This weekend we had a few friends over to celebrate Graham’s birthday, which was a lot of fun. For the celebration, I ended up making some old favorites from the blog including corn and manchego cheese empanadas and black bean soft tacos. I also made carrot cake cupcakes loaded with cream cheese frosting from this recipe. We had a great time at the party and ate a ton of food, but of course we had some random leftovers.
Since I didn’t think that Graham and I could (or should) go through a big tub of sour cream and a bunch of cheddar cheese before they went bad, I decided the best thing to do was to bake with it. After a quick web search, I found a great looking recipe for sour cream and cheddar biscuits. We both love fresh biscuits and these fluffy and cheesy biscuits are no exception. Aside from the taste, one of the best parts of this recipe is that you can freeze the biscuit dough and bake it up later—a nice way to avoid having to eat all of that cheese and sour cream in the next few days.
Sour Cream and Cheddar Biscuits
Adapted from Gourmet via Smitten Kitchen
To cut out the biscuits, I ended up using the mouth of an old jam jar. Once I had cut out the dough, I baked up half of the biscuits and put the other half in the freezer. I plan to add a few more minutes to the baking time when I get around to baking the frozen biscuit dough.
- 1½ cups of flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
- 1½ cups or ¼ lb of sharp cheddar cheese (I also added a little leftover manchego into the mix)
- 1 cup of sour cream
Preheat the oven to 425°. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Once combined, cut in the butter with a pastry cutter until it looks like a course meal. Stir in the cheese and sour cream until it forms a dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead a few times. Pat the dough out until it is about ½ inch thick. Cut out several rounds using a biscuit cutter or the mouth of a jar dipped in a little flour (the jar I used made nine biscuit rounds). Bake the biscuits for 15-17 minutes, or until golden.
Tasty Easy Healthy Green Recipe Ratings:
| Recipe Report Card | Notes About Recipe Ratings |
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Tasty Rating Four Chefs (Delicious!) |
These biscuits are wonderful when they are still warm from the oven. |
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Easy Rating
Four Easy Chairs (“ABC, Easy as 123…”!) |
When it comes to baking, these biscuits came together really quickly. |
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Healthy Rating
Two Apples (Surgeon General’s Warning!) |
While I did use light sour cream, these biscuits are by no means healthy. |
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Green Rating
Three Leaves (Average Environmental Friendliness) |
A few organic ingredients, but several ingredients were conventional. |
These biscuits are tantalizingly tempting!
Happy Monday!
Angie
These look delicious. I tried to make biscuits the other day, not so good. I will have to try your recipe, mine looked nothing like yours. Thanks and have a wonderful day.
Sally, these biscuits sure look so flavorful with cheddar. Can you believe that I still yet to try to make biscuit?
Hope you have a wonderful week ahead
what a great way to use up sour cream! i can’t wait to try these!
I’m left with that problem too whenever I have recipes that call for sour cream. You are so resourceful! You found a recipe that basically cleans up the entire tub of sour cream and looks amazing! I love recipes from Smitten Kitchen.
I hoestly can’t wait to make these. East homemade breads are the best! And this is so full of hearty flavor :), Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
Happy belated birthday to Graham! Looks like he had a great birthday dinner! Love the menu! Homemade biscuits are such a treat in this house. I don’t do them much, but when I do, it’s hard for the two of us to not eat through the whole batch in one sitting.
Your recipe is very, very tempting and one I know we’ll love. A great use of leftover sour cream!
This is a great way to use the sour cream and cheese that was left over! We should try as much as possible not to throw food. Happy birthday to your love, I am sure you had a lovely time with your friends!
The colors and textures in your photos make it look so tempting.
Sounds like a delicious party!
I actually just bought some cheddar cheese that I’m not going to end up using for the original recipe i bought it for…so this is pretty much perfect timing. Those biscuits sound amazing!
Ah, cheddar can do no wrong in biscuits. These sound delicious.
You’re making my mouth water! These biscuits look delicious, and I can only imagine eating them straight out of the oven.
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