Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits

These Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits just made breakfast so much more interesting. With a deep sweetness contrasting the salty, smoky bacon, these whole wheat biscuits are absolutely awesome.

I think there's space in the world for to honor the classics and to innovate and reinvent. It doesn't have to be one or the other. In fact, the principle of polarity teaches us that the separation between opposites is just an illusion. It's just different expressions of the same energy. So old and new can harmoniously co-exist, and no one needs to argue over it.

Your grandma's classic buttermilk biscuits are no less exquisite because somebody else wants to try and riff on the recipe. I think sometimes in the witchcraft community there can be an overglorification of "traditional ways." I love witchcraft because we can all do what we want in the full knowledge that the principle of cause and effect is ever present in our lives. So go wild, kids. Try something new. The old ways will always be there to support you.

What makes these Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits so awesome?

I'm changing up buttermilk biscuits for you by adding some whole wheat flour, brown sugar, and salty, smoky bacon. This recipe is slightly adapted from Joy the Baker who is one of my long time kitchen inspirations. These biscuits are so flavorful. I really don't ever want to stop eating them. That deep sweetness is the perfect contrast with the deeply savoury bacon. It's everything.

Honestly, I just want to eat these one after the other fresh from the oven with good salted butter and maybe a small drizzle of honey. But you could also make a biscuit sandwich with some spicy sausage and a fried egg. Make a double batch to share with friends. Use up stale biscuits in a French toast-style breakfast casserole. The possibilities are endless, but these are pretty hard to resist, so I wouldn't count on needing to get too creative.

Magical Properties of Brown Sugar

Brown sugar is a combination of white sugar and molasses, so it will carry the same metaphysical properties as all sweet things. The stronger of these is its power to attract. Add brown sugar any time you want to "sweeten the deal." Draw your manifestations to you more quickly with this deep and sweet offering. Brown sugar can also be used in spells for comfort and love and to win over your enemies.

For more on the magical properties of the ingredients in this reicpe, check the Kitchen Magick page.

Ingredients

Here's everything you'll need to make these biscuits. The full details are in the recipe card below.

• Flours - You'll need both white and whole wheat flour here, both should be plain or all-purpose, though, and not bread flour.
• Brown sugar
• Baking powder
• Baking soda - aka bicarbonate of soda
• Salt
• Butter - unsalted and cold
• Bacon - smoked and streaky, pre-cooked is fine
• Buttermilk - or kefir

Tips for making Brown Sugar Biscuits

If you've made biscuits before, there's nothing new here. Combine all your dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Use a whisk to gently incorporate everything. Then add your cold butter in chunks and use your hands, or a pastry cutter if you're fancy, the squish the butter and flour together until you have a mixture resembling wet sand. Then mix in your bits of crispy bacon.

Finally, add in the buttermilk to bring it all together. I like to use a rubber spatula for this. It's ideal for the combination of stirring and pressing that's required for this job. Once you've brough your dough together, turn it out on a lightly floured counter and press the mixture into a rectangle about an inch thick. You can use a biscuit cutter to make round biscuits or just cut your rectangle into six equal pieces. You'll have square biscuits, but there's no wasted dough.

Then they just get baked in a hot oven until puffed and brown. These won't rise quite as high as a biscuit with all white flour, but they're still beautiful crusty on the outside and tender in the middle. And the flavor is just ridiculous.

Promise me you'll make these Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits just so that you can experience the pure joy of this brilliant riff on a classic recipe. They're so freakin' awesome.

Looking for more awesome biscuit recipes? Try these Smoked Cheddar and Sage Biscuits or some Bacon Goat Cheese and Green Onion Biscuits.

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