This Week's Bread: Popeyes Biscuits

Today on Jenn Can't Math - I needed to make 1 biscut for 5 days. I also needed to make 4 biscuts for the rest of this week. How many biscuits is that kids? That's right. FOURTEEN.

So I made fourteen biscuits when I only needed 9. On top of that, I nearly set fire to my stove. Why? Because I put a plastic tupperware bowl on my stove. Also, these are my second run of biscuits cause the the original recipe was BAD BAD BAD.

BUT THESE BISCUITS. THESE BISCUITS ARE WORTH THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS. AND I HAVE FOURTEEN OF THEM.

They don't look like proper biscuits, mainly because I try to use every scrap of dough in exact measurements to get the nutritional info right (diabetes sucks, all), so they tend to be square instead of round, and in this case..."exploded looking."

But they are TASTY. They are EXACTLY like Popeye's biscuits which I think are the best fast food biscuits on the planet.

# Popeyes Biscuits

Key to My Lime
6.0 biscuits

0.5 cup unsalted butter (cold)
2.0 cups all purpose flour
1.0 tbsp sugar
1.5 tsp fine sea salt
1.5 tsp baking powder
0.5 cup buttermilk
0.25 cup whole milk
2.0 tbsp melted butter
0.5 tsp baking soda

1 - Preheat the oven to 400 F.
2 - Use cooking spray to lightly grease the surface of a large, rimmed baking sheet.
3 - Cut the butter into small pieces (about 1/4” in size), then place them into a bowl and place back in the fridge. (You want the butter to be COLD when cutting it into the flour so it doesn't melt.)
4 - To a medium mixing bowl, add the all-purpose flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Use a whisk to mix the ingredients together.
5 - Next, add the cold butter pieces to the mixing bowl. Cut in using a pastry cutter (or 2 knives). Continue to cut the butter in until the largest pieces of butter are pea-sized and the dough looks slightly crumbly.
6 - Pour the buttermilk and milk into the flour mixture, then use a rubber spatula to mix the milk and flour together until just combined, making sure to scrape down the sides as needed.
7 - Gather the sticky and very crumbly dough into your hands and form a ball. Once dough is all together and in a ball, stretch the dough then fold over. Stretch and fold the dough about 3-4 times in both directions.
8 - Dust the counter top with flour and roll out the dough between 1/4” - 1/2” thick. Cut the dough into 3” rounds using a biscuit cutter or glass, then place the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Gather up the leftover dough and form into a ball then roll out again and cut into biscuits (only roll the leftover dough out 2 more times).
9 - Bake the biscuits in the preheated oven for 13-15 minutes, or until the tops are a light golden brown.
10 - Remove them from the oven, then brush the tops with melted butter and serve hot.

Yields 6 biscuits at ~37.5 carbs per biscuit
Calories 342
Total Fat 18g
Total Carbohydrates 35g
Protien 5g

Normally yields 12 biscuits

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