Week 5 - Cheese & Marmite Scones

I'm posting a day early this week as Wednesday is a busy day for me for 2 reasons. As much as I'd love to spend my days doing nothing but baking, I do actually have a day job! I'm part of the Douwe Egberts marketing team & I'm excited to say one of my new products is up for an award. So, tomorrow I'm off to the awards ceremony with everything crossed that we win, otherwise my boss says I'm being sent into exile! I'm also off to Havana Rakatan at Sadlers Wells to celebrate my friends birthday - Happy Birthday Gem x

Back to the baking & I said you'd either love or hate this weeks recipe, so hopefully you got the hint it was Marmite related! Sorry, I know it's not cake, but 4 weeks in I needed a break from the sweet stuff. Marmite is one of my most favourite things in the world, but if you're a hater, you can easily leave it out & you'll still have delicious cheese scones. I also like to add a dash of Worcester Sauce as it goes really well with the cheese.

225g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
50g butter chopped into rough chunks
100g grated cheese
150ml milk
Dash of Worcester Sauce
1 rounded tsp Marmite

1. Sift together the flour & baking powder, rub in the butter with your fingertips until you're left with something that looks like fine breadcrumbs, then stir in half the grated cheese

2. Put the milk into a jug, add a dash of Worcester Sauce & a spoonful of Marmite. You'll need to give it a good stir, but it dissolves into the milk eventually!

3. Add the milk to the dry ingredients a little at a time & stir well until you get a squidgy dough

4. Roll out the dough to about 1.5-2cm thick, then use a round cutter about 5cm across to cut out the scones. Place the disks onto a greased baking tray, brush the top with a little milk, then sprinkle over the rest of the cheese

5. Bake in the oven at 200c/GM6 for about 10 minutes until the cheese on the top just starts to brown

These are delicious if you serve them whilst they're still warm, cut in half & smothered in butter! They also freeze really well, just put them in the oven to warm them up again.

Back to the sweet stuff next week, something chocolaty I think? I'll also let you know how we got on at the awards!

Enjoy, Rebecca