Cocoa Buttermilk Breakfast Biscuits with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter.
Breakfast – in the form of carby bread and um… chocolate! – should make up for the fact that I’ve been gallivanting on the sunny shores of Florida this entire week and have been somewhat MIA from this world of the internets. Blame the tequila.
I’ll even bring you a side of butter!
Like, butter that can be eaten with a spoon.
Oh yes, there IS that sort of thing.
Sound good?
You know how there are “those” people… who don’t really love super sweet chocolate stuff or pastries or desserts or whatever? Yeah yeah, you might be one of them, I KNOW. Buuuuut these are totally for them. Or you.
They are chocolatey enough to be chocolatey but not overly sweet that your teeth hurt for breakfast. And I guess you COULD eat them with dessert too, warm and soft and covered with ice cream or some kind of syrup and maybe even fruit.
Or you could just eat that butter for breakfast since that seems, uh… totally acceptable. And not weird at all.
Cocoa Buttermilk Breakfast Biscuits with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter
[slightly adapted from my cranberry biscuits which were slightly adapted from bon appetit]
makes 12-15 biscuits
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup brown sugar + 2 tablespoons
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold butter, cut into pieces
1 1/4 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa, sugar, salt, baking powder and soda, and whisk until combined. Using a fork, pastry blender or your hands, add butter pieces to the flour and mix until coarse little crumbles remain. Add buttermilk and vanilla, stirring with a spoon until just combined, not overmixing. Use your hands if needed to bring the dough together.
Use  1/4 cup measure to drop batter onto a nonstick baking sheet, or press dough on a sheet of parchment paper or cutting board, then using a biscuit cutter to shape the dough into rounds. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until biscuits are set and slightly golden on the edges. Serve immediately.
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
Add all ingredients in a bowl and mash until combined!
Now can someone bring me butter? I mean breakfast?
123 Comments on “Cocoa Buttermilk Breakfast Biscuits with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter.”
MMMMMMmm!!!!!!!!!! These look so good!
These sounds great! Enjoy Florida! I will be there next week :)
Oh my goodness.. that is definitely my kind of breakfast.. and that butter?! it looks out of this world good.
and this is why i love you…chocolate biscuits?! yes please!
I could have 1 or 10 of these for breakfast right now. They look so good and these ingredients go so great together.
Brown sugar cinnamon butter?! Seriously?! This is maybe he most decadent breakfast I’ve ever seen. I can’t wait to make it on a special occasion. Or maybe just the next time I make breakfast ;)
OH MY. These look amazing. You just made my Friday!!!
I must admit, when I saw your tweet about these, I was skeptical. Once I saw them, I was a believer!
Woooowwww!!!!!! Need this in my life!
I love this! Never heard of cocoa biscuits… It’s like a scone biscuit.
I’ve been copying pretty much all of your recipes into evernote for future use. Thanks for this!
These look SO. GOOD!
can I just say that I love your recipes! your I shaved my asparagus for this salad is one of my all time fave salads and atleast every other day I am pinning a recipe to my to-make list. plus you always make me laugh. thank you for sharing.
These look delicious! I think they would be great topped with fruit, and maybe ice cream as dessert :)
Chocolate for breakfast? Totally count me in! :) Have a great weekend!
Oh. My. Land. This is what I’m making Sunday morning after my long run. Thank you!
Can you post a recipe How to convince my husband to make those for me and bring them to me in bed? That would be awesome ;-)
Brilliant thinking with the chocolate biscuit. Why not put chocolate in a biscuit? It totally makes sense. And the brown sugar butter…yup, definitely want a steamy hot chocolate biscuit slathered in brown sugar butter with a bowl of cookie dough ice cream! Have a great weekend :)
Yumm, yes please !
Oh my! Amazing! It’s too late for breakfast, but I’m pretty sure this could be dinner.
This recipe totally makes me want to have friends over for breakfast, sooner than later!
I can dig this.
Yum! Definitely drool worthy! : )
Uhhh…Strawberry shortcake with those biscuits!!!!
This might be a silly question, but is it possible to make the batter ahead of time, like the night before, and then make the biscuits in the morning? I don’t do biscuits a lot, but I have an overnight event with some middle school girls who would LOVE these if I could pop them in the oven the next morning.
I think I just woke up and went to heaven! These look and sound amazing and are on my must try list!
thankkkk youuuuu!! yummy! :)
I feel like the tagline for your blog should be “Using as many delicious ingredients in each recipe as humanely possible.” ;) And this recipe sounds aaaamazing, per usual.
yum :)
I dont even like butter ( I know,,, Im weird), but these sound so good!
Make these for me? Please?
Brilliant!
You make food look good. Your breakfast biscuits look amazing!! Another winner.
yum. made these tonight. they are delish! will be having for breakfast with strawberries and milk.
Wow! you always amaze me with your work, very nice. its perfect for
my biscuits craving hihi!
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I’m going to have to make these in the morning for my boys:D
Hey Alica I would love to know that question too. I might make it tonight and put in fridge and than bake and see how it does.
Ok Jess, as usual in my haste to taste, I misread an ingredient and had to improvise, which in baking is usually a recipe for disaster (no pun intended!) But I think I may have salvaged them. They came out more like a big, fluffy cookie and melted the tipping and brushed on while they were still warm. All I can say is YUM! Check out pic on my Pinterest page (and tell me what you think of my George Clooney puece). Cheers!
Looks yummy… that brown sugar cinnamon butter is a great idea!
i make a LOT of biscuits, but i have never made chocolate. this is a very good – but bad – idea.
Is there anything I could use to replace the buttermilk? My family had dairy allergies, and I would really like to make these cause they look amazing. :)
Chocolate buttermilk biscuits! Somebody pinch me because either I’m dreaming or just arrived in heaven! I am featuring this post in today’s Friday Food Fetish roundup (with a link-back and attribution), but please let me know if you have any objections. It’s a pleasure following your creations…
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I want to make these. Very, very soon! They look incredible!
Really neat concept. Love!
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