The Queen's royal pastry chefs share their scone recipe - and the order they assemble it

Royal pastry chefs place cream before jam

The Queen’s pastry chefs have shared their scone recipe ahead of what would have been garden party season at Buckingham Palace.

This week, the chefs shared their royal recipe for fruit scones on the official Royal Family Instagram, where they said they are “happy to share their recipe for fruit scones, which traditionally would be served at Buckingham Palace every summer.”

In addition to the recipe, the pastry chefs also shared a food-related fact about the Royal Family’s annual garden parties, revealing that each year more than 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cake are consumed.

While the pandemic has led to the cancellation of this year’s celebrations, the good news is the scone recipe is surprisingly simple to make at home, as it consists of just seven ingredients.

Ingredients

500g Plain flour

-28g Baking powder

-94g Butter

-86g Sugar

-2 Whole eggs

-140ml Buttermilk

-100g Sultanas - a type of raisin (Cover in hot water and leave to soak for 30 minutes)

According to the pastry chefs, the first step is to preheat the oven to 180C, before mixing the flour, baking powder, butter and sugar together in a bowl until a crumb is formed.

The next step is to whisk the eggs and buttermilk together in a separate bowl, before adding the mixture to the first bowl.

Once the ingredients have been added together, the recipe requires mixing the dough until it is smooth.

“(Optional) Add the sultanas, and mix until evenly distributed,” the recipe states.

The following step requires removing the dough from the bowl and flattening it before covering it and leaving it to rest for 30 minutes.

After the dough has finished resting, the recipe says to roll out the dough to a thickness of approximately 2.5cm and cut to the desired shape.

According to the recipe, the dough must then rest for an additional 20 minutes, before it is covered with an egg wash.

The scones should then be baked in the oven for 10-12 minutes until golden brown and left to cool before serving with jam and clotted cream.

The post has prompted numerous comments from people eager to try the recipe for themselves.

“Yum they look amazing,” one person commented, while another said: “Fit for a Queen. Thank you ever so much!”

As for what topping comes first, the video clearly shows the pastry chefs top the scones with cream then jam.