Hot Honey Cornmeal Biscuits
Hot honey cornmeal biscuits bake up soft, golden, and tender with the subtle texture of cornmeal and a sweet-spicy edge from hot honey. They’re simple buttermilk biscuits with a little extra personality.
Servings: 10 biscuits
Equipment
- 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter
- food processor optional
Ingredients
biscuits
- 3/4 cup yellow cornmeal (you can also use white cornmeal)
- 1/4 cup masa harina
- 3/4 cup buttermilk, shake before measuring
- 1/4 cup hot honey, or make your own hot honey, recipe here
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 12 Tbsp cold unsalted butter cut in pieces
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450F
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk the cornmeal, masa harina, buttermilk and hot honey together in a bowl and set aside.
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the bowl of a processor and pulse to combine.
- Add in the cold butter pieces and pulse until the butter is broken up into small pieces and mixture resembles a coarse meal. About 10-15 pulses.
- Add the buttermilk/cornmeal mixture to the machine.
- Pulse/process the mixture just enough to bring the dough together into large clumps. Add a little more buttermilk if the dough seems too dry.
- Turn out onto a floured (or cornmealed) surface and bring together into one lump. Add in a little extra cornmeal if it’s too wet.
- Pat or roll dough into a 9" round, about 1 1/2 inches thick. Cut out biscuits with a 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter. Reforming the dough as necessary. I got 7 biscuits on my first roll, and 3 on the next.
- Bake for 5 minutes, until they just start to rise, and then turn down the heat to 400F, and bake for another 15-17 minutes, until golden. Check them on the early side, your baking time may vary.
- Cool on a rack. Or enjoy piping hot. Your call.
Notes
Masa harina is finely ground corn flour made from corn that’s been treated with lime, the same base used for corn tortillas. It gives these biscuits a deeper corn flavor and a softer, more tender texture than cornmeal alone.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 biscuit · Calories: 306 kcal · Carbohydrates: 38 g · Protein: 5 g · Fat: 15 g · Saturated Fat: 9 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 38 mg · Sodium: 311 mg · Potassium: 227 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 8 g · Vitamin A: 456 IU · Vitamin C: 0.04 mg · Calcium: 86 mg · Iron: 2 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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