Reduced-Fat Buttermilk Biscuits

Name: Reduced-Fat Buttermilk Biscuits
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: Southern, American
Ingredients: 3 cups (15 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon, sugar; 1 tablespoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and frozen for 1 hour; 3 tablespoons, Neufchatel (1/3 less fat) cream cheese, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and frozen for 1 hour; 1 1/4 cups, nonfat buttermilk

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2009

Desserts or Baked Goods

Is cutting fat and calories even possible in something that relies so heavily on butter and shortening? It is with our recipe-you'd never know they were low in fat.

SERVESMakes 12

TIME45 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We eliminated shortening from our Reduced-Fat Buttermilk Biscuits because it adds little in terms of flavor and it’s more caloric than butter. Ultimately, a combination of butter and neufchatel (one-third fat reduced cream cheese) provided ...

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