Cheese Scones Recipe
joyfoodsunshine.com · 2025 · 8 Scones
Against 660 scone recipes
More butter than 80% of recipes and less sugar than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 660 scone recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 80% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 33%.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 20%, under a third as much.
- More leavening than 76% of recipes: 5.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.4%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder≈ 14 g
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 3 g
- ½ cup salted butter ((frozen))≈ 114 g
- ⅔ cup heavy cream≈ 159 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 cup cheddar cheese ((shredded))≈ 237 g
flour 250 gbatter 839 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 660 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter45% · 87th percentile · median 33%
- Liquid64% · 72nd percentile · median 52%
- Sugar5% · 13th percentile · median 20%
- Egg20% · 71st percentile · median 16%
- Leavening5.5% · 82nd percentile · median 4.4%
- Salt1.2% · 75th percentile · median 0.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 11 to 13 minutes
- median 16 minutes
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