Bacon Cheddar Jalapeño Buttermilk Biscuits

Bacon Cheddar Jalapeño Buttermilk Biscuits.  Fluffy, flakey layered biscuits with bits of bacon, cheddar and jalapeño mixed in to create a beautiful combination of salty and spicy.  Serve warm with a little bit of butter spread for the ultimate comfort food.  This is the perfect side dish that will compliment any and all meals. Growing up, biscuits were not my thing.  It really wasn't until my college years that I really started enjoying a good biscuit and also really started to understand what a good biscuit needed.  Well, now I can definitely tell you a good biscuit needs to be soft, yet flakey and almost have a refreshing sense about it.   Biscuits are quickly becoming a favorite in our home.  I love using them in recipes and creating unique biscuit flavors (like this one).  There is just something so special and comforting about a buttermilk biscuit, am I right?

Ingredients:

• flour
• butter
• baking powder
• baking soda
• bacon
• jalapeño
• cheddar
• buttermilk

Kitchen Appliances:

• food processor
• baking sheet
• rolling pin
• basting brush

The Steps:

Cook the bacon until crisp.  Allow the bacon to completely cool before using it.  Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.  Add in the flour and cold cubed butter to the food processor.  Pulse until the butter is cut into pieces about the size of a corn kernel.  Remove the seeds from the jalapeños.  Add the jalapeños, bacon and cheddar cheese to the food processor.  Pulse two or three times until the bacon, jalapeño and cheddar is mixed in well.  Add in the buttermilk.  Mix until dough starts to form, but do not over mix, you want your dough to be a little crumby. Flour a flat surface.  Place the dough on the flours surface.  Roll out your dough in a rectangle shape about 1 inch thick.  Fold the dough into thirds and roll it out again until it is 1 inch thick.  Using a biscuit cutter, cut the biscuits and place them on the baking sheet.  Using a basting brush, brush extra buttermilk on top of each biscuit.  Bake for 18-20 minutes.  Serve warm with butter.

Why does the butter have to be cold when added?

When the cold butter melts in the oven, it creates steam.  When that steam is created within the biscuit, it creates those signature flakey layers that are so necessary for a good buttermilk biscuit.

What if I don't eat meat?  Can I take out the bacon?

Totally!  Nothing else needs to be changed if you are doing that!  Removing the bacon won't change the quality of your biscuit, it will just take away the bacon flavor.

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