8tablespoonsbuttercold + extra melted butter for biscuit tops
¾cup+ 2 tablespoons buttermilk
1tablespoonbaking powder
½teaspoonbaking soda
2tablespoonssugar
½cupdried apricotsdiced finely
6strips baconcooked and crumbled
1cupParmesanshredded
1teaspoongarlic powder
1teaspoonSalt
Instructions
Fry six strips of bacon until very crispy (you don’t want chewy bacon bits in your biscuits!). Place bacon on a paper towel lined plate, plot grease from bacon, and cool. Once cool, crumble bacon strips, throw away any chewy pieces, and set aside.
Measure out ½ cup of dried apricots and dice into very small pieces. Set aside. Then shred fresh Parmesan until you have one cup full. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and line or grease a baking sheet. Cut cold butter into tablespoon size chunks. Place cold butter chunks and flour in food processor and pulse together until it has a crumbly or mealy texture. If you don’t have a food processor you can use a pastry cutter or two knives to cut the butter into the flour.
Pour flour-butter mixture into a large mixing bowl and stir in the rest of the dry ingredients—baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, garlic powder, bacon, apricots, and Parmesan. Once the dry ingredients are incorporated add in the buttermilk. Mix in buttermilk until just combined—do not over mix.
Sprinkle a little flour on your work surface and tip dough out onto it. Press dough together into a rectangle. Use a rolling pin to roll dough into a thin sheet. Fold the right and left edges of the dough—meeting in the middle. Repeat two more times. This is called laminating and gives you those great layers that biscuits have.
If your biscuit dough has gotten warm at this point I recommend throwing it in the freezer for 10 minutes. Use your hands to flatten dough to a one-inch thickness. Use a 2 ½” round cookie cutter to cut out dough and place on a baking sheet. Brush tops of biscuits with melted butter and bake for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown on top. Cool for 5 minutes and eat! See notes for reheating biscuits.
Notes
How to Reheat your Biscuits: When reheating them do not put them in microwave unless you want soggy hockey pucks. To reheat put them back in the oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes and they’ll be perfect.