Easy Homemade Biscuits
Soft, flaky, and buttery, these Easy Homemade Biscuits are made with just a few pantry ingredients in 30 minutes. Keep this perfect biscuit recipe on hand year-round to complete any breakfast or dinner.See below the recipe card for step-by-step images.
Servings: 6 biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp coarse salt
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter very well chilled
- ¾ cup cold full-fat buttermilk (or more, as needed), or whole milk, avoid 2%, skim, or non-dairy alternatives
Instructions
- Place the butter in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 425°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt until combined.
- Using a box grater, shred the chilled butter over the flour mixture, then stir to coat. Cut in the butter with your hands (or a pastry blender) until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add the cold buttermilk and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined, being sure to incorporate anything on the bottom of the bowl, too (careful not to over-work the dough).
- Transfer your biscuit dough to a well-floured surface and use your hands to gently work the dough together. (If the dough is too sticky, add a bit of flour until it is manageable. Alternatively, add just a touch more buttermilk if it seems overly dry.)
- Fold the dough in half over itself and use your hands to gently flatten the layers together. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and fold in half again, repeating this step 5 more times but taking care to not overwork the dough.
- Use your hands (do not use a rolling pin) to flatten the dough to a 1" thickness and lightly dust a 2 & 3/4-inch round biscuit cutter with flour.
- Making cuts as close together as possible, press the biscuit cutter straight down into the dough and drop the biscuit onto your prepared baking sheet.
- Repeat until you have gotten as many biscuits as possible and place on the baking sheet with space in between. (Gently re-work the dough to get out another biscuit or two until you have at least 6 biscuits.)
- Bake for 12 minutes or until tops are beginning to just turn lightly golden brown.
- Right out of the oven, brush with a bit of melted butter. Serve warm and enjoy.
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Nutrition
Calories: 280kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 423mg | Potassium: 291mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 399IU | Calcium: 131mg | Iron: 2mg