homemade red lobster buscuits

how to make homemade red lobster biscuits. now I don't go to red lobster often but when i do go what I look forward to the most in the biscuits they serve you right when you are seated. most restaurants just give you a basket of rolls or sliced bread with butter but red lobster gives you delicious biscuits with butter and seasonings on top. what I recently discovered was that they have a box you can buy as the store to make these biscuits. so my family and I did so and what we discovered is that the biscuit, before you add any of the seasonings on top, are almost exactly like the homemade biscuits my mom makes. the buttery topping is just an easy melted butter and seasonings mixture so we thought wouldn't it just be cheaper to make then ourselves? so that's exactly what we did.
tip/step: I never know where to put this step because it all depends on your timing. you need to pre heat the oven for 450 degrees for 10 minutes before you but the biscuits into the oven.
step one: in a bowl stir together 2 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1/2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, 1/4 teaspoons of salt.
step two: add in 1/2 cup of shortening, margarine or butter until the mixture looks big soft crumbs (small balls of butter coated with dry ingredients)
tip: use a pie crust cutter to mix in the stiff butter.
step three: make a well by pushing dough to the sides of the bowl making a hole in the middle of the mixture.

if you have ever had regular homemade biscuits and red lobster biscuits you know that besides the butter seasoning the red lobster biscuits have cheese on the inside. so when adding the milk you also add in cheese

step four: pour 2/3 cups of milk and 1/2 cups of shredded cheese into the well and stir until dough is sticking together.

for most roll recipes the next step would be to roll dough onto a floured surface and cut into the desired shape but to make these biscuits like the red lobster biscuits you need to use the drop biscuit method. these type of biscuits will be more of a lumpy texture.

step five: use a large table spoon to drop dough onto baking sheet.
step six: bake biscuits in oven for 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes or till golden .
step seven: when biscuits come out of oven immediately cover them in the butter sauce and they sit too cool

butter and seasoning topping:
depending on your preference of portions this could change but the main ingredients are:
melted butter
garlic powder
parsley
onion powder
salt
or if you prefer to replace the garlic, onion, and salt you can use garlic salt and onion salt.
once the mixture is made you paint it onto the warm biscuits after the come out of the oven and let cool

I hope you enjoy this recipe and as I have said before, homemade is always better. unless of course you have no idea what you are doing, so I hope this helps you do it right. enjoy!