Today, I have another “cheater” recipe for you… super easy, cheesy pull-apart biscuit bites that are the perfect appetizer for game days, holidays, dinner parties, or any time really. These biscuit bites are baked in a cupcake tin giving them a golden, slightly crunchy outer crust. When you pull them apart you get small cheesy and delicious individual bites topped with all your favorite tasty toppings.
If you’re new here, a “cheater” recipe includes some sort of shortcut, making it easier to whip up when you’re in a rush. In today’s recipe, the “cheater” component is a can of Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits, which will be cut up, stuffed with cheese, and dipped in a seasoned butter mixture to make these cheesy, garlicky, completely yummy pull-apart biscuit bites.
Now that your mouth is watering, let’s get into this recipe!
RECIPE: Cheesy Pull-Apart Biscuit Bites
Makes: 16 pull-apart biscuit bites
Prep time: 10 minutes
Oven temperature: 400°F
Bake time: 11 minutes
Total time: 21 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 can of Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits (8 large biscuits)
- 3 – 3.5 oz. brick cheese of your choice cut into 64 cubes, approx. 1/2″ wide (See Note 1)
- Approx. 3/4 – 1 cup Kraft parmesan cheese (to roll the biscuit balls in)
- 1 stick salted butter
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons white pizza mojo seasoning (shop on Amazon)
- 1 heaping tablespoon Kraft Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup grated Tillamook medium cheddar cheese
- 3-4 slices pepperoni, diced into small pieces
- Sliced pickled peppers to taste (I put about 1 tablespoon on each biscuit bite)
- And any other toppings of your choosing!
Instructions:
1. Preheat your oven to 400°F. Grease a regular cupcake tin and set aside. (See Note 3)
2. Prep your garlic butter mixture. Microwave the stick of salted butter until completely melted, about 30-45 seconds. Add in the garlic powder, white pizza mojo seasoning, and parmesan. Stir until well combined.
3. Cut each Grands! biscuit into 8 equal pieces. Tuck one tiny cube of cheese into each biscuit piece and pinch the dough together to seal. Roll lightly between your palms to form each cheese-stuffed biscuit piece into a ball shape.
4. Dip each biscuit ball into the garlic butter mixture. Then roll in Kraft parmesan to coat the entire surface of the biscuit ball.
5. Grab your greased cupcake tin and place four biscuit balls on the bottom of each cup.
6. Now add your toppings! I sprinkle about 1 tablespoon of grated Tillamook cheddar cheese and a bit of diced pepperoni on each biscuit bite before placing about one tablespoon of sliced pickled peppers on top.
7. Bake the biscuit bites for 11 minutes at 400°F. The cheese should be melty and the edges should be golden when they are done, as seen below.
8. Serve these pull-apart biscuit bites right out of the oven while they are still warm. Enjoy! Feel free to dip in marinara or garlic butter if you so choose.
Notes from the Happy to Be Here Kitchen:
1. Cheese: I stuff the biscuit pieces with onion brick cheese, which adds just a tiny bit of flavor to the biscuit bites. You can tuck whatever cheese you like in the biscuit pieces, but I would suggest choosing a cheese that melts fairly easily so you get that gooey, cheesy bite when you serve these right out of the oven.
While the cubes of cheese you stuff in the biscuit pieces may seem small, you will be able to taste them. You do not want the cubes to be so large that they burst out of the biscuit bites while baking.
2. Toppings: Feel free to change the quantities of each topping to suit your taste buds, or add your own favorite toppings to these. For me, the toppings that make these extra yummy are the grated cheese and these homemade sweet and spicy pickled peppers. Some other topping ideas include diced jalapenos, olives, more cheese, a pinch of Italian seasoning, some fresh basil, or any of your other favorite pizza toppings.
3. Cupcake tin: If you’d like, use cupcake wrappers in each cup to make serving easier. Just be sure to grease the wrappers before assembling your biscuit bites. Note that you may not get the same golden, slightly crunchy crust on the outside of the biscuit bites if you use wrappers.
Have you tried these easy, cheesy pull-apart biscuit bites?
If you have, let me know how you like them down below. If you’re looking for other easy appetizers, check out these yummy taco wonton cups, the easiest dill pickle roll-ups, or these sweet and spicy pickled pepper pinwheels.
Also, make sure you check out my recipe for sweet and spicy refrigerator pickled peppers, which I use as a topping for these biscuit bites. I know I’m biased, but they are so yummy!
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