Southern Bacon Biscuits

This post is sponsored by  I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter®.  Southern Bacon Biscuits are tender biscuits with crispy crumbled bacon in every bite.

I was recently asked to try the new I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Deliciously Simple™ spread. This new spread has a creamy, buttery taste and is made with simple ingredients like non-fat yogurt and vegetable oil.  Sounds good, right?  I was glad to see that Deliciously Simple is made with ingredients I recognize and I was really excited to try it out!

I decided that I wanted to use Deliciously Simple™ on a breakfast dish.  We Southerners know how to make a killer breakfast.  (I'm actually a Jersey girl transplant, but we moved when I was in 5th grade, so in most cases I declare myself a southern girl.  Especially when it comes to cooking.)

When I think of good ol' down-home Southern breakfast food, biscuits are what come to mind.  Not just the old hockey puck kind of biscuit, though.  I'm talkin' about tender buttermilk biscuits.  I put a twist on my favorite recipe and came up with these soul-satisfying Bacon Biscuits.

Oh yeah, baby.  There's crispy bacon baked right into these guys.

An entire pound of bacon.

You read that right.  And I don't feel a bit guilty about it either.  Everything feels very zen about delicious little bits of bacon in every single bite.  I didn't name them Bacon Biscuits for nothing.

I put some salty pecorino romano cheese in them, too.  Because this girl loves her cheese.  I made the dough, mixed in the bacon and cheese, baked them up to golden perfection, then topped them with the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Deliciously Simple™ spread.

They were so unbelievably good.  I, along with my son and daughter, polished off a half dozen of them when they were right out of the oven.   Deliciously Simple™ had the perfect creamy texture for the hot flakey biscuits.  (If you know anything about biscuits, you know how frustrating it can be when your trying to spread on a topper and the biscuit just falls apart!).  The flavor was great (the same creamy taste you know and love) and it complimented the biscuits perfectly.

I can see I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Deliciously Simple™ being good for so many dishes, sweet and savory, like grilled cheese, garlic bread, waffles, dinner rolls and bagels.  I know my daughter will be happy with how easy it is to spread onto her favorite French Toast.  She's four and LOVES to help Mom in the kitchen.  With 100% Taste and 0% Artificial Preservatives, we give the new Deliciously Simple™ by ICBINB a thumbs up...especially spread onto these sinfully fabulous Southern Bacon Biscuits!

Southern Bacon Biscuits



Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 4 tsps baking powder
• 2 tsps sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup pecorino romano cheese, grated
• 1/2 cup I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Deliciously Simple™ spread
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 425°.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in your food processor.  Pulse a few times to mix completely.  Add the Deliciously Simple in teapoons to the flour mixture.  Pulse a few more times to incorporate.  It should look like coarse crumbs.
3. Turn the food processor on to the lowest setting and pour in the buttermilk while the machine is running, just until the dough comes together into a ball.  (You want to be very careful not to over-work the dough.)
4. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface.  Press it down with your hands just a bit, then dump the bacon and cheese on top of the dough.  Fold the dough over itself 4 or 5 times to incorporate the bacon and cheese, adding more flour as necessary.  (Again, don't over-work it.  Handle it as little as possible.)  
5. Gently press out the dough with your hands until roughly 1/2-inch thickness (err on the side of thicker, not thinner).  Cut the biscuits into 2-inch rounds.  (You should end up with around 10-12 biscuits, see Notes for biscuit cutting tips.)  Place the biscuits onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes or until the tops begin to turn golden.  Use a knife to spread a little bit of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® Deliciously Simple™ spread onto each biscuit as soon as they come out of the oven.

Notes

• The key to getting your biscuits to rise well is using something sharp to cut them out.  A kitchen glass dipped in flour works well.  Years ago, my grandfather gave me some old kitchen tools that he had kept since his childhood and among them was his mother's (my great-grandmother's) favorite biscuit cutter...an old tin can.  It's a bit rusty now, but I bet that in it's day it cut many a buttermilk biscuit for him and his 12 brothers and sisters! 
• Disclosure: This post was sponsored by  I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter® through their partnership with POPSUGAR. While I was compensated to write a post about I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter® Deliciously Simple™, all opinions are my own.