Cream Cheese Biscuits

Cream Cheese Biscuits are buttery with notable cream cheese flavor, soft, fluffy, slightly sweet and salty.

These biscuits are a great canvas for spreading jam or butter. They only require 5 ingredients and are ready in 25 minutes!

One fine Sunday morning, as we sought to make breakfast for our family, we decided to make these Cream Cheese Biscuits.

First, we love cream cheese. Second, we had some cream cheese in the fridge begging to be used up. So since we make homemade biscuits a lot, we decided to add the cream cheese to our biscuit dough.

This turned out way better than we could imagine! The biscuits are buttery, creamy chees-y, soft, fluffy, slightly sweet and salty, worth making again! The best biscuits ever!

They are a great canvas for jams and butter. Honestly, we enjoy them as they are because they are worth making again with the taste of cream cheese!

If you love biscuits, also check out our homemade buttermilk biscuits and our 3 ingredient biscuits.

Cream Cheese Biscuit Ingredients

For cream cheese buttermilk biscuits, you need butter, cream cheese, sugar, self-raising flour and buttermilk. That’s it! Five ingredients only!

We do not recommend cake flour for this recipe.

How Do we Make Self-Rising Flour?

Here is how to make self-rising flour using all-purpose flour: For every 1 cup of all-purpose or plain flour, add 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt to make your own self-rising flour.

How Do we Make Biscuits With Cream Cheese?

1. Grate cold butter into a bowl or dice butter and add it to a large bowl.

2. Grate in cold cream cheese or dice cream cheese and add.

3. Add flour and sugar, then mix to combine.

4. Add buttermilk and mix with the dry ingredients and butter to form a dough.

5. Roll dough out and cut into circles using a biscuit cutter. Place on a sheet pan lined with parchment (baking) paper.

6. Bake until golden brown.

Cook notes

1. Keep cold ingredients cold: The butter should be cold and straight from the fridge before using. That helps create flaky layers in the biscuits. Other ingredients, like milk or buttermilk, should also be kept cold.

2. Work fast: When making biscuits, work fast so the cold ingredients don’t come to room temperature. If that happens, the texture of the biscuits will be off. The dough should go into the oven cold.

3. Use a grater to grate the butter: This makes it very easy to incorporate the butter into the flour.

• Yield: 16 biscuits
• Prep: 10 minutes
• Cook: 15 minutes
• Total: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold
• 8 oz cream cheese, cold
• 4 cups self-rising flour, see Note 1 on how to use all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cups buttermilk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
2. Grate Butter. Using the shred side of a grater, grate cold butter into a large mixing bowl. Alternately dice the butter and place into the bowl.
3. Grate Cream Cheese. Grate the cream cheese into the butter. It will be very sticky but that's okay. Just try to separate it with your hands.
4. Alternately dice the cream cheese and place into the bowl (will still be very sticky).
5. Add in Flour and Sugar. Add the flour and sugar to the grated butter and cream cheese. Mix together using finger tips or a pastry cutter until well combined.
6. Add Buttermilk. Pour in the cold buttermilk and mix everything together to form a dough. If it is too sticky, sprinkle on a little flour and mix so it is easier to handle.
7. Cut Biscuits. Generously flour a working surface. Press the dough onto the surface into 3/4 inch thick. You could equally roll the dough to be 3/4 inch thick. Cut the dough using a biscuit cutter into 2.5 inch circles or cut the dough using the rim of a glass or cup.
8. Place Biscuits on Parchment Paper. Place the cut out dough onto a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
9. Bake. Place the baking sheet into the preheated oven and bake biscuits for 15 minutes. If the top doesn't brown as it bakes, turn on the broiler for the last 1 minute to brown the top. (Do not leave the broiler on for more than 1 minute.)
10. Serve. Serve warm with your favorite toppings. We love these biscuits as they are or spread with jam or butter.