Cream scones

Classic cream scones are delightfully fluffy, not too sweet breakfast or tea time pastries that provide the perfect excuse to slather on clotted cream and jam.

Learn how to make delicious, soft, light, and tender scones with this easy tutorial. This scone recipe is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dessert!

These melt-in-your-mouth cream scones are incredible and incredibly easy to make. They're made with just six ingredients and can be on your breakfast table in under twenty minutes.

Imagine wandering into the kitchen on a chilly weekend morning, craving your favorite cream scones. You’re ready to bake and excited for something warm and sweet. You pull out your go-to recipe, gather your flour and sugar, then open the fridge only to gasp audibly. There’s no heavy cream! Breathe. Your scone dreams aren’t crushed; you don’t need to abandon your beloved recipe. There’s a simple substitution that will allow you to make delightful, ultra-tender scones without cream.

Cream Tea Scones Recipe

This easy scone recipe only requires 3 ingredients! Better still, these scones are so good that you will never need to make scones the hard way again!

A light and delicious sour cream scone

How to make clotted cream – it’s rich, thick, creamy, and perfect for spreading over scones, dolloping on desserts, and using for cream tea!

Proper British Scones (Mary Berry Recipe) • Semisweet Chocolate Chip Scones • Cinnamon Chip Scones • Caramel Apple Scones • Blueberry Scones • More ...

Adapted from Buckingham Palace. Enjoy British royalty's official English scones recipe, because your tea time deserves the very best scones of all. Serve with clotted cream and good jam. Ed. note: If the recipe temperatures and quantities seem a little odd, don't worry. It's because this recipe for English scones was converted precisely from European measurements and temperatures supplied by Buckingham Palace's pastry chef.