Almost-Famous Cheddar Biscuits

If you could travel back in time to visit the original Red Lobster restaurant when it opened in Lakeland, FL, in 1968, you’d barely recognize the place: There were few seaside motifs, no popcorn shrimp, and, most shocking, there weren’t any Cheddar Bay Biscuits in the breadbasket. The now-famous freebies were introduced decades later, in 1991, replacing plain old garlic bread. Today, diners at the chain’s 680 locations consume more than 7 million of the warm, cheesy biscuits every week, yet readers like Curtis Swineford, from Middleburg, PA, still can’t get enough of them. He wrote to us asking for the recipe, so we called the restaurant’s Orlando, FL, headquarters to get it — with no luck. Undeterred, Food Network Kitchens developed these spot-on copies.

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet