Peanut banana biscuits with honey glaze - bon appetit
12 biscuits
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | cups | All purpose flour |
| 2½ | tablespoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground nutineg |
| 6 | tablespoons | (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature |
| ¼ | cup | Plus 1/3 C coarsely chopped lightly salted dry-roasted peanuts |
| ¾ | cup | Plus 3 T (or more) whipping cream |
| ¾ | cup | Mashed ripe banana |
| 2 | tablespoons | Honey |
Directions
Preheat oven to 400'F. Combine first 4 ingredients in bowl. Using fingertips, rub in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Mix in ¼ C peanuts. Add ¾ C cream and banana; stir until mixture begins to hold together. If mixture is too dry, add more cream, 1 t at a time. Gently knead dough on floured surface just until smooth, about 2 minutes. Roll out ¾ inch thick. Cut into rounds using 2¾-inch diameter biscuit cutter. Gather scraps; reroll to ¾-inch thickness.
Cut out more biscuits. Place on heavy large ungreased baking sheet.
Mix honey and 3 T cream in bowl. Brush on biscuits. Sprinkle biscuits with ⅓ C peanuts. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Serve warm.
Bon Appetit/Sept/94 Scanned & edited by Di Pahl & <gg>