Easy Beer Biscuits (Drop Biscuit Style w/Optional Cheese)
Easy drop beer biscuits. One batch yields a dozen. You can add shredded cheese if desired or a bit more sugar than suggested for a sweeter version.
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Servings: 12 biscuits
Calories: 157kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon sugar optional, reduce or skip if you do not want sweet biscuits
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup cold butter cut in cubes*
- 1 cup beer such as American craft lager
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a food processor combine all the dry ingredients and pulse to combine.
- Add the cold, cubed stick of butter and pulse until the butter is broken down into small pieces and the mixture resembles cornmeal.
- Add the beer and pulse about ten times. Stop as soon as the mixture clumps and sticks to the side of the food processor bowl.
- Use a large cookie scoop or two spoons to drop beer biscuit mixture onto the parchment paper lined baking sheet. **
- Bake until the biscuits turn golden (about 15 minutes) in the lower half of the oven. ***
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Notes
*You can substitute shortening for butter.
**Each biscuit should work out to be about 3 tablespoon worth of mixture, total of 12 per batch.
***Depending on the calibration of your oven you could bake at 450 F.
Nutritional information is per biscuit, not using sugar.
Nutrition
Calories: 157kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 281mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g
