Cheddar and Bleu Cheese Drop Biscuits
From crabhappychick 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 12
These are SO rich and SO wonderful! Wonderful with just about everything. Make extra!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour shopping list
- 2 tablespoons sugar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon baking powder shopping list
- 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut into 1/2" pieces shopping list
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese, packed, chilled shopping list
- 1/2 cup bleu cheese, crumbled, chilled shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk, chilled shopping list
- 1 large egg shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 400, positioning one rack in bottom third and one rack in top third of oven.
- Butter and flour 2 large baking sheets.
- Whisk first 5 ingredients in large bowl to blend well. Add butter and cut in with pastry cutter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add both cheeses, continuing to use pastry cutter to blend.
- Blend buttermilk and egg in small bowl. Add to flour mixture, stirring until dough is evenly moistened.
- Using 1/3 cup dough for each biscuit, drop 6 mounds onto each prepared sheet, spacing 2-3" apart. Bake biscuits 10 minutes. Reverse positions of sheets. Bake biscuits until golden brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 10 minutes longer. Serve warm.
- NOTE: You really don't need butter with these, they are so rich. But what the heck...butter makes EVERYTHING better!
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another great one from you keep going
minitindel
in THE HEART OF THE WINE COUNTRY loved it
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I can see where these would be good, the combination of cheeses alone is decadent. Great post. You've got my 5.
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These look fantastic!
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