Blueberry Biscuits
These blueberry biscuits are wonderful danish-like treats that are not overly sweet but enough to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 660kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ½ cup butter , room temperature
- 1-¼ cup buttermilk (or 1 cup milk with 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar - see instructions)
- 1 cup blueberries frozen, removed from freezer right before adding
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoon heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest (or zest from one large lemon)
- ¼ cup lemon juice (or juice from one large lemon)
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon , ground
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- If not using buttermilk, pour 1 cup regular milk (preferrably whole, full-fat milk) into measuring cup and add apple cider vinegar (approximately 1 Tablespoon) and let sit until ready to add to mixture.
- Add softened butter to a large bowl cut into small pieces. Add flour, baking powder, salt and sugar and combine with hands until fairly well incorporated (there will be pea-sized pieces of butter).
- Add buttermilk to flour mixture and mix with spoon until incorporated.
- Take blueberries from freezer and measure out 1 cup full. Add to flour mixture and mix gently with spoon or hands just until blueberries are scattered about.
- Dump flour mixture onto floured countertop space. Cover with a bit of flour on all sides, but don't over flour. (You want it easy to handle but you don't want to dry it up with too much flour.)
- Roll out gently with rolling pin to about 1 inch thick, taking care not to mash the blueberries.
- With a 3-inch round biscuit cutter (or I use a cup or glass), cut out the biscuits, trying not to split the blueberries in the process.
- Lightly oil a cast iron skillet.
- Place each biscuit in the prepared cast iron skillet, scrunching up and making room so that 10 biscuits will fit as you add more.
- Place in the oven. Cook for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- While cooking, prepare the glaze.
- Add all glaze ingredients to a medium-sized bowl and blend with a small whisk until smooth.
- When biscuits are done, let sit for 5 minutes after removing from the oven.
- Add small spoonfuls of glaze to the top of the biscuits (about 5-6). Serve and add more glaze to individual portions.
Nutrition
Calories: 660kcal | Carbohydrates: 92g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 80mg | Sodium: 1186mg | Potassium: 212mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 963IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 284mg | Iron: 3mg