Sweet Almond Biscuits

Sweet Almond Biscuits
recipe from Debbie Uhrig @ Silver Dollar City, MO (culinary school)


4c all purpose flour
8 tsp baking powder
1/2 c almond flour or almond meal
1 tsp salt
1 c b utter
1/2 c milk
1 c buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tsp almond extract
2/3 c toasted chopped almonds

1. Sift dry ingredients and cut in butter until crumbly.  This works best with extremely cold butter.

2.  Mi eggs and milk; add extract

3.  Add chopped roasted almonds

4.  Roll dough and cut with biscuit cutter (I got a new one, first time using... fun!)

5. Bake at 450 for 10-14 minutes

I used fine chopped almonds for almond meal vs flour, almond milk, and unsweetened butter.  In the future, I would use regular milk and sweetened butter as these were not as sweet as the ones we had tasted.  I also forgot to toast the almond, oops!  Also might have chopped the butter too small, turns out the bigger the butter "chunks" the flakier they are.  In any case, they were delicious! You can also start with this basic recipe for a biscuit and add berries, etc, for scones.