These bourbon honey bacon biscuits combine bourbon honey glazed bacon with the perfect buttermilk biscuit!
These biscuits are the perfect way to make any morning special! The bourbon honey glazed bacon is incredible and will be your new favorite breakfast item!
Why you will love this recipe:
Biscuits are some of the best pastries in the world. Their fluffy, flakey, and buttery nature is a thing of pure beauty! This recipe takes my favorite buttermilk biscuit and transforms it into these biscuits packed with bacon, honey, and bourbon flavor! If you love bacon and like your biscuits on the sweet side, this recipe was made for you!
About this recipe:
- Taste - buttery, slightly sweet from the honey, and bacon.
- Texture - flakey style biscuit.
- Effort - medium/easy. Biscuits and glazed bacon are easy and quick to make; there are just more steps than your average biscuit because you have to make and glaze the bacon first.
- Time - about 45 minutes -1 hour from start to finish!
Key Ingredients:
Buttermilk: Buttermilk is also key to a good biscuit. Buttermilk contains acid, which, when combined with the baking powder, helps the dough to rise. Buttermilk also helps to keep the dough tender and soft.
Butter: Butter is the fat that provides richness and flavor to the biscuits. Using high-fat flavorful butter is key; my favorite is Kerry Gold. The butter flavor really shines through and is what gives these biscuits most of their taste, so if you were ever going to splurge on good butter, this is the time.
Honey: honey has more flavor depth than sugar's simple sweetness. Here honey works with the butter to provide a deep and slightly sweet biscuit and glazes and sweetens the bacon.
Bacon: I like to use thick-cut smoked bacon, but really any bacon you have on hand will work!
Bourbon: I used a good mellow bourbon, Woodford Reserve, but any premium bourbon will do!
Step-by-step instructions:
- Make the honey bourbon glaze
- Glaze the bacon strips on a lined baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and make the biscuits.
- Cut the butter into the flour.
- Add in the bacon, bacon grease, buttermilk and bourbon honey and mix until a dough forms.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly dusted surface.
- Roll and fold the dough.
- Cut out your biscuits and place them right next to each other on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes, then brush with more bourbon honey and bake for 8-10 minutes more.
Tips for success!!
- If your bourbon honey gets too thick, just heat it on the stove again until it loosens.
- Use very cold butter and buttermilk.
- You can also chill your hands to make sure that the dough stays cold.
- Freeze unbaked cut biscuits in a seeped zip lock and bake whenever you want biscuits! They keep unbaked in the freezer for 3 months!!
- Handle the dough as little as possible. This recipe calls for folding the dough multiple times, but you still want a springy and soft dough. Overhandled dough will result in tough and gummy biscuits.
- Place the biscuits right next to each other on the lined baking sheet. This will help them to rise.
- Serve with homemade bourbon honey butter from this recipe for a real treat.
FAQ's
You can freeze the unbaked biscuits in an air-tight container for up to three months. and the baked and glazed biscuits will last 2-3 days at room temp in an air-tight container.
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Bourbon Honey Bacon Biscuits
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 10-12 biscuits 1x
- Category: Biscuit
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Southern
Description
These bourbon honey bacon biscuits combine bourbon honey glazed bacon with the perfect buttermilk biscuit!
Ingredients
Bourbon honey:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup bourbon bourbon
Biscuits:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour + 1/4 cup for dusting
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon bacon grease
- 1 tablespoon bourbon honey
- 12 slices bacon
Instructions
Make the bourbon honey and glazed bacon:
- Heat the honey and bourbon in a saucepan until the bourbon has been incorporated and the honey has reached a syrup consistency. Do not boil.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment or foil.
- Line the bacon on the backing sheet and brush the tops with the bourbon honey. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned and crispy.
- Keep 2 tablespoons of the grease for the biscuits.
Make the biscuits:
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
- Cut the chilled butter into cubes and press it into the flour mixture until the butter is pea-sized.
- Break up the bacon into bits about 1/4 of an inch.
- Add the bacon, bacon grease, buttermilk, bourbon honey and stir until a loose dough forms.
- Turn the dough onto a floured work surface and knead until the dough all comes together. If the dough if very sticky and wet, dust with flour until it stops sitcking.
- Press or roll the dough into a 1/4 inch rectangle and fold the dough onto its self in thirds. Like you would fold a sheet of paper. Dust flour between the layers if your dough is wet. Press or roll the dough out to 1/4 inch again and repeat the fold. Press or roll out the dough out again to a 1/4 inch rectangle.
- Using a floured cutter cut out your biscuits and place them right next to each other on a lined baking sheet. Having all your biscuits touching will help them to rise.
- Freeze the biscuits on the baking sheet for 15 minutes.
- Bake for 15 minutes and then brush with bourbon honey and bake for 8-10 minutes more, or until they are browned and cooked through.
- Use the remaining glaze to brush the baked hot biscuits one more time.
Notes
- If your dough is very wet keep dusting with flour until it stops sticking to the work surface.
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