Fresh, hot out of the oven Buttermilk Biscuits are a great joy. Soft and buttery with flaky layers covered in butter and honey is always a great treat.
Growing up we used to get the biscuits out of the can that you bake at home and they were great, but once I started making my own, I’ll never return to the store-bought kind!
Homemade food is always better. You can control the ingredients and the quantities and you have the satisfaction that you make something good. That’s how these biscuits are. You don’t know what’s in the ones at the store but you do when you make them at home!
What are in Buttermilk biscuits?
Biscuits really only need five ingredients:
Buttermilk
The buttermilk really makes these biscuits soft and flaky. They don’t taste the same with water. If you don’t have buttermilk, you can make a substitute with the amount of milk called for in the recipe plus 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar.
The dry ingredients - flour, salt, baking powder
All-purpose flour, salt, and baking powder are the main dry ingredients you need for biscuits, but you could also add a bit of sugar to sweeten them.
Cold butter
The butter has to be cold in order to create the flaky layers in the biscuits, otherwise, the final biscuits will be a little tough and chewy.
How to Make Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
Start by preheating an oven to 400F, and line a 9 x 13 baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl add all the dry ingredients- all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar. Stir to combine.
Cut the cold butter into the flour to create coarse crumbles in the flour. They should be the size of peas.
Then add the buttermilk and stir with a fork until the dough comes together.
Knead the dough once or twice to create layers, then press the dough into the parchment-lined baking pan. Cut out the biscuits but don’t separate them.
Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with butter and honey.
Or alongside The Best Chili or your favorite soup. Enjoy!
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Buttery Buttermilk Biscuits
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 12 biscuits 1x
- Category: bread, Side Dish
- Cuisine: American
Description
Fresh, hot out of the oven Buttermilk Biscuits are a great joy. Soft and buttery with flaky layers covered in butter and honey is always a great treat.
Adapted from Magnolia Journal
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 - 2 teaspoon sugar
- ¾ cup cold, unsalted butter (1 ½ sticks)
- 1 - 1 ¼ cups Homemade buttermilk*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F degrees
- Mix together the dry ingredients - all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
- Cut the butter into the flour mixture with your hands until you have coarse crumbles of butter.
- Mix in the buttermilk, a little at a time, until the dough comes together.
- Gently knead the dough once or twice to create layers. Then press the dough flat into a baking pan, about 11x 9 rectangle about ½ inch thick.
- Cut out biscuits but don't separate.
- Bake in 400F degree oven for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
*You can make homemade buttermilk by adding a teaspoon of lemon juice to the milk.
Keywords: biscuits, Buttermilk, buttermilk biscuits
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