Homemade Cranberry Orange Drop Biscuits
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I love sharing simple, homemade recipes to make your lives easier. This one is perfect for the upcoming holiday season and is a great option for your Thanksgiving table! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EasyHolidayEats #CollectiveBias
My most popular recipe on my blog by far are these Homemade Drop Biscuits and with good reason. They are a regular in my house and one that can be prepared with just a few basic ingredients and are on the table in less than 20 minutes. I love that there is no rolling out dough! This week I decided it would be fun to add a couple of ingredients to make them a perfect holiday side. Trust me, you and your family are going to love these Homemade Cranberry Orange Drop Biscuits!
I always serve my drop biscuits with honey and preserves. What better way to enjoy the delicious combination of fruit and honey than in a product that combines them both? Smucker’s Fruit & Honey Fruit Spreads provide the perfect touch of sweetness to your favorite appetizers, meals, snacks and desserts. What an easy way to simplify for the busy holiday season!
I found them at our local Walmart near the other jams, jellies and preserves located in the peanut butter aisle.
I added some refreshing Thanksgiving flavors to my drop biscuit recipe by including orange zest and fresh cranberries.
This recipe is very easy to mix up, but you will want to work fast once you add your milk and butter to your dry ingredients. Be sure to not over mix the batter so you get nice and fluffy biscuits!
Aren’t they pretty with those gorgeous fresh cranberries? These homemade biscuits are a perfect addition to your Thanksgiving table. Who doesn’t love fresh cranberry recipes besides cranberry sauce?
Homemade Cranberry Orange Drop Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 to 3 tablespoons sugar depending upon how sweet you like them
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons finely grated orange zest about one medium orange
- 2/3 cup fresh cranberries
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1 cup milk whole milk preferred
- Topping: Smucker's Fruit & Honey Triple Berry Fruit Spread or other variety
Instructions
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Heat oven to 450 degrees. Mix together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cranberries and zest.
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Add melted butter and milk. Stir just until moistened.
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Immediately drop by heaping tablespoons (15 biscuits) onto lightly greased or parchment paper/silicone baking sheet lined large cookie sheet.
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Cook for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges turn golden brown.
The Smuckers Fruit & Honey Fruit Spreads are naturally sweetened with honey and all would would work well with these biscuits. I went with the Triple Berry.
You can slice your biscuits in half with a serrated knife and top with your Smuckers Fruit & Honey Fruit Spread.
Or you can dollop some on the top. However you serve it, it is guaranteed to be delicious.
The tartness of the fresh cranberries combined with the sweetness of the Smuckers Fruit & Honey Fruit Spread is a winning combination!
Be sure to check out your local Walmart for all the Smuckers Fruit & Honey Fruit Spread varieties including: Triple Berry, Strawberry, Blueberry Lemon, Strawberry Jalapeno and Concord Grape!
Want to try it out?
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This looks like an amazing biscuit.
I love cranberry orange, lately I’ve been eating belvita cranberry cookies and it’s now my favorite flavor. you always come up with such wonderful recipes. I have yummed and pinned it!
Oh my, yes! Orange and cranberry is my favorite flavor combination!
I want to try the blueberry lemon. These biscuits look so good.
love the new spreads and the biscuits sounds good
What a delicious biscuit recipe! They look wonderful!
I am going to make these delicious yummy Drop biscuits with this topping on it. I did not even know that Smuckers has this berry blend.
These biscuits looks really yummy. I have never had the combo of orange and cranberry before but it sounds good.
These do look so good, and I was just thinking this morning I want to make biscuits and was looking around for add ins – this is perfect, ooh I must try these!
Looks delicious and the flavors sounds amazing together! #client
These biscuits look so yummy. Thank you for the recipe
This is an awesome drop biscuit.
My mouth is watering!! I love the combo of orange and cranberry in these simple biscuits. Plus, they are so festive for this time of year 😉
What a nice twist on a normally savory biscuit. I like the sweet take on this recipe.
So easy, great texture. Made for Thanksgiving and served with homemade sausage gravy. People are still begging for the recipes!!! Thank you for saving me!!
These look amazing. Can’t wait to try. Can you use dried cranberries?
Can I use orange extract instead of zest? How much, if so? They look delish!
I haven’t tried it with orange extract but I’m sure it would be delicious! Rule of thumb is ½ the amount of extract is needed to replace 1 part of zest. I do use quite a bit of zest for this recipe so I would probably try it with 2 teaspoons of orange extract so it isn’t overwhelming. Hope that helps!