Sausage and Cheese Puffs – a delicious twist on sausage balls – can bake and freeze for a quick breakfast on-the-go. Also great for parties! Only 4 ingredients – sausage, Bisquick, cheddar cheese, and buttermilk. SO easy!! Use gluten-free Bisquick for a gluten-free dish. #sausage #breakfast #partyfood
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I made these Sausage Cheese Puffs a couple of weeks ago and took down for breakfast after the football game. They were a huge hit. I would describe these puffs as gourmet sausage balls, but they are much easier to make than sausage balls. No heavy mixing and rolling. Just cook the sausage and mix with the other ingredients and scoop out.
How to Make Sausage Cheese Puffs
As I said, these sausage drop biscuits are super easy to make. Combine cooked sausage, Bisquick, cheddar cheese, and buttermilk. Use a medium cookie scoop, scoop the dough, and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Pop the cookie sheet in the oven and bake.
- I used Jimmy Dean sausage. Feel free to substitute ground turkey sausage.
- You can use regular, gluten-free, or Heart Healthy Bisquick.
- I used a medium cookie scoop to scoop the dough and it was perfect.
- Feel free to use a smaller or larger cookie scoop. Just make sure to adjust the cooking time accordingly. Smaller biscuits won’t take as long to cook, and larger biscuits will take a few minutes longer.
- You can use any cheese that you prefer in this recipe.
- You can make the puffs ahead of time and freeze after baking for later.
- Reheat the puffs at 400ºF for 7-9 minutes or until heated through. They do not need to thaw first.
Sausage Puffs for Parties or Breakfast
These sausage biscuits are a new favorite at our house. They are great for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or party snacks. I am going to double the recipe next time and freeze the leftovers – stock the freezer for the holidays. These will be perfect for Christmas morning at our house. Serve the biscuits with some eggs and smother them with gravy – YUM!
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Sausage and Cheese Puffs
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- ½ pound breakfast sausage
- 1½ cups biscuit/baking mix
- 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
- 6 to 7 Tbsp buttermilk
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- In a skillet, cook and crumble sausage until no longer pink; drain. In a bowl, combine biscuit mix and cheese; stir in sausage. Add buttermilk and toss with a fork until just moistened.
- Shape into 2-in. balls. Place on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until puffed and golden brown. Cool on wire racks.
Notes:
- I used Jimmy Dean sausage. Feel free to substitute ground turkey sausage.
- You can use regular, gluten-free, or Heart Healthy Bisquick.
- I used a medium scoop to scoop the dough and it was perfect.
- Feel free to use a smaller or larger cookie scoop. Just make sure to adjust the cooking time accordingly. Smaller biscuits won’t take as long to cook, and larger biscuits will take a few minutes longer.
- You can use any cheese that you prefer in this recipe.
- You can make the puffs ahead of time and freeze after baking for later.
- Reheat the puffs at 400ºF for 7-9 minutes or until heated through. They do not need to thaw first.
Steph
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Just stumbled upon your recipe and want to make them tonight…for a party tomorrow. Do you serve them warm? Do you serve with some sort of dipping sauce? Thanks!
I serve them warm without a dipping sauce.
These look yummy!! I wish I had some for breakfast right now!!
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Do you serve these warm or can they be room temp?
We make these on Christmas morning also! Great recipe 🙂
I'm going to put a large indention in the middle and bake a quiche mixture in the middle and serve for breakfast to go.
Joni – yes, you can use milk instead of buttermilk. You might not need as much.
Can you use skim milk instead of buttermilk?
These are incredibly delish & much easier than the traditional sausage ball!! One thing I will alter next go 'round is I'll grease the cookie sheet- the puffs stuck BIG TIME- tasty all the same though!!!
I had to come back to this post and tell you that we made these as one of our XMAS eve snacks.
We both luved them! They were delicious and I luved that they were not greasy!
I've just seen these – they look GOOD!
These were to bomb! Sooo much easier than regular sausage cheese balls and so tasty.
These were to bomb! Sooo much easier than regular sausage cheese balls and so tasty.
thanks for the info
so it's not ground pork
it's "sauage"
too bad I live in Mexico and can't get pork sauage down here.
oh well maybe I could make my own sauage
Joann – I just used some regular Tennessee Pride sausage.
just found your site and it is awesome
what kind of sauage do you use fro the sauage cheese puffs?
is it just plain ground pork or some type of breakfast sauage?
AmandaG – I got about 24 puffs. I used a medium pampered chef scoop.
These look delicious! About how many does this recipe make? Thinking about serving for an office party.
These little things are addictive as all get out. They are even better dipped in hot chili while watching the game.
I made them today and they are VERY good! thanks! putting them in the freezer for a tailgate!
Great…thanks!!!
Amanda Mae – I think you could freeze the dough. Just make sure to increase your cooking time if you don't thaw them out. Good idea!
Instead of baking them and then freezing, could you flash freeze the drops, bags them, then just pull out what you want to bake when you need them? May be a dumb question…sorry! 🙂
I do that all the time and they are perfect. Just be sure you have room in the freezer to do that! lol One Christmas I didn't and had to ask a neighbor if I could use her garage freezer, of course she obliged and I gave her this yummy treat.
No doubt, TGIFF!!!!
On XMAS eve, hubby and I have a tradition of snack food. He always requests sausage balls.
These look like some that he would luv.
This is one of those "forpittysakes" good recipes. Looks great Stephanie.