Easy Honey Jalapeno Cornbread Drop Biscuits boast the best of moist buttery biscuits and soft, sweet cornbread plus a speckling of jalapenos for the perfect addicting sweet heat!
Hi, I’m Jen, the recipe developer & photographer at Carlsbad Cravings and I am so excited to be joining the Real Housemoms Team! After my kidney transplant in October 2013, I was bursting with more energy than I had enjoyed in years so I decided to take the plunge and share my recipe creation obsession with the rest of the world, and Carlsbad Cravings was born February 2014. It’s been a delicious ride!
I love to create extraordinary layers of flavor and texture out of everyday ingredients – especially sweet and spicy. So today I am excited to bring you not a biscuit, not cornbread but cornbread biscuits swirled with honey and jalapenos! Think sweet honey cornbread mixed with a buttery, moist biscuit boasting the perfect amount of sweet heat. Out of this world. And you thought buttery biscuits were addicting…. Or cornbread.
These cornbread biscuits are the perfect spring/summer pool, barbecue, Memorial Day or any day side AND they are so easy! No kneading, know cutting in butter, just pulse the butter a few times with your food processor, combine with wet ingredients and drop dough by ¼ cup measurements and bake.
Honey Jalapeno Cornbread Drop Biscuits. When two delicious worlds unite.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup honey
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ cup buttermilk*
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup fine cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1-2 jalapenos chopped, seeds separated
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 12 tablespoons 1 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, whisk together honey, sour cream, buttermilk, egg, cornmeal, sugar and jalapenos. Add a few jalapeno seeds for more heat.
- Add baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour to your food processor and pulse 3-4 times to combine.**
- Scatter the butter over the flour mixture and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbles, about 8-12 pulses then pour into honey/cornmeal mixture. Stir until just combined, don't overmix! (better to undermix than overmix) Chill dough for 20 minutes (may chill up to 2 hours).
- Drop dough by 1/4 cup balls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a nonstick mat. (Chill dough that is not currently being baked.) Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until biscuits are lightly golden. Immediately remove biscuits to a cooling rack. Serve with softened butter.
Notes
**If you don't have a food processor, instead add to a medium bowl and cut in butter using two forks or a pastry cutter.
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fns says
While waiting for the first batch to cook, I stuck a scoop of dough onto our waffle iron and holy smokes does this recipe make a wonderful cornbread waffle.
The biscuits themselves were tasty, with the honey getting a nice carmelized texture in the oven, but they fell a little flat. The dropped ones spread quite a bit, and the ones that I scooped also fell some in the oven, but the waffles were pure perfection – great rise, great crust, nice, soft, light interior.
The jalapeño didn’t add much heat, so definitely add in the seeds if you’re looking to get more than just a bell pepper texture in there.
Ruth Ann Ryan says
By no buttermilk substitutes, does that refer to making your own by souring milk with vinegar? Or does that refer to one of the fake type milks that seem to be appearing on the grocery shelves?
Can’t rate this recipe yet, am afraid to try it and not be using the correct buttermilk.
Julie @Real Housemoms says
Hi Ruth Ann! No buttermilk substitutes refers to soured milk (with vinegar or lemon). This recipe needs real buttermilk to come out just right. 🙂