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BA Bake Club: Cheddar Biscuits With Old Bay

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Arts, Food

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This month, Bake Club takes inspiration from a popular chain restaurant for our own take on a beautiful, fluffy and cheesy biscuit that is transformed with the help of Old Bay seasoning. Hosts Shilpa Uskokovic and Jesse Szewczyk make the case for why biscuits are a must for any occasion. “Anything bread can do…a biscuit can do better,” says Shilpa. 

Jesse and Shilpa tackle listener questions and baker and writer Cheryl Day, a biscuit guru who made them everyday for 22 years in her bakery, stops by the clubhouse. Cheryl’s advice for the best biscuit is simple. “I would say: practice, practice, practice … then, take notes.”

We’d love to hear from you! Send your questions to BA Bake Club! Find us on Substack or send us a voice memo to bakeclub@bonappetit.com.

Links:
Garlic Bread Biscuits Recipe
An Ode to Old Bay, the Great American Condiment from The New Yorker
Old Bay Breakfast Potatoes
Peel ’n’ Eat Old Bay and Garlic Shrimp
Old Bay Chips With Lemon Mayo
Glazed Fried Chicken with Old Bay and Cayenne
Baltimore-Style Crab Cakes


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0:00.0

Getting the girls' trip out of the group chat just feels right.

0:03.6

The Fort Myers area delivers the memories, bonding, and let's do this every year energy.

0:08.3

Start planning at visit fort Myers.com.

0:14.6

I'm Jesse Sepchak.

0:20.2

And I'm Chopin' Oskokovic.

0:21.7

We are both senior test kitchen editors at Bon Appetit.

0:24.8

And this is BA Bake Club.

0:31.0

Bake club is Bonapit's community of confident, curious bakers.

0:35.1

We're creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet.

0:39.3

Every month, we publish a recipe on Bon Appetit.com

0:42.3

that introduces a baking concept that we think you should know.

0:46.3

Then you'll bake, send us any questions you have, or pictures of your finished creations.

0:51.3

And we'll get together here on the podcast to talk about the recipe.

0:55.0

The March Bake Club recipe for chocolate Guinness cake is live now on Bon Appetit.com.

1:01.0

And we'll tell you a little bit more about it at the end of this episode.

1:04.0

But today, we're going to be talking about a savory bake, the perfect, flaky, cheesy

1:09.0

accompaniment to any meal. Shilpa, it is your cheddar biscuits

1:12.4

with Old Bay. So, Shulpa, why these biscuits? Jesse, I feel like you'll have to answer the question.

1:18.7

It was a loaded question. Yes. The idea for the cheddar bay biscuits originally sprung from you.

1:26.2

It did. It did. It was the result of a long brainstorm.

1:30.0

I said, what if red lobster biscuits were flaky?

1:32.8

And then next thing you know, I was on vacation and the onus Philan Shilba to execute the idea.

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