Pumpkin Sage Biscuits with Fig Blue Cheese Butter
November 7th, 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen. We have officially gotten to the 2 week countdown to Thanksgiving!
I’ll be honest- Thanksgiving being a week earlier than usual is totally throwing me off. Every year for the past 7 years, I get my Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. It lasts just to Christmas day and then it immediately (like on the 26th) has to go for fear of a massive fire based on it’s bone dry needles. This year- I will have to wait a whole week after Thanksgiving to get our tree, or risk flames before the big day! The anticipation will be very painful for me. Patience is not my strong suite.
I also feel like I barely have enough time to share all of the necessary recipes to help you through the Holiday! As I often do during this time of year, I think you can count on more posts than usual- as I really just can’t help myself when it comes to big family meals!
And these tender pumpkin biscuits (delicately laced with sage) are a great place to start they would be so lovely all warm and puffy piled in a basket on your Thanksgiving table. The only thing that could make them more delicious is if they were slathered with homemade Fig Blue Cheese Butter. Mmmmm…..
Also- a great thing about making these biscuits for Thanksgiving, is that instead of fooling with yeast (not that it isn’t worth it for some recipes!) you can pretty much slap these together in less than 10 minutes and then just bake them off as you are setting out your Thanksgiving buffet. 12 minutes later, they will be perfectly baked and ready for to eat piping hot!
To make these
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and prepare a sheet pan with a silpat or parchment.
In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients and the sage. Using a pastry cutter or two forks, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until well combined (but there will still be small bits of butter visible).
In a smaller bowl, combine the egg, milk and pumpkin.
Pour the pumpkin mixture into the big bowl.
Gently mix together the contents until everything comes together as a sticky dough.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and gently shape the dough into a square, about ¾” thick.
Slice the square into 9 smaller squares. Place the biscuits onto a sheet pan and gently rub a little milk on top of each biscuit.
Bake the biscuits at 400 degrees for 12 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
For the Fig Blue Cheese Butter
In a small food processor, combine the butter and blue cheese and whip until smooth. Fold in the chopped figs.
Recipe: Pumpkin Sage Biscuits with Fig Blue Cheese Butter
Ingredients
- -2 cups flour
- -4 tsp baking powder
- -1 Tbs sugar
- -1 tsp salt
- -2 Tbs fresh sage leaves, minced
- -½ cup cold butter, cut into small pieces
- -1 egg
- -½ cup milk
- -½ cup pumpkin puree
- -1 Tbs milk for brushing the tops of the biscuits
- Fig Blue Cheese Butter, makes 1/2 cup
- -6 ounces butter, at room temperature
- -3 ounces blue cheese at room temperature
- -4 figs, chopped
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a sheet pan with a silpat or parchment.
- 2. In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients and the sage.
- 3. Using a pastry cutter or two forks, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until well combined (but there will still be small bits of butter visible).
- 4. In a smaller bowl, combine the egg, milk and pumpkin.
- 5. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the big bowl.
- 6. Gently mix together the contents until everything comes together as a sticky dough.
- 7. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and gently shape the dough into a square, about ¾” thick.
- 8. Slice the square into 9 smaller squares.
- 9. Place the biscuits onto a sheet pan and gently rub a little milk on top of each biscuit.
- 10. Bake the biscuits at 400 degrees for 12 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
- For the Fig Blue Cheese Butter
- 11. In a small food processor, combine the butter and blue cheese and whip until smooth.
- 12. Fold in the chopped figs.
- 13. Serve with Pumpkin-Sage Biscuits.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 14 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 8
I am loving these! Perfect for Thanksgiving too!
5:54 am on November 7th, 2012
Thanks so much Maria! Yes, there will be a big basket of these on my table!
6:04 am on November 7th, 2012
Wow, Heather!!! These look amazing & the fig blue cheese butter sounds awesome!
6:06 am on November 7th, 2012
Thanks so much Julie :) That butter is awesome slathered on hot biscuits!
6:08 am on November 7th, 2012
Bet these biscuits have the BEST texture and flavor!
6:12 am on November 7th, 2012
Yes! they are so moist and tender from the pumpkin!
6:18 am on November 7th, 2012
I can smell these biscuits baking just from your post – love biscuits – close to what I would call a scone growing up in England where a biscuit is a cookie – confusing but no less delicous!
11:09 am on November 7th, 2012
Heather, your pumpkin/squash addiction is getting serious – seriously good, that is! Are you starting to notice a slight orange tinge to your family members? Ha! Ha!
I really don’t think I’ve seen so many awesome pumpkin recipes together all in one place. Keep up the good work.
11:57 am on November 7th, 2012
Wow – these sound so yummy!
LOL about the crispy tree … you can decorate the rest of the house while you are waiting … that is what I do. Works like a charm. Then you can focus all your attention on decorating your Tree when you get it. I’ve been listening to Christmas music for a few weeks now … love it!
4:47 pm on November 7th, 2012
very nice strategy Kristin! I like it!
5:22 pm on November 7th, 2012
These look phenomenal!! I am adding these to my Thanksgiving menu.
6:47 pm on November 7th, 2012
You will not be disappointed!!
7:26 pm on November 7th, 2012
Is it 350 or 400 degrees? You have both in the recipe.
6:06 am on November 14th, 2012
OMG Jessica. 400- thanks for seeing the typo :)
7:50 am on November 14th, 2012
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