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Five Ingredient, 30 Minute Jalapeño Cheddar Biscuits

By: Nicole 16 Comments
Posted: 08/27/14 Updated: 04/13/20

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Biscuits are to me, what liquor is to a fresh 21-year-old –I know no limits, eat entirely too many and end up with a nasty biscuit-induced hangover afterwards.

I can’t help it. The buttery, flaky bites of heaven get me every.single.time. Given the difficult decision between a biscuit and a buttery roll, nine times out of ten, I’ll choose the biscuit. Simply irresistible.

5 Ingredient Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits

My biscuit love affair began as a child when I tried frozen biscuits at a friend’s house for the first time – they were single-handedly one of the most delicious foods I’d ever tasted. They weren’t anything fancy or homemade, I mean, they were frozen after all, but they were everything a perfect biscuit should be – light as air, flaky, buttery and completely addictive all at the same time. Every day after school, we’d go to her house, giddily pull out the biscuits from the freezer, bake wayyyy too many, and then smother them with spreadable butter for the perfect and ever-so-healthy after school snack.

Since then I’ve consumed and baked biscuits of all varieties from buttermilk to cream; fluffy to crispy; light to dense; and I’ve come to the conclusion that there is just no such thing as a bad biscuit. There’s just not.

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Hands down my favorite combination for a biscuit is an even proportion of butter (for flavor) to shortening (for lightness) and heavy cream (for obvious reasons) as the liquid. While of course, not the most waist-friendly, for me, this yields the absolute perfect biscuit.

If you stopped here and read the recipe, you’d immediately call me a hypocrite because this recipe calls for neither shortening nor heavy cream, BUT hear me out before you call my bluff. In this particular recipe, I wanted to make biscuit making as approachable and simple as possible by using as few ingredients as possible. Butter is the secret flavor weapon in all biscuits, so obviously that was something I couldn’t leave out. Whole milk instead of cream lighten the biscuits up just a touch (fat-wise) and shredded jalapeno cheddar cheese ads both flavor and an element of excitement to an otherwise mundane biscuit recipe.

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In all my biscuit making endeavours, I’ve found two tips to yield the most delicious biscuits:

1. Keep all the ingredients cold. Keeping the ingredients cold (the butter, the milk, the cheese) ensures a super light flaky biscuit. What happens when biscuits cook is the little particles of butter melt and expand creating that light and flaky biscuit texture we all love. If the butter is too warm, that step won’t happen and you’ll be left with sad, flat biscuits — No bueno.

2. Work VERY quickly. The reasoning is basically the same as above, if you mess with the dough too much, the butter will consequently melt and the dough will become too tough to eat.

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So here’s how I very simply made them: Flour, salt and baking powder are whisked together. Then the cheese and (frozen) butter is mixed in. Lastly, the milk is poured in. At this point, we want to work quickly. Stir the mixture just until everything is almost combined, and then dump it out onto a lightly floured surface. Gently knead the dough once or twice until it comes together and then gently pat it into a 1/2 inch thickness. These particular biscuits were miniature (for a recipe coming up!), so I used a 1/4 cup measure to cut the biscuits, but you can make them whatever size you want. For me, this made about 18 one inch biscuits.

Next up, they’re brushed with a little bit more whole milk, sprinkled with extra jalapeno cheddar cheese and popped into a 425 degree oven until they’re golden brown, risen and perfume your entire house.

Five Ingredient, 30 Minute Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits

Now THOSE are some biscuits, if I do say so myself… They’re perfect straight out of the oven slathered with butter, but stayed tuned to see what I do with them!

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Five Ingredient Jalapeño Cheddar Biscuits

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes

Total Time: 28 minutes

Yield: 18-20

Serving Size: 1 biscuit

These five ingredient jalapeño cheddar biscuits are light, flakey and utterly delicious!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoons frozen, shredded butter
  • 1 cup whole milk, plus more for brushing
  • 1 ½ cups shredded jalapeno cheddar cheese

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  2. Whisk flour, baking power and salt together. Mix in 1 cup shredded cheese until combined. Quickly mix in frozen butter.
  3. Pour in milk and mix just until combine, it’s ok if doesn’t come completely together.
  4. Dump mixture out onto a lightly floured board. Knead once or twice until the dough comes together.
  5. Using hands, quickly press dough into a rectangle, ½ inch thick.
  6. Make biscuits, pressing down and then pressing up quickly. (Do not twist.)
  7. Use scraps to make more biscuits until none is left.
  8. Line on a baking sheet lined with a silt pad.
  9. Brush milk on top of biscuits and then sprinkle evenly with remaining cheese.
  10. Bake until golden brown and cooked through, about 15-18 minutes.
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  1. Ashley says

    Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:10 pm

    My mom used to make those canned biscuits all the time as a kid – I would look forward to them all week!! haha Now I do prefer to make my own though 🙂 These look amazing – and I mean with jalapeno cheddar you just can’t go wrong!

    Reply
  2. Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says

    Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:54 pm

    We didn’t grow up eating biscuits. It just wasn’t a thing in Canada…weird right? How-ev-er, my American hubby? He LOVES them and always wants me to make ’em. So. these. Pinned!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:25 am

      Waaaaaaa???? That’s so weird! I thought biscuits were everywhere. Lol. Dumb of me??

      Thanks chic!

      Reply
  3. Melanie @ Carmel Moments says

    Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:19 pm

    Perfect use for the jalapenos in the garden. Looks so tender and flaky. Mmmm….
    Pinned!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:20 am

      Definitely Melanie!! Thank you!

      Reply
  4. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

    Posted on 8/29/14 at 2:42 am

    These biscuits look delicious! Love how simple and quick the recipe is I need to whip up a batch pronto as I think they will be delicious with a good cheese, dip and glass of red wine.

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:18 am

      Absolutely!! That all sounds amazing! Thanks Thalia!

      Reply
  5. Christin@SpicySouthernKitchen says

    Posted on 8/30/14 at 1:26 am

    I need these biscuits! They look perfect and I love that you spiced them up with some jalapenos. Pinning!

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:15 am

      Definitely have a little kick to them! A good one tough! Thanks Christin!

      Reply
  6. Jess @ On Sugar Mountain says

    Posted on 8/30/14 at 8:36 pm

    Quick, delicious biscuits that only need five ingredients?! Count me in! I’ll be making these to go alongside soups all Autumn long! 😀

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:14 am

      Ooooo they’d be PERFECT with soups this fall!

      Reply
  7. Amy L Watkins says

    Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:13 pm

    I have some jalapeno olive oil. Could I substitute some of the butter for olive oil in this recipe?

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      Posted on 7/19/21 at 12:46 pm

      You could add a little bit in for flavor, but to get tall flaky biscuits, you need cold fat so I wouldn’t omit too much butter. Good luck!

      Reply

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