Best 5 Bonnies Cat Head Biscuits Recipes

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**Bonnet's Cat-Head Biscuits: A Southern Delight**

In the realm of Southern cooking, few dishes evoke nostalgia and comfort quite like Bonnet's Cat-Head Biscuits. Originating from the kitchens of resourceful home cooks, these colossal biscuits have earned a place of honor on breakfast tables and dinner plates alike. Renowned for their light, flaky texture and golden-brown crust, they possess a unique charm that has captivated taste buds for generations. While the name "cat-head" may conjure images of feline-sized portions, these biscuits typically range from palm-sized to saucer-sized, offering a satisfyingly generous helping.

This article presents a delectable collection of recipes that pay homage to the beloved Bonnet's Cat-Head Biscuits. Each recipe offers a unique twist on the classic, ensuring that biscuit enthusiasts of all preferences can find their perfect match. From traditional buttermilk biscuits to savory cheese biscuits and indulgent cinnamon-sugar biscuits, this compilation caters to a wide range of tastes. Whether you prefer your biscuits plain or adorned with delectable toppings, this article has something for every biscuit aficionado. So, gather your ingredients, preheat your oven, and embark on a culinary journey that celebrates the timeless allure of Bonnet's Cat-Head Biscuits.

Here are our top 5 tried and tested recipes!

BONNIE'S CAT HEAD BISCUITS



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Cat Head Biscuits are usually found in the South. Since I haven't had these in years, I decided to try and make them. I mean, how hard can it be? I soon found out it was a difficult task without the right recipe. The original recipe calls for Lily brand flour. We can't buy it out west, so I had to find a substitute. Then I...

Provided by BonniE !

Categories     Biscuits

Time 35m

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 1/8 cup cake flour
1 1/8 cup all purpose bleached flour
1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cup buttermilk
4 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Steps:

  • 1. Following this recipe to the letter is critical for good results. Don't substitute ingredients. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
  • 2. Read the recipe through and assemble all ingredients before beginning. Add the dry ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. Mix well.
  • 3. Measure the cold unsalted butter and cut it into small pieces. Add them to the flour and with your hands or two knives, cut through the flour until it resembles coarse ground cornmeal.
  • 4. Mixing is crucial. If you overdo it, the biscuits will be tough. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in all of the buttermilk. Using a wooden spoon, carefully scrape the spoon down the sides and under the flour mixture and roll to the middle. Go all around the bowl and just a couple of gentle passes through the middle should remove all dry flour. The dough will be sticky and craggy. Press your fingers in the dough gently for 3 gentle kneads.
  • 5. Now form the dough into a round ball, dipping your hands in flour to keep them from being sticky,and shake off the excess flour. When you have formed a ball, pinch it in half to divide it. Now you have two balls.
  • 6. Take each of of the two balls and divide them into 3 pieces Now you have 6 biscuits. Don't do any extra shaping or over handle the dough (this is very important!) Place them in a greased springform pan.
  • 7. Bake the biscuits in the pre-heated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until they are a golden brown and the toothpick test says they are done.
  • 8. Here is what they look like! Enjoy these Cat Head Biscuits!

BONNIE'S BREAKFAST BISCUITS



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You won't be able to eat just one. Not going to happen. West met the East's cat's head biscuits and said, "Hold on there, Pardner, you gotta make a change. Because you are moving out West!!" I think all my southern family would approve. Who doesn't like light and delicious breakfast biscuits with sausage gravy? East or...

Provided by BonniE !

