Easy 7up Biscuits

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Texas Iron Chef

7up Biscuits

Can you believe that these biscuits are made with just four ingredients?  It is true!  And you won’t believe how tasty, light, and melt-in-your-mouth good they are.  Mmmm good!  Biscuits with butter and Ghost Pepper JellyWe made these for a Dutch oven demonstration this past weekend at Cabela’s and the everyone loved them.  Best of all, they were amazed that they were baked with charcoal in a big black pot.   Dutch Oven Demo at CabelasIt was so much fun to watch the faces of visitors when they took a bite – pure joy and amazement.

Easy 7up Biscuits
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Super easy to make and bake for breakfast, brunch, or dinner, this recipe calls for only four ingredients. Serve it with a little bit of jam or your favorite sausage gravy.
Servings Prep Time
24 biscuits 10 minutes
Cook Time
15-20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
24 biscuits 10 minutes
Cook Time
15-20 minutes
Easy 7up Biscuits
Print Recipe
Super easy to make and bake for breakfast, brunch, or dinner, this recipe calls for only four ingredients. Serve it with a little bit of jam or your favorite sausage gravy.
Servings Prep Time
24 biscuits 10 minutes
Cook Time
15-20 minutes
Servings Prep Time
24 biscuits 10 minutes
Cook Time
15-20 minutes
Ingredients
Servings: biscuits
Instructions
  1. Fire up a big chimney of charcoal. You will need about 45 charcoal briquettes so don't hold back. Melt butter in 16-inch camp Dutch oven. If you don't have a 16-inch oven, you can make two batches in a 12-inch camp Dutch oven. If you do this, divide the butte in half.
  2. Measure out Bisquick into a large mixing bowl. Add soda and sour cream.
  3. Gently fold ingredients together taking care not to over-stir or over-work the dough. It will be crumbly and that's OK.
  4. Prepare your work area by sprinkling a generous amount of Bisquick that covers about 10-inch diameter. I like to work on a pastry mat with guidelines, plus it makes clean up easy and quick. Dump the dough out onto prepared area. Sprinkle more Bisquick across the top of the crumbly dough.
  5. Pat dough out into a 10-inch circle that is about 1/2 inch thick.
  6. Punch out biscuits.....
  7. ... and place in prepared Dutch oven.
  8. Place biscuits close to each other but not touching to give them room to puff up.
  9. Bake at 425 degrees Fahrenheit by placing 13 hot charcoal in a circle beneath the 16-inch oven and a double ring of charcoal around the lid. Bake until biscuits are golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. If you are baking in the 12-inch oven, place 9 hot charcoals in a circle beneath the oven and make a double ring around the lid.
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Sunflower Bread

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Texas Iron Chef

Shaping bread is a labor of love that has countless possibilities.  A quick search on YouTube brings up “about 138,000 results,” and I bet there are even more if we were to look at cookbooks, magazines, and blogs!  The results, however, are priceless as friends and family enjoy the gift you baked for them.  In this post, I will share how to make a sunflower bread with a little bit of sweet surprise.IMG_6823Any bread recipe with about 5 cups of flour will work for this technique, but if you want to make the bread shown in this post, double the Twisted Sweet Bread recipe.  I love the subtle spices, the contrasting colors, the bites of sweet Nutella, and the orange glaze.  This recipe works beautifully in a 16-inch camp Dutch oven.

After the dough has doubled in size and is ready to be shaped, divide it in half.  (I strongly recommend using a digital scale throughout this process to make sure the portion sizes are evenly distributed.)  Cover one part with a damp towel and set it aside.

Step One:  Stack the outer section of the sunflower

Divide the remaining piece into five equal pieces.  Roll each into a ball.   Shape four pieces into a round circle that is about 9-inches in diameter and the fifth piece into a round that is about 10-inches in diameter.  Smear a thin layer of Nutella on the four smaller circles and then make a stack.  Lay the fifth layer on top (it won’t have any Nutella).  Nutella

Step Two:  Create the outer “petals” of the sunflower

Using a very sharp knife, make four long cuts in the shape of a star with each end of the cuts about 1/2 an inch from the edge of the stacked dough. Eight CutsMake sure that each cut goes through all five layers of dough.  Using the tip of the knife, gently slip the tip of the knife beneath the bottom layer of a triangle then pull it up and flip it out and over the edge of the circle.  Flip out PetalsRepeat for all eight sections.  IMG_6802The center of the petals should be about 5 1/2 inches in diameter.

Step Three:  Create inner “petals”

Take the remaining section of dough and slice off 1/4th of the dough.  Shape into a ball.  Set aside and cover with damp towel.  This will be the center of the sunflower

Divide the remaining dough into five equal pieces and shape into a ball.  Roll each ball into a circle that is about 5 1/2 inches in diameter.  Brush melted butter between each layer and make a stack.  Place the stack inside the outer petals and make four cuts as you did for the outer layer of petals.  Orient the base of each triangle in between the outer “petals” so that when you flip out the triangle, each inner “petal” will lay between the outer “petals.

Place the remaining ball into the center of the flower.

Ready to RiseCover and let the dough rest for about an hour or until it has doubled in size.

Step Four:  Egg wash and seeds

Beat an egg with a splash of water until it is creamy yellow.  Using a pastry brush, carefully brush egg wash on the dough.  Sprinkle a thick layer of poppy seeds over the center ball.  Sprinkle sesame seeds over the petals.  IMG_6814

Step Five:  Bake and Glaze

Bake according to the directions.  Add glaze while bread is warm.

Enjoy!

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