Tasty Tuesday ~ Biscuits and chocolate gravy

 Tasty Tuesday

While we were in Alabama this summer, our dear friend Betty made us biscuits and chocolate gravy. We had never heard of such a thing...but we were sweetly surprised. Yummy x 100! The gravy is so good, it doesn't even need biscuits ☺. The girls eat the leftovers for dessert and snacks throughout the day, not just breakfast.
    Without further ado....the recipes

                          Flaky Quick Biscuits
                          8 cups flour (we sometimes use unbleached, and sometimes use 1/2 unbleached and 1/2 whole wheat)

1/3 cup baking powder

2 tsp salt

3/4 cup shortening (I use coconut oil)

4 cups milk

Mix together dry ingredients, cut in coconut oil with 2 knives until crumbly. Then add your milk. Roll into a log about 3 inches thick and cut into 1/2 inch slices OR roll out and cut with a biscuit or cookie cutters. Bake on an ungreased baking sheet (we use a stone) for 12 minutes at 450.  These are yummy too.

Chocolate Gravy

1 1/2 cups sugar

6 Tbsp cocoa

6 Tbsp flour

pinch salt

4 cups milk

4 tbsp butter

2 tsp vanilla

Stir dry ingredients together in a medium saucepan. Mix in milk slowly. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Add butter and vanilla. Serve over hot biscuits. ~NOTE: this is big happy family size. If you don't have a big family and don't want leftovers, you might want to cut it in half.

If you try these out, let me know what you think!