Cheesy Vegan Savoury Pumpkin Scones

I used to love making scones with my Granny, and these Cheesy Vegan Savoury Pumpkin Scones are inspired by those afternoons I spent with her, learning all her tricks of how to make the lightest, fluffiest and most delicious scones around.

Granny's scones were legendary,

(a bit like quite a few of her recipes, that I have veganised for the blog!) and were always super light and fluffy. She claimed it was because she stirred them with the feather of an Angel's Wing.

And I believed her.

She confessed eventually that it was really because she had cold hands and worked the dough quickly.

 

I don't always have the requisite cold hands for mixing the dough, so instead use another trick I learned from her, use a butter knife to cut in the fat (in our case vegan butter).  You don't want the butter to melt before it hits the oven. So try and work in a cool room, and use either your fingertips, or a knife.

My other top tip, is to use fridge cold or even only just thawed from frozen pumpkin or squash. This keeps the mixture cold and the butter from melting. Now, you could use canned pumpkin here, but seeing as it's Hallowe'en as I'm writing this, why not use up some of the interiors of your Hallowe'en pumpkins! They're usually discarded, but are all edible, even though sometimes can be a little watery. I suggest oven roasting the flesh of any large pumpkins to concentrate the flavour, before pulping it and letting it get properly cold in the fridge.

Follow along with these instructions below to see how it should look:

Alternatively, if you have lovely sweet butternut or other squash you want to use, you can just steam or boil it. Any way works really!

Now, back in the day, my Granny's cheesy scones were stuffed full of parmesan and cheddar cheese, which obviously now I'm making them vegan we won't use. Instead for that savoury cheesy flavour, I've added in loads of nutritional yeast. It works a treat, especially combined with the pumpkin and some fresh (or dried) sage and thyme.

These yummy cheesy pumpkin scones are the perfect thing to serve up for a savoury alternative at afternoon tea, or are also delicious warmed through and served with some hearty lentil soup. So yummy split and toasted with some vegan butter slathered on top!

 

Now, the other thing we have to decide is how we pronounce scone.

I say it the correct way- Scone sounds like done, it does not sound like moan.

Obviously.

If you like the sound of this Cheesy Vegan Savoury Pumpkin Scones, you might also like some of these other tasty ideas

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