Wanna be Red Lobster Cheese Biscuits

Since I went to Red Lobster last week, I had a craving for their fk awesome cheese biscuits.

 I looked at different recipes online and they were pretty similar.

Sour Cream, Cheddar, and Chive Biscuits
(recipe from the blog Pinch My Salt)

Ingredients:

• 2 C. Bisquick
• 1/2 – 3/4 C. shredded cheddar cheese (I used 3/4 cup)
• 2 T. snipped fresh chives (I didn't really measure - I just snipped away until it looked green enough)
• 1/3 C. sour cream
• 1/3 C. milk

Garlic Butter (optional): (I was too lazy to do this but this was my big mistake. I think the garlic butter was definitely the key to making the biscuits taste better. They were fine out of the oven, but dry the next day. The garlic butter would have helped)

 In small saucepan melt 2 T. butter over low heat. Crush one small clove of garlic and add to the butter. Cook for a couple of minutes and then turn off heat. Brush biscuits with garlic butter as soon as they come out of the oven.

Here's my unbaked biscuit. I used a vintage biscuit cutter stolen borrowed and never to be returned taken brought home courtesy of the US Navy (Thanks Dad!).

Directions:

•  Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In bowl, mix together dry biscuit mix, cheese and chives.
• Blend milk and sour cream together in measuring cup then pour into dry mixture.
• Mix with spoon until just combined (do not overmix!).
• Sprinkle counter with some extra Bisquick and dump mixture onto counter.
• Knead gently a few times until everything is fairly well incorporated.
• At this point more Bisquick can be added if dough is too moist to work with.
• Pat out to 1/2 thickness and cut into biscuits (whatever size or shape you want).
• Place on ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake for about 8 – 10 minutes until golden.  
• Brush with garlic butter (optional), place on rack to cool for a couple minutes then eat while warm.

These made about 6-8 regular sized ones. I made two batches.

Oh yeah, look at the golden brown tops...YOu can see which ones were the nice big ones and which ones were the MUTANTS.  Martha Stewart I'm not.

They were pretty good for my first try.

Next time, I'll make the garlic butter...

Oh yuk, you can see how dry my skin is on my thumb. Nice going there.  But hey now, those biscuits were pretty tasty!

The other variations I saw online had garlic powder and more Bisquick. Man, I haven't bought Bisquick in years. My dad used to make pancakes every weekend using Bisquick. One of my friends, Robsessed, makes puto (white rice cake) with it as well.

I think I want to find a recipe that makes these from scratch instead of using Bisquick because it has that wierd Bisquicky flavor to it - kind of fluffy and dry and not as moist as it could be. But still, for a first try, not bad at all.