Bacon+Cheese Biscuits

Bacon+Cheese Biscuits

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of kosher salt
3/4 cups (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, diced
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 lb of bacon, cooked and chopped
some sliced olives for the face

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. If you haven’t already cooked your bacon, do it now. Chop it into tiny pieces, cook and drain. Set aside.

Place flour, baking powder and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. Turn it on low, and carefully add the diced butter until the mixture is crumbly, like small peas.

If you don’t have buttermilk, who does, then just substitute the milk+lemon juice. It works ok too. Combine the buttermilk and egg and beat lightly. Add to the flour mixture until moistened.

In a separate bowl, mix the cheese with a handful of flour for stickage purposes, then add the cheese to the dough, and your cooked bacon pieces – while still mixing on low. Don’t over mix!! Just until combined, then STOP.

Knead the dough out onto a floured surface, patting it out to about 1/2″ thick. Using a biscuit cutter, cut out circles – this will be the head of the piggie. Then I just take a small piece, shape it into a triangle, and tack it on for the ears.

Now for the eyes, just take a sliced olive, cut it into thirds, which will give you the two eyes and two nostrils. Simple.

Bake for 14 mins, depending on your oven.

My kids really love these bacon-y piggies. You don’t need to go to the trouble of making them into pigs, but it sure is cute.