Place the flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Mix well.
Add your butter to the bowl and pinch and fold the butter into the dry ingredients.
In a separate medium bowl, add the eggs, vanilla essence, brown sugar and buttermilk into the bowl. Mix well using an electric hand mixer. If you do not have the machine use a whisk and mix the ingredients for about 10 minutes.
Place the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient and using a wooden spoon, mix well.
Once all the ingredients have been mixed well, refrigerate your dough for about 30 minutes. In the meantime preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius on bake.
Slightly flour a large baking tray and separate the dough into nine equal parts. Making sure that the nine parts are circular and flat as seen in the photo.
(optional) brush the top of the dough with a whisked egg, this gives the amasi scone a nice golden look.
Bake for 15 minutes or until the scones have been cooked through.