Ham and Cheese Biscuit Puffs
Puffy Biscuits, Salty Ham, and Sharp Cheese
These ham and cheese biscuit puffs are easy enough for people new to cooking and tasty enough to impress a seasoned chef. These are easily made with finely diced ham, the cheese of your choice, tangy mustard, and onion all baked up in a flaky biscuit dough.
These are a great breakfast item, a wonderful appetizer, or a sandwich as a sidekick to soup. You will love these Ham and Cheese Puffs.
I made this recipe and had a couple left and they easily reheated later on. Truth be told, I would have even been happy eating these cold.
But I am an animal, so don’t be like me!
There is a recipe card at the end of this post that has the complete recipe. I have included a couple of paragraphs before the recipe card that I suggest you peruse if you have any clarification questions.
The Ingredients
Not all of the ingredients are not pictured in the above photo, but MOST are.
People will wonder what kind of ham to use. I used this already diced ham because, truth be told, this is what the delivery guy picked. I actually like the smaller dice of ham but I also think a thinner ham diced finely would be really good.
This is especially true if you won’t be using a food processor to make this recipe.
Sometimes Swiss is a great option for the cheese but I also like to use a sharp cheddar to go along with the ham.
Poppy Seeds Are Optional
I like to use poppy seeds in this recipe because they add a unique texture and flavor. You can use them or omit them.
Poppy seeds add some flair and I think they’re worth the purchase because poppy seeds are used in many recipes.
Here is a great poppy seed salad you should make as a side to this recipe, especially since you had to go and buy the poppy seeds for this one.
Horseradish Is Also Optional
I love a good horseradish and it really adds a great tang to this recipe. if horseradish is not for you, omit it and use more of the mustard or add another mustard.
The bite of the creamy horseradish is less when you make it in this recipe though, so maybe give it a try!
Bench Press, I Mean, Biscuit Press
Flatten your biscuits out for this recipe so you have more ham surface area. You do not want to press the biscuits down TOO hard.
You want them to puff up but you also want to create a larger surface area for the ham mixture. Add some cheese so your ham will have something to stick to.
Separate Your Biscuits
When it is time to top your biscuits, you want to separate the layers so that you have a thinner biscuit layer to top them with.
There may be some tearing but do not fret. Just patch it together when you lay it on top of the ham mounds.
You will have an extra biscuit or a thicker one, it is ok to make one bigger on top.
Do Not Seal
You do not want to seal the edges of the biscuits although you will feel that you need to. This is more like a ham and cheese stack with the biscuit lid.
Like a jaunty little biscuit top hat.
How To Serve
These can be an appetizer, a breakfast, or a side to soup or salad. I think making my Scrambled Eggs with these would be a great breakfast option.
As I say in the recipe card, you can make them ahead of time and reheat as well.
Ham and Cheese Biscuit Puffs
These ham and cheese puffs are easy enough for people new to cooking and tasty enough to impress a seasoned Chef. These are easily made with finely diced ham, cheese of your choice, tangy mustard and onion all baked up in a flaky biscuit dough. These are a great breakfast item, a wonderful appetizer or a sandwich as a sidekick to soup. You will love these Ham and Cheese Puffs.
Ingredients
- 1 can of jumbo refrigerated biscuit dough (8 biscuits) *it is best to use a brand that says it has "layers"
- 1.5 cups of very finely diced ham *product I use is pictured in post
- 3 cups of shredded cheese of your choice *I use white cheddar or Swiss
- 4 tablespoons of butter, room temp or softened
- 1 tablespoon of dried, minced onion or 2 tablespoons of fresh
- 2 teaspoons of dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon of onion powder
- 2 teaspoons of poppy seeds
- 1 tablespoon of a grainy brown mustard
- 1/2 tablespoon of creamy horseradish *this is optional, if you do not use the horseradish, double the brown mustard
- 1 teaspoon of honey
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 375 degrees, prepare a baking sheet with foil and non stick spray.
- Open your biscuits and take 5 of the biscuits and spread them out on the baking sheet and press them out into wider circles. Not too thin, but make them bigger.
- In a food processor add your ham, the butter, 1/3 cup of the cheese, onion powder, onions, parsley and pulse until the mixture is combined. Then add the mustard and honey and pulse until well combined. Fold in the poppy seeds. *if you do not have a food processor, use a hand blender and mix the cheese, butter, mustard, honey, onions, and seasonings until combined then fold in the ham and the poppy seeds.
- Add a sprinkle of the cheese to every one of the 5 biscuits you pressed out. Then top each one with the ham mixture. You can make a mound of it on each one. Then top with the rest of the shredded cheese.
- Separate the 3 remaining biscuits into half. I do this by separating the layers. This is pictured in the post. Then flatren those out slightly and drape over the top of the ham mounds, do not seal the edges. You will have an extra topper, I just added it to one of them. This does not have to be perfect. *this step is pictured in the post.
- Put in oven to bake. Every oven is different so check it more oftent the first time you make this. I planed to bake for 25 minutes. Halfway through i used a pastry brush to brush some of the butter that was melted onto the sheet pan onto the tops of the biscuits. Then sprinkle some poppy seeds and parsley on top. Continue to bake until the biscuits are golden brown and rise slightly and you see the cheese all melted. Again, every oven is different so keep watch. Bake these in the center of the oven. Mine in my gas oven took about 27 minutes. Your oven may cook faster.
- Remove from oven and let cool then eat! These also reheated really well in the microwave or the air fryer or toaster oven.