Categories     Biscuits

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 1/8 cup cake flour
1 1/8 cup all purpose bleached flour
1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cup cold buttermilk
4 1/2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter

Steps:

  • 1. Following this recipe to the letter will assure good results. Don't substitute ingredients. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Read the recipe through and assemble all ingredients before beginning. Add the dry ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. Mix well.
  • 2. Measure the cold unsalted butter and cut it into small pieces. Add them to the flour and with your fingers and cut through the flour until it resembles coarse ground cornmeal.
  • 3. Mixing is crucial. If you overdo it, the biscuits will be tough. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in all of the buttermilk. Using a wooden spoon, carefully scrape the spoon down the sides and under the flour mixture and roll to the middle. Go all around the bowl and just a couple of gentle passes through the middle should remove all dry flour. The dough will be sticky. Use as little flour as possible to form the dough.
  • 4. Now form the dough into a round ball, dipping your hands in flour to keep them from being sticky ,and shake off the excess flour. When you have formed a ball, turn it out onto a floured cutting board. Pat the dough to ½ inch thick and cut with a two inch biscuit cutter. This recipe makes about 12 biscuits.
  • 5. Don't do any extra shaping or over handle the dough (this is very important!) Place the biscuits in a greased 12 inch cast iron skillet.
  • 6. Bake the biscuits in the pre-heated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until they are a nice golden brown.
  • 7. This may sound odd, but I serve my hot biscuits from my soup tureen that has a lid to keep them warm. They stay warm a long time in that container, and it looks cool!

CATHEAD BISCUITS



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This is the old-time recipe from our grandmamas. There is no real measurement in this for the shortening. Wonderful and tasty heavy biscuit from the old times. Great with homemade sausage gravy. Always always always use White Lily® flour for the fluffiest biscuits. I usually don't always use all of the buttermilk. I seem to usually have just under a 1/4 cup leftover.

Provided by Hollinhead77

Categories     Bread     Quick Bread Recipes     Biscuits

Time 25m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 5

4 cups self-rising flour (such as WhiteLily®)
1 pinch salt
3 tablespoons room-temperature vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®), or as needed
1 ¾ cups buttermilk, or as needed
¼ cup melted butter for brushing, or to taste

Steps:

  • Preheat an oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch cake pan.
  • Sift flour and salt together into a large mixing bowl. Make a dent in flour by pushing flour from center toward sides of bowl. Add 2 walnut-size lumps of shortening and a splash of buttermilk to the flour where you made the dent. Work the shortening into the flour using fingers in a twisting motion (rub thumb against pointer and middle finger motion) until the shortening is fully incorporated into the flour.
  • Pour buttermilk into the flour about 1/4 cup at a time, continuing to work it in with your fingers until the buttermilk is completely incorporated into a sticky dough.
  • Roll dough into 8 large balls and drop into prepared cake pan, working around the outside and putting the last one in middle to fill the pan. Press dough balls with back of fingers to flatten until they touch and are about 3/4- to 1-inch thick.
  • Bake in preheated oven until the tops are golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Brush tops with melted butter.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 336 calories, Carbohydrate 49 g, Cholesterol 17.4 mg, Fat 11.6 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 8 g, SaturatedFat 5.2 g, Sodium 910.3 mg, Sugar 2.7 g

CATHEAD BISCUITS



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The recipe for these extra-large biscuits comes from Virginia Willis, the author of "Secrets of the Southern Table." A phrase her grandfather once used, the name indicates that it's a biscuit as big as a cat's head. Each one is golden brown and slightly crisp on the outside, with a light, airy interior.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Breakfast & Brunch Recipes     Bread Recipes

Yield Makes about 9

Number Of Ingredients 5

4 cups White Lily or other Southern all-purpose flour, or cake flour (not self-rising), plus more for rolling
2 tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons fine sea salt
8 tablespoons (1/2 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes and chilled
2 cups buttermilk

