Trim Healthy Mama Cheesy Flower Biscuits

I will never forget the day we were gathered around the dinner table with all of The Salesman’s family and my youngest, who at that stage in her toddler life was perched in a high chair, spied the hot-from-the-oven biscuits that had been placed all too close to her high chair and cried out:

“Bisss…cut!”

Well, most of us around the table were in agreement that the royal toddler needed to eat her nutritious veggies first; but as soon as one cry got out, she would again let out,

“Bisss…cut!”

Each cry came with all the passion and asking in her eyes and voice. It was as if she was going around the table and asking each family member in her toddler way to please, someone, give her a biscuit! I will never forget what Bessie Grandma, the oldest family member at the table, said when the cries for a biscuit reached her elder ears. She very matter-of-factly said,

“Give that child a biscuit.”

Problem solved in her mind. I think she may have been tired of all the crying about a fluffy piece of bread. I share that sweet story to say that since going gluten-free, there have been times when I have wanted a good piece of bread. I haven’t cried for one, but I can tell you with certainty, I have wanted one. Usually, the hankering for good bread coincides with tomato season and my desire for a fresh-from-the-garden tomato sandwich, or when we go to Cracker Barrel and the smell of their buttermilk biscuits wafts by with the honey and butter… or what about going to Red Lobster and encountering the smell of their Cheddar Bay Biscuits?!? Oh my. Insert crying baby here.

“Bisss..cut!”

Sometimes gluten-free leaves some wanting in the bread department for me.

Well, for all you Mamas that may be wanting a good biscuit, grab your cookbooks and make these biscuits:

Cookbook: Trim Healthy Table

Chapter: Breads, Wraps, Biscuits & Loaves
Page: 248 and 249
Recipe: Cheesy Flower Biscuits
Serving: Makes 16 biscuits
Fuel: S – Satisfying

I already want to make these Trim Healthy Mama Cheesy Flower Biscuits again. And, there is a hidden vegetable in these biscuits, so if you have a royal toddler crying out:

“Bisss…cut!”

She, or he, will be able to eat their biscuit and their veggies at the same time! These biscuits will allow you to be the Bessie Grandma at your table and dispense biscuits/veggies to all crying children, or adults, wanting a good hot biscuit. You are not even going to believe that sixteen ounces of hidden veggies are in these biscuits.

Cauliflower.

There I said it. There are sixteen ounces of cauliflower hidden in these biscuits. I could not keep this secret. And now, doesn’t the name of the biscuit make more sense to you? Cheesy Flower Biscuits. I didn’t want you to think that I had misspelled the name of the recipe because there really is flower in this recipe. Yes. Cauliflower.

And the Mamas have scored with adding detailed variations for these biscuits for those of us who love the Cracker Barrel type biscuit that you’d want to slather with butter and drip your friend Cynthia’s local honey over the tops. They also have an option for a garlic and cheese biscuit for those of us who prefer a Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit. Two wins for the Trim Healthy Mamas.

These biscuits will calm any crying toddler. Or adult. They are light and crumbly on the inside, yet crisp and formed on the outside.

Two thumbs up.

Enjoy!