Cheddar Bay Biscuits, My Way

These are a take on the red lobster biscuits, I found it on a website but I had to tweak it to what I had in the house since I wasn't about to drive a 45 minute round trip to make the recipe work as written. I have since made them both ways...but I like mine better!

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 4
• Yields: 20 biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1  tablespoon baking powder
• 2  teaspoons sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 1⁄8 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 1⁄4 cups  grated cheddar cheese (extra sharp is great if you have it)
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 1 1⁄4 cups buttermilk
• 7  tablespoons butter, melted
• 1  teaspoon  granulated garlic
• 1  teaspoon parsley
• 1⁄8 teaspoon paprika
• 1  dash salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan with tall sides and set aside.
2. In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar and salt. Mix well.
3. Add in garlic, cayenne pepper and onion powder. Stir to combine.
4. Work in softened butter with a pastry blender or grate FROZEN butter into the mixture on a small size.
5. After making sure that the butter is evenly distributed in the dry ingredients.
6. Add in cheese and stir to combine and coat the cheese with the dry mixture.
7. Add the sour cream and buttermilk to the bowl and mix until just combined.
8. In 9x13 pan scoop out biscuits to make 20 evenly sized biscuits.
9. Take the last four ingredients (butter, garlic, parsley, paprika and salt) and melt in a small pan over medium low heat or in the microwave until butter melts and combine the mixture.
10. Spoon half the butter mixture over the bisccuits.
11. Bake at 450 for 25 minutes or until done.
12. After you remove the biscuits out of the oven spoon the remaining butter mixture over the biscuits and enjoy!