These buttery biscuits flavored with dried cherries and drizzled with icing are flaky and simply delicious. Resist peeking into the oven while the biscuits are baking – biscuits need consistent heat to rise and brown and any temperature fluctuation runs the risk of flat biscuits.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cups flour: 2 piece (plus more for rolling)
- dried cherries: 0.75 cup (coarsely chopped)
- white sugar: 2 Tbsp
- baking powder: 1 Tbsp
- 1/2 teaspoons orange zest: 1 piece (for garnish)
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- fine sea salt: 1 tsp
- stick (8 tablespoons) butter: 1 piece
- full-fat Greek-style yogurt: 0.75 cup
- very cold orange juice: 0.5 cup (or more if needed)
- sifted powdered sugar: 1 cup
- whole milk: 5 tsp
- fine sea salt: 0.125 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (218 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Whisk together flour, dried cherries, sugar, baking powder, orange zest, baking soda, and fine sea salt in a large bowl.
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Coat whole stick of butter in the flour mixture. Grate butter on the large holes of a box grater into bowl. If butter starts to melt, coat butter in flour mixture again and continue grating. Use your fingers to toss butter in flour mixture until all butter pieces are separated and coated in flour. Mixture should resemble coarse crumbs.
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Whisk together yogurt and orange juice in a small bowl; add to flour mixture. Gently fold to bring dough together. Dough should be moistened but still crumbly. If dough is too dry, add more cold orange juice, 1 tablespoon at a time, until fully moistened.
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Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Lightly knead three or four times until dough comes together. Sprinkle with flour; pat to 3/4 inch thickness. Cut dough into four equal portions. Stack portions, press down, and pat again to form a 3/4-inch-thick rectangle. Repeat process three times, adding flour as needed.
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Press a 2 1/2- to 3-inch biscuit cutter straight down into dough to cut out biscuits. Gently knead scraps together, pat to 3/4-inch thickness, and repeat cutting. Arrange on prepared baking sheet (biscuits should be barely touching).
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Bake until tops are crisp and golden brown, 15 to 16 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
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Stir together powdered sugar, milk, and 1/8 teaspoon sea salt in a bowl until icing is well combined. Drizzle biscuits with icing; garnish with more orange zest.
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Store in an airtight container up to 3 days; chill up to 1 week. To reheat, bake about 10 minutes at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
