Well, it was just a matter of time.
What with our love of butter, bacon, and biscuits, there was bound to come a day when we had to combine them all into the ultimate breakfast experience: The Buttery Bacon Biscuit. I can’t take credit for this though; these biscuits were birthed one Saturday morning when I was all slack-jawed and drooling and somewhat comatose from the sleep deprivation that goes along with having a newborn in the house, and The Man came up with these. Oh, he’s more than just a pretty face, and I’m lucky. I stumbled into the breakfast room in a stupor, and there they were. Man. Bacon. Butter.
Breakfast, already cooked for me. By The Man. Who cooks. Did I mention that I’m lucky?
These biscuits were brilliant and delicious, I tell you. And in honor of Land-O-Lakes sponsoring a little ad content on this post, I decided it was the perfect time to feature some buttery goodness on the blog.
As if I needed a reason to add more butter…
Buttery Bacon Biscuits
Ingredients
4 slices thick-sliced bacon, cooked crispy (We like Wright’s bacon cooked in the oven at 350* for 25 minutes)*
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
6 tablespoons + 2 tablespoons cold butter, cut up
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 egg
Directions
Preheat oven to 400*. Finely chop your bacon; set aside. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl, and using a pastry cutter cut 6 tablespoons butter into flour mixture until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in bacon.
In a separate bowl, whisk together cream and egg; add to flour mixture and stir just until moistened.
Turn out dough onto a floured surface. Knead and fold dough until smooth and flatten to about 1/2″ thick. Using a round biscuit cutter cut the dough into circles.
Meanwhile, melt two tablespoons butter in a glass pie plate; arrange biscuits in the melted butter so that they’re touching each other.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden. Serve warm with additional butter. Honey is great on top of these also (shown). MMMmmmHmmmmm….
*Wright’s bacon has nothing to do with this blog post, isn’t sponsoring anything, and has no idea who we are. We just like Wright’s bacon. That’s all.
Oh yeah! I've got some mad cooking skills! Mmmmm. Those sound good right now!