Sloppy Joe Cups Recipe with Refrigerated Biscuits and Cheese (2024)

Tasty sloppy joe cups are fun to make and are a great treat for kids after school. The sloppy joe cups recipe uses biscuits to make this classic dinner.

Sloppy Joe Cups have all the flavor of the classic sandwich in an easier to eat package – a biscuit – and topped with yummy cheese. This recipe for sloppy joe cups with flaky biscuits is an all-time kid favorite.

This recipe is perfect for when you have leftover sloppy joe meat. We’ve been known to double our sloppy joe recipe on the weekend so that we could have extra to make these later in the week.

Sloppy Joe Cups with Flaky Biscuits

What’s better than classic sloppy joe? Sloppy Joe meat tucked into a flaky biscuit and then topped with melted cheese.

This sloppy joe biscuit recipe comes to us from another one of our hometown cookbooks, like our Crock Pot Calico Beans, but this time the 1988 version of the Extension Homemakers Shelby County (Indiana) Cookbook.

These Sloppy Joe Cups are super simple to make but will be a hit with the entire family – adults and children!

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Recipe Options

You’ve got three options for this easy dinner recipe with biscuits.

1. Use up that leftover sloppy joe in the refrigerator.
2. Start from scratch with this super simple sloppy joe recipe using BBQ sauce, ketchup, brown sugar and lemon juice.
3. Try a shortcut ingredient such as Manwich Original Sloppy Joe Sauce.

Either way, these biscuit filled sloppy joes are beyond easy to make.

What do I need to make Sloppy Joe Cups?

Sloppy Joe Biscuit Cups Ingredient List

• Ground Beef
• Ketchup
• BBQ Sauce, your favorite brand
• Brown Sugar
• Lemon Juice (or white vinegar)
• Flaky Refrigerated Biscuit Dough
• Shredded Cheese, your favorite type (Cheddar Cheese works great.)

Recipe FAQs

• Be sure to grab the flaky style refrigerated biscuits (but not the jumbo size). The recipe makes eightSloppy Joe Cups but be sure to use a regular-size muffin tin– not the mini muffin tins.
• You will need to press the biscuits into the tin because each cup gets a good-size scoop of the meat mixture.
• Use regular-size muffin cups.
• A regular sized ice cream scoop is the perfect amount of sloppy joe filling.
• If you don’t have Colby Jack cheese, just use your favorite cheese. You can’t go wrong with cheese!
• Don’t be afraid to let the sides of the biscuits get golden brown while in the oven. This will ensure that the bottom and sides are baked through as well.
• While we don’t think you will have leftovers, Barbara does say these re-heat nicely for an easy workday lunch or a quick evening meal. Just add a salad or your favorite vegetable as a side and you are ready to go.
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How to Make Sloppy Biscuit Bombs

Step By Step Instructions

1. In a large skillet, cook beef; drain excess grease from ground beef, if needed.
2. Add ketchup, BBQ sauce, brown sugar and lemon juice (or use leftover sloppy Joes); stir to mix well.
3. Press biscuits into greased muffin tin.
4. Divide meat mixture, and fill biscuits with sloppy joes.
5. Bake until golden brown approximately 10 minutes.
6. Remove from oven, sprinkle with shredded cheese.
7. Turn oven off, return sloppy joe biscuit bombs to the oven for a few minutes until cheese is melted.

Storage Instruction

Let leftovers cool completely. Store in an airtight container, and store in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Full recipe steps and ingredient amounts for biscuits filled with saucy meat is below in the recipe card.

Recipe Variations

• I like a squirt of mustard of yellow mustard in my sloppy joe sauce.
• Add diced veggies such as bell pepper or celery with the ground beef.
• Substitute ground turkey for ground beef.
• Season with onion powder or garlic powder for more flavor.
• Any type of cheese works on top.

What can I make with ground beef other than sloppy Joes?

• Old Fashioned Stuffed Bell Peppers
• Ground Beef Burritos
• Old Fashioned Hamburger Noodle Casserole
• Homemade Hamburger Helper
• Mom’s Hamburger Gravy
• Cheeseburger Quiche
• Ground Beef Stuffed Squash
• Green Beans and Ground Beef
• Hamburger Pork and Bean Skillet
• Crock Pot Calico Beans
• Hamburger Vegetable Soup with V8 Juice
• French Onion Hamburger Pie

Sloppy Joe Recipes

As you can see below, we are big fans of Sloppy Joe recipes and feature several versions on the blog. We also love these Handheld Sloppy Joe Sticksfrom Beyer Beware.

Classic Sloppy Joes

Easy Sloppy Joes

French Onion Joes

Frisco Melt Sloppy Joes