This Southern Staple Is Popping Up In Costco's Bakery — Just In Time For Fall

Fall is the perfect time of year to start shifting toward cozier foods. After a hot summer, it's only natural to crave heartier foods like stews and casseroles as the temperatures begin to drop — and nothing is quite as cozy as a warm buttermilk biscuit drowning in classic Southern sausage gravy. Luckily for Costco members, or for those who loathe making them from scratch, Costco has recently begun making buttermilk biscuits in-house. 

There are a lot of Costco bakery items to buy, but the biscuits are one of its newest additions. Priced at $6.99 for a 10-pack, they're made with real buttermilk, which lends a bit of a tang to the large, fluffy biscuits. Like all biscuits, the bakery item is best eaten as fresh as possible, but there are heating instructions for both the oven and microwave for an optimal experience. Unfortunately for butter-loving biscuit purists, Costco's buttermilk biscuits lack additional butter.

Biscuits are not always made with butter, and sometimes shortening or other fats are used; however, butter usually gives biscuits the best flavor. Costco's buttermilk biscuits use both palm oil and palm kernel oil as the fat cut into the flour mixture, so those who prefer a butter-based biscuit may be disappointed in Costco's offering.

One Reddit user posted in August 2026 that they purchased a batch of buttermilk biscuits at a Texas Costco. They said that the biscuits were "quite large, and very fluffy straight out of the microwave. I ate them with butter, but these would definitely be great with some gravy." Another Reddit user responded and said the buttermilk biscuits were "massive" and "fluffy" but, if you don't consume them within 24 hours of bringing them home, "they dry out quickly and are best used for biscuits and gravy." They recommended eating them within three days.

In the comments of an Instagram Reel posted by Costco enthusiast @costcofinds, people did not share the same enthusiasm over the in-house biscuits. One user said that they "look dry enough to use as car tires." Another commented on how easy it is to make better biscuits yourself at home: "Biscuits are one of the easiest (and cheapest) things to make. Let's re-normalize making the things we can!" If you prefer to make them yourself, or if you can't get your hands on the latest Costco bakery craze, fear not — you can recreate them at home with Tasting Table's fluffy Southern buttermilk biscuits recipe.