This is a small batch recipe for biscuits with cream cheese in the dough. Inspired by a recipe from Cook's Country Magazine, I made a scaled down and slightly different version. It makes 6 biscuits. These are so good. They remind me of the biscuits we used to get at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
KFC Biscuit Memories!
Until I tried a KFC biscuit I thought I didn't like biscuits. Theirs were so different from the canned kind my mother served. Like the Kentucky Fried Chicken biscuits, these are big and fluffy. They have a strong flavor of buttermilk and cream cheese.
Don't Overmix the Dough
It's important not to overmix the dough. Yet at the same time, you want everything to be evenly blended. So start by mixing the dry ingredients thoroughly. Gluten starts to strengthen once you add moisture. So mix the dry ingredients evenly, coat with the fat (butter and cream cheese) then add the milk. Stir to make a soft and very bumpy dough. If the cream cheese isn't fully blended in, you'll get little dots of cream cheese in the baked biscuits. I've found that to be a good thing!
White Lily
Here's the recipe, and I've also put it in the recipe card (finally) so you can pin it. One thing to know is that if you have White Lily all-purpose, you can use 190 grams of that rather than 95 each of all-purpose and cake. The mix of the two flours is just supposed to mimic a softer flour with less protein. White Lily gives you that automatically.
Small Batch Cream Cheese Biscuits
¾ cup all-purpose flour (95 grams)
¾ cup cake flour (95 grams)
2 teaspoons sugar (8 grams)
1/ ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
⅜ teaspoon baking soda
2 ounces cold cream cheese (cut into cubes) (56 grams)
2 tablespoons cold butter (cut into cubes) (28 grams)
½ cup plus 1 tablespoon buttermilk (128 grams)
Butter for topping the biscuits
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with non-stick foil or parchment paper.
Mix the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl. Add cream cheese and butter. Work the fat into the flour with your fingers until you get a crumbly mixture. Add the buttermilk and stir with a spoon until the mixture comes together.
Turn the dough out onto a floured board and push it all together to make a 4x6 inch rectangle. Cut into 6 squares and put biscuits on baking sheet. Bake on center rack for 12 to 15 minutes or until they have puffed and are golden brown. As soon as they come out of the oven, brush the tops with butter. As delicious as these biscuits were with the cream cheese, they really did benefit from the extra finish of butter on the top.
Makes 6
Recipe
Small Batch Cream Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients
- ¾ cup flour (95 grams)
- ¾ cups cake flour (95 grams)
- 2 teaspoons sugar (8 grams)
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅜ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 ounces cold cream cheese cut into cubes (56 grams)
- 2 tablespoons cold butter cut into cubes (28 grams)
- ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon buttermilk (128 grams)
- Butter for topping the biscuits
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with non-stick foil or parchment paper.
- Mix the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in large bowl. Add cream cheese and butter and work the fat into the flour with your fingers until you get a crumbly mixture. Add the buttermilk and stir with a spoon until mixture comes together.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured board and push it all together to make a 4x6 inch rectangle. Cut into 6 squares and put biscuits on baking sheet. Bake on center rack for 12 to 15 minutes or until they have puffed and are golden brown. As soon as they come out of the oven, brush the tops with butter. As delicious as these biscuits were with the cream cheese, they really did benefit from the extra finish of butter on the top.
- Makes 6
Anna says
Okay, it is now easily pinnable. Thanks for pointing it out. These biscuits are really good.
boo says
How the heck do you Pin this recipe for later use ?? They look so good. : c
Anna says
Hi Ann,
They probably made the biscuits with self-rising flour which would eliminate the need for baking powder and salt.
Ann Van says
am I correct that some biscuits I enjoyed in San Francisco about 20 years ago consisted ONLY of three ingredients
cream cheese
flour
butter
Christine (Cook the Story) says
I'm always on the lookout for a good biscuit recipe but somehow I've never made any with cream cheese in the dough. It must add a nice tang and extra richness. I'll try it soon!
Gloria says
I like almost anything with cream cheese-especially dough! These look great....hope Atlanta is not too hot!
Katrina says
Ooh, I love KFC's biscuits. (about the only thing there I actually like.) 😉
Krista says
oh yum!
CindyD says
We were just in Atlanta last month! - we spent five hours at the aquarium but didn't see the dolphin show.
Carol says
Ohh...I am making these this weekend. I usually make biscuits once a week using butter and sour milk. They are so good, but these sound good to.
Sue says
I want to try these someday! They sound good!
Have a great time in Atlanta!!
Louise says
I don't make biscuits often enough.
@Lisa, I actually have other hobbies so I don't bake all day, every day. 🙂
Anna, have a great time in Atlanta. We expect a trip report.
Lisa Ernst says
I've never had cream cheese biscuits, but the idea is intriguing. Another thing on my list to try...if only I baked every day like you. 🙂 Have fun in Atlanta!