Cheese Biscuits

In a continuing celebration of Joey Roo's birthday, this week I'm sharing the recipe for Cheese Biscuits. As you may recall, we had a birthday dinner of crock pot meatloaf, beets with goat cheese, and cheese biscuits. With this recipe, in addition to the past two blog entries, you can now replicate the entire meal! Least you think I'm dragging this event out - I must remind you of the "Birthday Period Rule" - this Rule dictates that you celebrate your birthday from the first national holiday before your birthday, to the next national holiday after your birthday. So Joey's "Birthday Period" is from Independence Day through Labor Day (oh, the same as mine.)

I used a recipe called "Quick and Easy Cheese Bread" - and modified it as I felt appropriate; I also turned it into biscuits, as opposed to a loaf of bread.

Here are the simple ingredients you'll need:

1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/8 cup white sugar

1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

2 cups shredded sharp (or extra sharp) cheddar cheese

1 egg, beaten

3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin/biscuit pans with paper cupcake wrappers (you could just spray the pans with PAM, or some other greasing type agent - but I wanted to serve these biscuits in paper wrappers).

In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cheese. In another larger bowl, beat the egg together with milk and oil. Stir in the the flour/cheese mixture into the egg mixture - stirring just until moistened.

Spoon the batter into the wrappers - filling about 2/3 full.

Bake in your pre-heated oven for 20 - 25 minutes - or longer if needed. Use the handy toothpick test - the biscuit is done when a toothpick inserted into the center of the biscuit comes out clean. Remove from oven - let cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then finish cooling on a rack.

YUMMY!