Copycat Popeyes strawberry biscuits recipe is here! Fluffy buttermilk biscuits with fresh fruit inside for breakfast or a sweet side dish. Easy to bake in your oven or air fryer to a golden brown keeping the insides tender with a glaze drizzled over the top if you like.

A hand holding a strawberry biscuit with visible pieces of the luscious fruit, reminiscent of a delightful strawberry biscuit, against a light background.

Biscuits with strawberries are good. We have made these for years and then we recently saw that Popeyes was selling their own version. Tasted one of theirs and boy so they taste similar to one another so we thought we'd write up how we make them. (affiliate links present)

Popeyes Strawberry Biscuits Recipe

Of course they don't disclose the ingredients or step by step of how they make theirs. All we can share is how we've done it all these years because like we said they taste almost the same so we guess it was time to do a write up on them. During the summer months you may have the main ingredient growing right in your backyard.

You can see ours below and of course freshly picked is ideal, store bought works too. There is a local farm nearby us too so in years when we didn't have a great growing season we would grab a box full there and wouldn't last long.

Strawberry Biscuits with Buttermilk

Now these biscuits offer a good touch of sweetness with this delicate fruit inside. You do need to wait until the end to integrate them for the solid combination with our classic dough and your fresh strawberries. And to make them super tender you want buttermilk!!

In addition to that make sure you're using firmer pieces that aren't super duper ripe or they will fall apart and get a bit mushy. Instead save those to slice and serve on top of our 2 Ingredient Strawberry Cake!

Ingredients

3 c all purpose flour + 1/4 more possibly
1 tbsp baking powder will help them rise
Sugar for a bit of sweetness of course
Baking soda for leavening
1 tsp salt a pinch actually makes them sweeter
2 sticks butter cold, cut into cubes or shredded, 1 cup
Buttermilk is better than milk for moisture purposes or make Sour Cream Biscuits
1/4 c heavy whipping cream for the same reasons
1 c strawberries chopped

We have tips of how to make buttermilk with milk and an acid in the recipe card below too. We don't always have it at home so this trick comes in handy. Linked in the recipe ingredient list. You can surely enjoy these with your family feast add a fun sweetness to any meal but typically we have them in the morning.

We don't always have time to make them homemade, we get it. In that case you could use that big yellow box that you normally use to make pancakes, and fold the fruit in at the end. In that case you would make them by

How to Make Strawberry Biscuits with Bisquick

2 1/4 cups Bisquick baking mix
2/3 cup milk or non dairy product
add 1/2 cup of sweet flavor of ripe fruity berries is added to these normally classic buttery biscuits

Gently fold together the first two ingredients in a large bowl until incorporated, NO more or they will not be as fluffy. Then fold in berries of choice like our Blueberry Biscuits too and make drop biscuits without rolling out at all.

Put them with space in between them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 425 and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and no longer wet in the middle. In the summer months we will eat one of these with a powdered sugar glaze on top with a glass of Strawberry Hibiscus Sweet Tea. OMG is that such a great duo!

You could do the same thing with other berries or seasonings like our Cinnamon Biscuits. Remember that fruits should be on the firmer side, blueberries work well. Things like raspberries or blackberries are juicier and will break apart and ooze more than others.

How to Make Popeyes Strawberry Biscuits

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl whisk together dry ingredients.
Incorporate cold butter that has been shredded on a box grater into the bowl.
Mix with a spoon. Then use a pastry cutter to combine until you get a shaggy mixture.
Add buttermilk and heavy cream fold together 4 times, pour in diced strawberries and combine gently with a spoon or spatula until dry ingredients are incorporated, NO longer. Over-mixing will make them not as fluffy.
lightly flour a cutting board and dump dough out on to it. Use hands to combine all dough into one lump. Then gently use a rolling pin to roll out so all the way across it is 1 inch thick.
Use a large biscuit cutter and press down (do not twist), place biscuit dough rounds on prepared baking sheet. BEST RESULTS = put tray in freezer for 15 minutes before baking.
Brush tops with a bit of buttermilk
Bake for 18 minutes – 20 or until middle is no longer doughy and outsides are lightly browned.

You'll find these are easy biscuits and the flavor is out of this world. To add a simple glaze whisk together 1 cup powdered sugar with enough liquid of choice to thin like lemon juice or milk works.

biscuits with strawberries on a wooden tray, surrounded by fresh strawberries and a striped cloth, resemble delightful strawberry biscuits ready for a morning treat.

How to Make Strawberry Biscuits without Buttermilk

We have found a great plant based alternative by Country Crock we use for our husband who needs dairy-free vegan options. The sticks are a bit softer but either way we suggest you freeze butter so we would do the same for these. Shred with a grater into the bowl and incorporate with your hands. Make vegan buttermilk by combining unsweetened almond milk with 1 tbsp. lemon juice and set aside for 10 minutes to curdle a bit.

What does Popeyes strawberry biscuit taste like?

It has a sweet classic and spicy (a tad) flavor to it with the fruit and crispy dough on the outside. A fun addition to their chicken dinner BUT we will show you how to make copycat Popeyes biscuits with berries in it here too!!

What's in the Strawberry Biscuits at Popeyes?

Their strawberries strawberry biscuits offer a sweetness with little bits of strawberry pieces baked inside a small biscuit. With a scone consistency it is not super fluffy inside but pretty tasty. Other than that the ingredients in Popeyes strawberry biscuits is typical to how you'd make them at home.

Copycat Popeyes Strawberry Biscuits

By Copycat Popeyes strawberry biscuit recipe is here! Fluffy buttermilk biscuits homemade or with Bisquick and fresh fruit inside for breakfast or sweet side dish. Prep: 20 minutes minsCook: 18 minutes minsServings: 12 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

3 c all purpose flour, + 1/4 more possibly
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 sticks butter cold, cut into cubes or shredded, 1 cup
1 c buttermilk
1/4 c heavy whipping cream
1 c strawberries, chopped

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl whisk together all dry ingredients. Add in diced cold butter or shred on a box grater into the bowl. Mix with a spoon. Then use a pastry cutter to combine until you get a shaggy mixture.
Add buttermilk and heavy cream, fold in 4 times, pour in diced strawberries and combine gently with a spoon or spatula until dry ingredients are incorporated, NO longer. Over-mixing will make them not as fluffy.
lightly flour a cutting board and dump dough out on to it. Use hands to combine all dough into one lump. Then gently use a rolling pin to roll out so all the way across it is 1 inch thick.
Use a large biscuit cutter and press down (do not twist), place biscuit dough rounds on prepared baking sheet. BEST RESULTS = put tray in freezer for 15 minutes before baking.
Brush tops with a bit of buttermilk and bake for 18 minutes – 20 or until middle is no longer doughy and outsides are lightly browned.