Dinner made easy – a ground beef and barbecue mixture is loaded into refrigerated biscuits and baked in these BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups.
Originally posted August 27, 2008
I am all about making things easier in life. There are always to do lists and places to be. And sometimes, dinner doesn’t need to be complicated – just easy.
This is what I like to call a cheater recipe. You take a few prepackaged ingredients, a few minutes, and dinner is done and on the table. It’s not fancy or sophisticated, but it’s easy, it’s fast, and it’s something the whole family will love.
These BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups are your answer on those days when you just need easy.
What Ingredients are in BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups?
These BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups only take a few ingredients:
- Ground beef – I like to use a fairly lean ground beef so that I don’t have to drain the meat. Just know that if you don’t use a lean ground beef, you may need to drain some fat off before adding the barbecue sauce.
- Onions – I put these in right with the ground beef so that they get softened perfectly while the beef cooks.
- Barbecue Sauce – you can use any prepared bbq sauce for this recipe, but make sure that you use one you know you like. When there are so few ingredients, each ingredient tends to stand out more.
- Brown Sugar – you can leave this out if you want, but it just brings in a little bit of sweetness – not too much at all.
- Refrigerated Biscuits – for the biscuits, you’ll just want to make sure you get the large biscuits, and that there are 8 in the package.
- Shredded Cheddar Cheese – I love to use freshly grated cheddar, as I think that it melts better.
How to Make these BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups
- Start by browning the ground beef and onion at the same time. This gives the onion time to soften.
- Add the barbecue sauce and the brown sugar and cook it for another minute or two to make sure it is all combined and blended.
- Take your refrigerated biscuit dough and separate it into 8 biscuits. Slightly flatten them, then press them into a lightly greased muffin tin.
- Divide the ground beef mixture between the cups that you just formed. They might seem like very full, but it should all fit.
- Divide the cheese among the cups and sprinkle the cheese.
- Bake the cups until the biscuit is lightly browned.
More Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Puffed Up Pizza Casserole
Taco Casserole
Beef Enchilada Casserole
Cabbage and Beef Bundles
Easy Sloppy Joes
Tools Used to Make These BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups
I like to use a nonstick muffin tin for this recipe. Then these biscuit cups should pop right out.
To cook the ground beef, I like to use either a nonstick skillet or a cast iron skillet.
BBQ Beef Biscuit Cups
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 1 16 oz can Grands Refrigerated Buttermilk or Flaky Biscuits
- 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 400ºF. Grease 8 muffin cups.
- Place a large skillet over medium-high heat and add the ground beef and the onion. Cook until the ground beef is browned, breaking it up as it cooks. Stir in the barbecue sauce and brown sugar; cook for an additional minute or two, then remove from the heat.
- Separate the biscuit dough into 8 biscuits. Flatten each biscuit slightly then press into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared muffin cups.
- Divide the beef mixture between each biscuit-lined cup. Sprinkle each with cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the biscuits are golden brown, about 10-12 minutes. Cool for 1 minute before removing from the muffin cups to serve.
Peabody says
My husband saw those somewhere once and has been begging me to make them ever since.
Cathy - wheresmydamnanswer says
Keep it simple and NORMAL!! You have it right. Life is to jam packed and crazy to do anything BUT keep it that way. As a crazy time challenged person I appreciate your recipes.
PheMom says
I’m with you, I’m all about scratch in baking, but my cooking takes more shortcuts. These sound really good!
~Holly says
Yummy! How much fun and easy too! 🙂
Kevin says
Those look so tasty!
noble pig says
You know we can’t make everything from scratch all the time. These look like a wonderful side dish meal! Thanks!
Maria says
Anything in mini is good! I am sure any kid would love these!!
Rosie says
Those look really lovely and sometimes we all need easy delicious food!
Rosie x
Ben says
Hey, this are my kind of recipes. Easy, real and delicious. I also try to avoid pre-packaged ingredients that contain too much crap, but we have to keep it real, right?
Nice recipe 🙂
Courtney says
i agree that its seems prepackaged food is not great in blogging world but sometimes it works and I sure know that my 18 month makes it hard to want to cook sometimes so I would rather that than like you said mcdonalds.
i have made these before and they are great.
ashley says
i generally try to avoid prepackaged products too like canned biscuits, but i’ve seen these a couple times and they really do look very tasty! maybe at our next game night…
Jenny says
Cute! We both had mini on the mind for out post! These look great to me!
Patsyk says
Those do look good! I’m all for making life easier, so if you have to use a packaged ingredient to get fast results then go for it!
My boys would totally love these. I’m marking this one as something I can reheat and stick in their thermos-type container for lunch at school! 🙂
Ryley says
Those do sound good and fast and easy.. The kind of seem like Sloppy joes in a cup!! And they reheated well too??? Hmmm.. Looks yummy to me!!! 🙂
p.s. are you in to cooking contests?? Are you entering any of the cooking contests at the fair this year????
The Mediocre Cook says
I don’t care what anyone says about pre-packaged products. These look really tasty and I think my kids would probably eat them… could be on tonight’s menu!
kat says
Those are totally fun! I can see my four little nephews just gobbling them up.