Air Fryer Cheese Scones

How to bake delicious Cheese Scones in your air fryer in only 10 minutes, amazing recipe, easy step by step instructions, from start to finish.

Ingredients

165g / 6oz Self-raising flour
45g / 1½oz Cold Butter
70g / 2½oz Mature Cheddar Cheese (Grated)
70g / 70mls Milk (full or half fat)
4g / 1tsp Baking powder
3g / 1tsp Mustard powder
2g / ½tsp Turmeric
2g / ¼tsp Salt (Use only if you are using unsalted butter)
Extra cheese for topping, and milk for glazing
You’ll also need a piece of parchment/ greaseproof paper that fits the food basket of your air fryer.

Sift all of the dry ingredients to a large bowl.
Note: If you’re using plain or all-purpose flour, you need to add an extra 1tsp of baking powder to the recipe, making a total of 2tsp.
Add the cold butter to the bowl, and rub together until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
Fold in the grated cheese with your fingers, until it is evenly incorporated.
Add the milk and cut it in using an ordinary dinner knife.
Tip the contents of the bowl out onto your worktop.
Gently fold the mixture together into a dough by hand, taking care not to over handle the dough.
Handling the rolling pin very lightly, gently roll the dough out into a rectangle approximately 2.5cm / 1in thick.

Cut the dough into 4 scones with a 6cm / 2½inch scone cutter or knife.
Before going any further, preheat your air fryer to 180°C / 355°F for 1 minute, (Important safety note: do not add the parchment paper while pre-heating)
Now you can add the piece of parchment paper to the bottom of the food basket.
Place the scones on the parchment paper equally apart, (optional) add a little cheese underneath each scone.
Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk and add a little finely grated cheese on top too.
Get the food basket into the fryer.
Set temperature to 180°C / 355°F, cook for 10 minutes, check the progress after 7 minutes.
When the time is up, carefully remove from the fryer and allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Serve warm, with lashings of butter.
Enjoy.