Fluffy Cornmeal Biscuits
These Cornmeal Biscuits are rich and fluffy. They have a light crunch and great taste from the cornmeal. A honey glaze is the perfect finish.
When I created my Flaky Buttermilk Biscuit recipe, I found if I made a fairly wet dough, and folded that dough a couple of times, I was able to make a biscuit that is both light and flaky. This has been my ideal biscuit ever since.
Buuut, in the spirit of “there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing” combined with my love of all things corn, I decided to make a cornmeal biscuit.
I wanted something that was like cornbread crossed with a buttermilk biscuit. That can’t be bad, right?
Recipe Ingredients:
- All purpose flour – AP flour forms gluten to help the biscuits rise high in the oven.
- Stone ground cornmeal – Add flavor and texture to the biscuits.
- Baking powder – Baking powder allows the biscuits to rise high in the oven.
- Baking soda – A little baking soda reacts with the acidic buttermilk to leaven the dough.
- Salt – For flavor
- Unsalted butter – Chunks of cold butter make the flaky texture in the biscuit.
- Honey – For a hint of sweetness
- Buttermilk – Acidic buttermilk adds great flavor and tenderizes the biscuits.
How to make Cornmeal Biscuits
- Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface.
- Pat to a 1/2″ thick square.
- Fold the dough in 1/2.
- Fold the dough a second time.
- Pat the dough to 3/4″ thick and cut the biscuits.
- Reroll the scraps of dough and cut more biscuits.
- Brush the biscuits with buttermilk before baking.
- Bake until golden brown.
- Brush the biscuits with honey as soon as they comes out of the oven.
The biscuits are best eaten still warm from the oven. Leftovers (I doubt they’ll be any leftovers!) can be frozen and rewarmed in the oven or buttered and toasted on a griddle.
You might also like Zucchini Biscuits and you’ve got a sourdough starter, try these delicious Sourdough Biscuits!
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Cornmeal Biscuits
Ingredients
- 14 oz All purpose flour (2 3/4 cups, see note)
- 7 1/2 oz Stone ground cornmeal (1 1/2 cups)
- 4 teaspoons Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 8 oz Unsalted butter (cold and cut into 16 pieces)
- 2 tablespoons Honey (plus more for brushing)
- 16 oz Buttermilk (2 cups plus more for brushing)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a half sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Combine the all purpose flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk the dry ingredients to combine.14 oz All purpose flour, 7 1/2 oz Stone ground cornmeal, 1 teaspoon Baking soda, 1 teaspoon Salt
- Mix the butter into the flour with your fingers until it’s broken down into bits slightly larger than a pea. Whisk the honey into the buttermilk and add to the flour all at once. Mix until about 2/3 of the dry ingredients are absorbed.8 oz Unsalted butter, 16 oz Buttermilk, 2 tablespoons Honey
- Turn the dough onto a generously floured surface and gently knead together to incorporate the remaining dry flour (this should only take about 6-8 kneads). The dough will be quite wet.
- Gently pat the dough to a 1/2" thick, brush off excess flour and fold the dough in 1/2 and fold in half again. Pat the dough to a 1/2" again and do another two folds. Pat the dough to 3/4" thick and cut with a 3" biscuit cutter. Gather the scraps together and continue cutting until all the dough is used up.
- Set the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet and brush the tops with buttermilk. Bake until golden brown, about 10-12 minutes.
- If the bottoms of the biscuits are browning too fast set another sheet pan under the biscuits after 5 minutes of baking. As soon as the biscuits come out of the oven brush them lightly with honey.
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Hi, This recipe sounds so good and I am going to try it out asap. My question is that I set it for 8 biscuits and some of the measurements did not change. For example the flour went from 14 ounces to 9-1/3 ounces, but they both call for 2-3/4 cups of flour. And, when I ran a conversion of 14 ounces of flour it is only 1-3/4 cups? Is there some issue with the recipe conversion calculations? Thank you, in advance for your reply. I really would like to try these.
Unfortunately, I can only specify 2 types of measurements for the ingredients; ounces and grams. I put the volume measurements in the notes but they will not scale up or down since they are not “official” measurements. Sorry for any confusion but it’s a limitation of the recipe card.