While plenty of people got upset when I suggested it’s okay to make sweet cornbread sometimes, there is never such an outcry when it comes to a sweet take on biscuits. Here is one my favorite ways to dress up a biscuit.

Drizzle the yummy icing over a warm biscuit. (Stacey Little/Southern Bite)

Chocolate Chip Biscuits

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Serves: 10 to 12 biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 cups White Lily Self-Rising Flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
• 3/4 cup cultured nonfat or low-fat buttermilk
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

For the drizzle

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 to 4 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and line a baking pan with a silicone baking mat or a piece of parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, measure the flour by spooning it into a dry measuring cup and leveling it off.
3. Add the sugar and whisk together.
4. Cut the butter into the flour. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into pieces the size of a small pea or freeze the butter and grate it on a box grater, then stir the flour and grated butter together.
5. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
6. Add the buttermilk and stir until just combined. The dough should be like thick mashed potatoes, but not too sticky. Add a little more flour if too sticky, or a little more buttermilk if it won’t hold together.
7. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead it a few times if it’s not holding together well.
8. Flatten the dough out into a rectangle and fold it over on itself in a trifold fashion. This helps to create those flaky layers.
9. Continue lightly dusting the dough and the counter with flour to keep things from sticking.
10. Flatten it out into a rectangle again and trifold once more. You’ll want to do this about three times.
11. Flatten the dough out into a rectangle that’s about 3/4- to 1-inch thick and use a floured, sharp 2-inch to 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter to cut the dough out using a quick up-and-down motion, being sure not to twist the cutter.
12. Transfer the biscuits to the prepared baking pan, placing them nearly touching for soft, tender edges or farther apart for crunchier edges.
13. Rework the dough and flatten it out to cut more biscuits out. You should get between 10 and 12 biscuits.
14. Brush the tops with the melted butter and bake for about 15 minutes, or until golden brown.

To make the drizzle:

1. In a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar, vanilla and 3 tablespoons of heavy cream. Stir to combine.
2. Add more heavy cream to get the mixture thin enough to drizzle.
3. Drizzle over warm biscuits.

Notes

*The drizzle recipe makes a generous amount but can easily be cut in half if you want.

Be sure to see the post at southernbite.com/easy-buttermilk-biscuits/ for tips and video on how to make the perfect biscuit.

This recipe originally appeared on SouthernBite.com. For more great recipes, visit the website or check out ”The Southern Bite Cookbook.”