Utterly Flaky Bacon, Cheddar & Jalapeño Biscuits

Recipe Snapshot

Servings

8

Total Time

50 mins

Course

breakfast

Ingredients

Starting with properly crisped bacon ensures you get smoky, salty bites throughout the dough without greasy pockets.

Step 1

Classic homemade buttermilk biscuits rely on cold butter and cold buttermilk.

Step 2

Those pea-sized butter pieces melt in the oven, releasing steam that creates dramatic layers.

Step 3

Be sure to let the bacon drain well before adding to remaining ingredients.

Step 4

If the dough looks a little shaggy and imperfect? You’re doing it right.

Step 5

Once it comes together, pour the dough out onto a floured surface.

Step 6

If the dough looks a little shaggy and imperfect? You’re doing it right.

Step 7

This is exactly how you get biscuits that rise tall and pull apart in tender sheets.

Step 8

Brush the tops of each biscuit with butter and honey.

Step 9

Bake in a preheated oven until they puff up.

Step 10

The biscuits will be light golden brown and utterly flaky.

Step 11

Enjoy!

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Ari

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