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat. (You can also bake the biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet.)
  • In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut butter into flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal. Pour in buttermilk and mix until just barely combined. It will be a shaggy mass. (Alternatively, you can mix the dough in a food processor: Pulse to combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Add butter and pulse until it resembles coarse meal. Pour in buttermilk through feed tube and pulse until just barely combined.)
  • Turn shaggy mass out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead lightly, using the heel of your hand to compress and push dough away from you, then fold it back over itself. Give dough a small turn and repeat four or five times. (You want to just barely activate the gluten, not overwork it.)
  • Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out dough 1 inch thick. Using a 3 1/2-inch round cutter dipped in flour, cut out rounds (press cutter straight down without twisting so biscuits will rise evenly when baked).
  • Place biscuits on prepared sheet. (If biscuits are baked close together, sides will be tender. If biscuits are baked farther apart, sides will be crisp.)
  • Reroll scraps once. Do not simply roll them into a ball; this will create a knot of gluten strands. Instead, place the pieces one on top of the other in layers, then roll out dough and cut out more rounds.
  • Bake until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool just slightly. Serve warm.

FLUFFY CATHEAD BISCUITS WITH HONEY BUTTER



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Cat head (or cathead) biscuits are a Southern staple whose name refers to their large size (about as big as a cat's head). The dough for this hand-rolled biscuit recipe is made by incorporating flour into the wet ingredients, instead of the reverse. The result is a fluffy (rather than flaky) biscuit, ready to be split and spread with flavorful honey butter.

Provided by Joe Sevier

Categories     Biscuit     Bake     Breakfast     New Year's Day     Peanut Free     Tree Nut Free     Soy Free

Yield Makes 12 biscuits

Number Of Ingredients 12

For the biscuits:
1/2 cup buttermilk powder
3 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
Pinch of sugar
6 tablespoons lard or bacon fat, cut into pieces and slightly softened
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and slightly softened, plus more, melted, if desired
3 1/2-4 cups all-purpose flour, divided, plus more
For the honey butter:
1/2 cup flavorful honey (such as buckwheat)
1/4 cup unsalted butter, slightly softened
1/2 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt

Steps:

  • For the biscuits:
  • Arrange rack in middle of oven; preheat to 400°F. Whisk buttermilk powder, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a large bowl until evenly distributed and no lumps remain. Add 2 cups water and whisk to combine. Add lard and butter.
  • Add 2 cups flour and mix with a fork until mixture resembles porridge. Using fork, press fats against side of bowl to cut into smaller, irregular, flattened pieces.
  • Fold in remaining 1 1/2-2 cups flour by the half cup with fork until a wet dough forms. Turn out dough onto a well-floured surface. Dust top of dough with more flour. Gently fold dough into itself until it feels like a pillow and is no longer sticky. Using a floured bench scraper or butter knife, divide dough into 12 equal pieces.
  • Working with 1 piece at a time, dip cut sides in flour and gently roll into a ball with your hands. Nestle each ball side by side in a large cast-iron skillet or on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake biscuits until lightly browned, 25-30 minutes. Brush with melted butter, if desired. Serve with honey butter.
  • For the honey butter:
  • Combine honey, butter, and salt in a medium bowl. Mash with fork until just combined but not emulsified.

Tips:

  • Use cold butter: Cold butter will help to create flaky biscuits. If you don't have time to chill the butter, you can freeze it for 30 minutes before grating it.
  • Grate the butter: Grating the butter will help to distribute it evenly throughout the dough. This will result in a more even bake and flakier biscuits.
  • Don't overmix the dough: Overmixing the dough will make the biscuits tough. Mix the dough just until it comes together.
  • Let the dough rest: Letting the dough rest will help to relax the gluten and make the biscuits more tender. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes before rolling it out.
  • Cut the biscuits straight down: Cutting the biscuits straight down will help to prevent them from spreading too much in the oven. Use a sharp knife to cut the biscuits.
  • Bake the biscuits in a hot oven: Baking the biscuits in a hot oven will help to create a crispy crust and a fluffy interior.

Conclusion:

Bonnie's Cat Head Biscuits are a delicious and easy-to-make biscuit recipe. They are perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. With a few simple tips, you can make sure that your biscuits turn out perfect every time.

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