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.”
There are people who don’t like carby chocolate items?! Crazyness. Love these!
Um, wow. I’m going to make these for my chocolate loving southern grandmother. She will lose her sh!t.
I imagine adding a scoop of chocolate is cream, right on top of the blob of butter. And I’d maybe even finish it off with hot fudge… Clearly I’m NOT one of the thoooooose people.
You had me at brown sugar cinnamon butter. You could put that on a leather shoe, and I would probably eat it. ;)
After I finish the entire batch of these biscuits slather in that butter (THAT BUTTER!!!), I’d like to have another batch of that butter to slather all over a baked sweet potato. Please and thank you.
Oh my… These look incredible! I think I’ve just found the perfect recipe for my indulgent Sunday breakfast!
This is pretty much my perfect breakfast.
Oh my goodness, chocolate for breakfast? Smothered with cinnamon roll-flavored butter?
Perfect Friday morning breakfast in bed!
Have a great weekend, Jess! :-D
yes please! I would love it if I could get back in bed right now and eat these!
Just went through an all-nighter. I want this for breakfast nowwwww. It would help sooo much in getting through the rest of the day. Looks soo scrumptious !! :)
Oh thoooose people, HAH! I know aren’t they just so silly? They don’t know what they’re missing out on! Hope Florida is treating you splendidly.
What a wonderful breakfast biscuit! I can see smothering peanut butter on it! Yum!!!
I’ve been loving biscuits lately. I made a large batch last weekend and I pretended to be my grandmother since she always made the biscuits when I was growing up. I had to make them dairy and gluten free though, but now I need to make them chocolate. These look amazing Jessica. I swear I can smell them through the computer screen. Have a great weekend!
Cocoa in a biscuit? Die. I’m in heaven right now. Sounds amazing! Yummy!
I don’t trust anyone who says they, “don’t do sweets”. Sure, just like I have never cried or peed my pants.
These look like a great way to catch them.
OMG you’re in Florida?! Lucky you!! I am one of “those people” that doesn’t really like super sweet things but these look too good to resist. Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter… swoooooon.
You can bring me breakfast in bed any time.
Those sound incredible!!! Perfect breakfast, I think!
Your posts have always a certain decadence that I simply love!
wow. this looks so incredibly good.
it’s so rainy here in nyc… so i wouldn’t mind breakfast in bed. :-)
That butter alone has me swooning let alone putting it on chocolate biscuits! Ahhh!! Love it!
Have you ever tried to make your own butter? As in, putting heavy cream in a food processor and blend until solid? You totally should. Its so easy, and so delicious. You can also add in the ingredients for your brown sugar cinnamon butter, I bet it would be amazing.
This recipe pretty much sums up my week- I’ve been obsessed with brown sugar cinnamon butter since I had Cracker Barrel’s a couple months ago, and this week alone I’ve made it a handful of times. Made it the other night to smear onto homemade sweet potato biscuits and was brainstorming my next move. These cocoa biscuits are IT. Thanks Jessica!
You are in Florida? I am SO jealous! ;-) This cocoa biscuit recipes totally makes up for it, though! Cocoa biscuits? Who knew? Well, you of course, but I never would have thought of adding cocoa to biscuits. Now I can’t get the idea out of my head, so I am off to make these! :-)
You had me at brown sugar cinnamon butter.
Oh I wish you were bringing me breakfast in bed.
I love you.
I just made strawberry mint jam and these biscuits are being tomorrow to be enjoyed with jam. the jam that I eat with a spoon straight from the jar. though cinnamon butter is hard to beat.
Um, I’d like to dive in a bowl of that there cinnamon sugar butter. It’s *almost* enough to make me forgive you for gallivanting on the shores of Florida, margarita in hand, as I sit in my office typing this.
But only almost. ;)
Ohmygoodness! I want to make these right now! Unfourtuntely my oven is currently occupied with your sweet potato yeasty buns…at nine thirty last night when I was whipping up the dough, my husband thought I was crazy. He will love me when he comes in from the barn at seven and there are fresh buns with breakfast!
Chocolate biscuits,get all up in my business please.
These look so fantastic!!
I would love to have some of these this weekend. YUM!!
What a treat!
Yea. Who are those people? Bring on the biscuits and butter!
Strawberry shortcake needs to be made with these! Omg.
I need to make these. Now. But no buttermilk. *dies*
You can make buttermilk! Just add 1 Tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice to a 1 cup measuring cup and then fill the rest up with milk. Let it sit for 5 minutes and you are good to go! Works like a charm, I never buy buttermilk, I just make it.
My savior! So making these. Now. Omg, can’t wait.
Who are these people you speak of? What planet are they from?! ;)
Obsessed. So completely and totally obsessed with you and with these. I’m thinking they should become the most decadent strawberry shortcake ever.
These look amazing, I am a big fan of biscuits. Biscuits and gravy are wonderful, maybe you could make a chocolate gravy sort of thing to go with these?? Can you tell I’m a chocoholic?
I think my head just exploded!
They’re gorgeous and the bowl that your Brown Sugar Cinnamon Butter is in…that’s such a great little ramekin! Love this whole recipe!
These look insanely good :) And the butter…. Even more DELICIOUS!!! I am a real butter piggy, haha. I have to admit: I myself would SO want to put freshly sliced cheese on them, because I adore the sweet/slighty-salty combo, yuummmmm. Thanks for sharing!!! Enjoy your weekend, Jessica!
Love, Maria from Denmark.
Do you think these would work if I swap the buttermilk for coconut milk? I’m just in this ridiculous chocolate coconut phase.
Oh look, its the little bowl thingy I bought you in the pic :) Hope your having a great time. Can wait to see you for our coffee date soon…
What a lovely treat! I absolutely love the idea of chocolate biscuits and that butter looks/sounds amazing. I pinned this recipe, happy Friday!
These look fabulously yummy!
you had me at cinnamon butter. holy cow these look incredible jessica! :)
Everyone loves chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, so why not cocoa biscuits :) These are so creative and delicious-looking!
I would have loved to have one of these alongside my coffee this morning! Look delicious!