Cheddar Biscuits with crispy Brown Sugar Bacon and Apples, Oh My!

If you're needing a little comfort, a little love in your tummy, THIS is just the ticket! The combination of the soft buttery biscuit with the sweet and sticky bacon... mmmm, and throw in a fresh slice of tart apple? Um, yeah, incredible and you're silly if you don't try it.

-First make the biscuit. Now, I've heard a lot of people say they are terrible biscuit makers, but if you just remember a couple of things, you will have the tastiest biscuits ever. 1. Cold butter only, cut up. 2. Don't over work your biscuit dough. Like pie crusts and other pastry doughs, you want your biscuits to be soft and light. So you have to make sure there are still little pea sized pieces of butter when you start to roll out your dough!!!

Cheddar Biscuits:

2 C all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick of butter (cold)
2/3 C of cold milk
handful of shredded cheddar cheese

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Preheat your oven to 450. Stir or sift all of the dry ingredients together. Then cut in the butter to pea size pieces. Add the milk and the cheese and and carefully stir til the dough clings together. Knead for maybe 10 strokes or even less. Roll it out on a floured surface to 1/2"-1" thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter, or a similar size glass. Bake with the biscuits touching for 10-12 minutes. Serve warm!!!

Brown Sugar Bacon aka fat crack:

12 slices of good bacon, not too thick
1 C brown sugar
1 tsp ground mustard
1 tsp nutmeg
1 Tbsp cinnamon

Preheat your oven to 350. Put foil on a baking sheet with a rack on top. Mix sugar, mustard, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a gallon size zip lock bag and shake each piece of bacon in the mix. Then twist each slice and place on the rack. When all of the bacon is on the rack, bake for 30 minutes. Let it set for about 5 minutes before you serve.

While your biscuits are baking, slice a Granny Smith apple really thin and serve the three ingredients separately or sandwich style.