the base of your air fryer and place four scones, spread apart, onto the baking parchment.
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Use a pastry brush to brush the tops of the scones with a little extra milk.
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Sprinkle the 20 g (2 tbsp) coarsely grated cheese over the scones.
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Close the air fryer and set to 185C (365F). Bake the scones for 11 minutes.
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Remove from the air fryer and cool on a cooling rack.
- Serve the scones with butter.
Notes
Do not put the baking parchment into the air fryer when preheating your air fryer. The paper will rise up with the air circulation and burn on the heating element. Once the air fryer is preheated it is safe to put in the parchment and place the scones on top. The weight of the scones will hold down the paper and it is perfectly safe.
