These buttermilk biscuits are incredibly flavorful, soft, and simple to make. They are also remarkably adaptable. Since the cheese provides the main flavor in these, you can pretty much use whatever type of cheese you choose; if you have a lot of something other than pepper Jack you’d like to use up, feel free to alter it up anyway you’d like.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 biscuits |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅓ cup cold butter
- ⅔ cup shredded pepper Jack cheese
- ⅔ cup finely diced ham
- 1 cup buttermilk, or more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and garlic powder in a bowl. Whisk to combine.
- Dice the cold butter up into chunks, and cut it into the dry mixture with your fingers, a fork, or a pastry cutter, until the mixture resembles coarse sand, and butter is well blended in. Stir in cheese and ham, gently stirring to evenly coat all the cheese and ham pieces with the flour mixture.
- Use a fork and stir in 1 cup buttermilk. If the mixture is still dry, add a little more liquid at a time until the dough just comes together (it should be a little bit sticky, but not “wet”).
- Shape dough into a ball by hand, handling the dough gently. Then pat the dough out on a lightly floured surface to 1/2- to 3/4-inch thickness. Use a small biscuit cutter to cut 12 to 15 biscuits out, and arrange them on a baking sheet with sides just barely touching.
- Bake in the preheated oven until just golden brown around the edges/tops/bottoms and cooked through in the center, 12 to 15 minutes.
- Cool briefly on the baking sheet before moving to a platter or cooling rack. Best served warm!
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 178 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 18 g |
| Cholesterol | 26 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 582 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Excellent. Tender as advertised. I freeze them and reheat as needed and they are still very tender – and delicious. I’m just about to make another double batch.