Healthy Blueberry Biscuits (vegan & easy to make!)

These healthy blueberry biscuits are a vegan recipe that comes together with just a handful of ingredients and couple minutes of prep time. Perfect for breakfast, brunch or snack time! 

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My Blueberry Picking Trip

Every year, I love to go fruit picking at a local farm. I usually do apple and pumpkin picking come early fall. And in the summertime, I think it’s fun to pick different seasonal fruits.

I’ve been in New Jersey with my family since July, since selling my home in Connecticut. I’m not too familiar with the farms here in Monmouth County, and wanted to find a place to go berry picking with my toddler.

I had my heart set on blueberry picking for the first time. Most of the farms around here were already picked over when I was searching in mid July (partly thanks to a small crop due to a late frost episode in the spring), but I was happy to find a farm a bit of a drive away that was still doing blueberry picking called Bear Berries. So off we went!

There were so many blueberries on each bush, and picking them became kind of addicting! Camryn loved picking blueberries and popping them right into her mouth. At the beginning, she was eating berries faster than we could pick them!

We came home with 6 pounds of blueberries for $10, which was awesome. And for the next couple of weeks, I was busy in the kitchen making lots of blueberry goodies. Today’s recipe is a result of that blueberry picking excursion.

Healthy Swaps in These Blueberry Biscuits

These healthy blueberry biscuits are a bit different than your usual biscuit recipe. Instead of using butter, we use solid coconut oil.

Instead of a traditional buttermilk, we use almond milk mixed with apple cider vinegar to make a vegan buttermilk.

And instead of using all white flour, we use a mix of whole wheat + white flours to make the biscuits hardier and to boost their fiber content.

These biscuits are delicious all on their own, topped with maple syrup or honey, or slathered with jelly or butter (my favorite dairy free brand is Miyoko’s).

A few family members visited while I was recipe testing these babies, and they were a crowd pleaser! They’re perfect for a snack or as part of brunch or breakfast.

Healthy Blueberry Biscuits: The Recipe

Easy, Healthy Blueberry Biscuits

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Servings 8

Calories 220 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 TBSP apple cider vinegar
• 1/3 cup solid-state coconut oil
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 1/4 cup all purpose white flour
• 1 TBSP baking powder
• 2 TBSP sugar
• 1 TSP fine sea salt
• 2/3 cup blueberries

Instructions

 

• Combine the almond milk and apple cider vinegar together in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
• Whisk together both flours, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl.
• Add in the solid-state coconut oil and use 2 butter knives or a pastry cutter to cut it into the flour bowl. Continue cutting the coconut oil in until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Pour the vegan buttermilk into the bowl, saving a few TBSPs for brushing the tops of biscuits with.
• Mix just until combined. Gently fold into the blueberries.
• Transfer the dough into a well floured surface. Work it together with your hands for a few minutes. Shape it into a rectangle, working the dough until it's about 1 inch thick.
• Cut the dough into circles using a drinking cup or biscuit cutter. Combine the scraps to form more biscuits until all of the dough is used, forming 8-10 biscuits.
• Arrange the biscuits on the pan with them all just touching. Brush the tops with the remaining almond milk mixture.
• Bake 12-15 minutes, until the biscuits are lightly browned.
• Remove from the oven and allow the biscuits to slightly cool before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
• Enjoy with butter, jelly, honey, or all on their own!
• Keep leftover biscuits in the fridge for a few days. They warm up nicely in the toaster or microwave. The biscuits can also be frozen.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 220kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 4gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 7gFiber: 3g

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Looking for more summer fruit recipes? Try these:

• Healthy Strawberry Oat Banana Bread {vegan}
• Peach Crumb Cake {vegan}
• Healthy Cherry Berry Cobbler {dairy free}
• Baked Apples with an Oat Streusel & Maple Butter Sauce {vegan}
• Peach Brown Sugar Banana Bread {vegan}

Tell me… What’s your favorite summer fruit?