This recipe is adapted to be vegan and gluten free from a recipe that came in our monthly Mud + Bloom seasonal gardening + craft box. I strongly recommend the boxes, they are so beautifully put together.

I wasn’t sure if this would work because I haven’t had a load of luck with gluten free, vegan scones before, but it worked really well. I usually don’t like to use pre-blended flours and rarely use processed vegan cheese, but I choose the best there is when we do, and it is really the ‘worst’ our diet gets, so I am fine with it from time to time. We ate our scones with a quick broccoli and watercress soup I whipped up - really yummy!

Ingredients:

• 250g Dove’s Farm gluten free self-raising flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 100g Vegan Block (vegan butter - I can’t guarantee this would work with another kind of vegan butter)

• 130g grated Violife cheddar

• 100ml plant based milk (I use homemade almond milk)

• A big handful of chopped wild garlic

• A good grind of sea salt

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees C. Get out a baking tray and a 6cm round cutter in preparation.

2. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl, and rub through the butter with your fingers to create a crumble texture.

3. Stir in the cheddar and the chopped wild garlic.

4. Stir in the milk to form a dough. You may need to pull it together in the last instance with your hands.

5. Place some baking parchment on your work surface, put on the dough and press it out into a rectangle shape, to around 2cm thick.

6. Then use your cutter to cut out the scones. You will get about 10, with a little rough one at the end (as is common when making scones).

7. Carefully pull the baking paper with the scones on, onto the baking tray, arrange neatly and brush the tops with a little extra milk.

8. Bake in the oven for 12-16 minutes, until risen and cooked through (they don’t go super golden on top because the plant milk doesn’t have a load of fat in it like normal milk).

9. Enjoy the scones warm, either sliced with extra vegan butter, or they are nice just as they are.

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