Recipes Scones & Shortcake Recipes English Afternoon Tea Scones Back to Scones & Shortcake Recipes English Afternoon Tea Scones Total Time 40m Prep Time 25m Bake Time 15m Serves 12 Skill Level Easy 5 Reviews 4 star rating Share What could be more British than a classic afternoon tea and of course the star of the show, the mighty scone? Add a twist to your favourite bake, by infusing English Afternoon tea to your scones, then serve with your jam of choice and a large helping of clotted cream. Method Lightly grease two baking trays. Preheat the oven to 220°C gas (200°C fan / gas mark 7) Place the flour and baking powder into a bowl, add the butter and rub together using your fingertips until you reach a crumble, then add the sugar. In a saucepan, heat the milk (but do not boil) then add the teabags and remove from the heat. Allow the tea to steep for 5 minutes before squeezing and removing, then leave the milk to cool. Beat together the eggs and add to the cooled milk, then leave aside a couple of tablespoons of this mixture for glazing later on. Gradually incorporate the egg/milk mixture to the dry ingredients until its forms a soft dough. Turn the dough out on to a floured surface and roll out with a rolling pin until 1-2cm thick. Stamp out circles of dough using a fluted cutter. Place the scones on the baking tray and glaze the tops with the remaining egg/milk mixture using a pastry brush. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until golden. Serve the scones with jam, clotted cream and a cup of afternoon tea. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe British Bakes Reviews 01 December 2020 4 star rating It’s been a long time since I baked scones, so did this recipe, turned out pretty good, I did adapt this as I dislike tea of any sort.Think a little more sugar is required though. I also grated the butter into the flour and baking powder, saves a little time in mixing and you get a more even distribution of butter to four mix. All in all didn’t turn out too bad. 22 September 2020 5 star rating Love it, im British but i live in Brazil and i really miss english scones 09 May 2020 5 star rating super 21 November 2017 4 star rating Steeping the tea bags in the milk works surprisingly well with the scones - which doesn't last long! 10 September 2017 3 star rating Nice and fluffy but delicious Leave Your Thoughts Your Rating 5 stars4 stars3 stars2 stars1 star Email Your Review Ingredients Metric For the Scones 450g Allinson Self-Raising White Flour 2 tsp Baking Powder 75g Unsalted Butter (Room Temperature) 50g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar This is the highest quality caster sugar available and is a great natural alternative to refined caster sugar. It has a warm golden colour from its unrefined nature and is fine grained with a subtle buttery taste, making it perfect for deliciously light sponges, shortbread and macaroons. 2 Medium Eggs 225ml Whole Milk 4 Twining's English Afternoon Tea Bags For the Filling To Serve Strawberry Jam To Serve Clotted Cream Utensils 2 x Baking Trays Mixing Bowl Saucepan Fluted Cutter Rolling Pin