Bacon, Onion and Cheddar Scones

Slightly adapted from ‘The Pastry Queen’, this recipe makes the ultimate cheese scone; served warm with gently melting salted butter, this is the most satisfying savoury tea.

Slightly adapted from ‘The Pastry Queen’, this recipe makes the ultimate cheese scone; served warm with gently melting salted butter, this is the most satisfying savoury tea.

AKA American buttermilk pancakes with banana slices in them… drowned in maple syrup. Oh, yes please!
My Mum and MIL dined on these in Hong Kong when I was a toddler, the memory remained and the recipe, whilst it has morphed with input from both Mum and me over the years (decades actually, eek!) is still as sigh-inducing as always. I often wonder what I was eating whilst they stuffed banana hotcakes down their throats. Probably best not to know, really. It would only be upsetting.

Chocolatey, moist, the most tender of tender crumb, rich, chocolate buttercream filling; the kind of cake you think about longingly at 9.30 in the evening. This is not a brown cake wishing it was a chocolate cake – this IS a chocolate cake, but not so dark and dense that it strays into dessert territory. It’s from The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook.
This was the recipe that I chose to make for Tim’s birthday. His 69th birthday – but we’ll get to that in a minute.
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