Sourdough Maple Bacon Biscuits
These sourdough maple bacon biscuits have flaky layers filled with a perfect blend of sweet and savory. They're so hard to resist! Every bite is full of crisp, salty bacon and sweet maple syrup.
Ingredients
- 1/2 LB. bacon cooked and chopped into small pieces
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 5 Tbsp cold stick butter
- 1/2 cup sourdough starter (fed or discard)
- 2/3 cup buttermilk (OR milk + 1 tsp apple cider vinegar)
- 3 Tbsp maple syrup
Instructions
Make Dough
- In a mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and bacon peices (that you’ve already fully cooked and chopped). Mix until combined.
- Grate butter or cut it into dry ingredient mixture with a fork. Mix butter peices to evenly distributed them throughout the dry ingredients.
- Add in sourdough starter, buttermilk (or milk + apple cider vinegar), and maple syrup. Mix until evenly combined and a dough forms.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Cut Biscuits
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
- Use hands to combine any loose dry ingredients from the bowl
- Fold dough into an half lengthwise and then in half once more to create layers. DO NOT KNEAD THE DOUGH.
- Use your hands to flatten the dough to make a 1-inch thick slab (any shape).
- Use a small biscuit cutter to cut out 5-6 biscuits using a straight up and down motion, don’t twist the cutter when cutting them out.
- Place each biscuit on a parchment lined baking sheet about 1-2 inches apart.
- With any excess dough, do not smush it together but instead cut the excess into 4 pieces, roll it into logs, and place around the outside of the biscuits (this helps biscuits rise upward while baking instead of out).
Bake Biscuits and Add Topping
- Place biscuits in the oven and bake for 14-15 minutes until golden brown.
- When biscuits finish baking, drizzle with a little extra maple syrup, and let cool on a wire rack. Enjoy!