Whether for breakfast or weeknight meal these Buttermilk biscuits are the best. Filled with butter and buttermilk makes these biscuits light and fluffy. Adding additional ingredients to the dough like cheese and garlic will also make these biscuits more than for breakfast rolls. Your family will love these soft, tender buttermilk flavored biscuits.
Because these are so good, make two batches and freeze one to have for a quick bake. To freeze the biscuits. Roll and cut dough, place unbaked biscuits in a freezer bag and freeze until ready to bake. Preheat oven to 400 while biscuits thaw slightly. Place biscuits in un-greased cast iron skillet bake 15- 20 minutes. If you use a square baking pan, lightly grease with cooking spray.
I used a round 2″ cookie cutter to cut the biscuits but you can always place the dough into a square pan and bake as one entire piece and cut after baking. This biscuit recipe makes a great topping for chicken pot pie or other biscuit type casseroles.
Best Baking Biscuit Tip: Bake in Cast Iron Skillet
Best Big Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe
This is a tender soft inside crusty outside buttery biscuit that can be made plain or with added ingredients such as cheese, spices & herbs, or cooked meats.
- Yield: 6-2"biscuits or 12- 1" 1x
- Category: Bread
Ingredients
2–cups bread flour
1-tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2– tablespoons sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup butter, frozen and grated
1/2 cup buttermilk or half and half
1-tablespoon butter, melted
For Cheddar Cheese biscuit use same ingredients as stated but add 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar Cheese and 2 Tablespoons buttermilk. If biscuits are too dry add more buttermilk if too wet add either more cheese or bread flour. Dough after kneading two or three times will be the right consistency for rolling and cutting. Dip cutter in flour and push straight down into dough do not twist cutter to keep biscuits upright while baking.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Grate butter with largest grate, place in freezer to set about 10 minutes.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sour cream, and salt in a large bowl.
- Cut frozen butter into the flour mixture with two knives or pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Add the buttermilk to flour/butter mixture a little at a time. Stir until dough forms a ball, but do not over mix the dough.
- On floured surface, turn out the dough and roll out to 1-inch thickness.
- Using a 2 ½”-3” round biscuit cutter or rim of glass cut the biscuits and place in non greased skillet, or parchment lined baking pan.
- Bake biscuits in middle rack of oven for 20 minutes or until light brown.
- Remove from oven and brush tops with melted butter, return to oven for 5 minutes to a golden brown color.
- If biscuit tops brown too quickly cover with foil and continue baking.
Notes
Helpful Hints for Best Biscuits:
- Grate the butter straight from the refrigerator onto a piece of wax paper and put in freezer to firm up-5-10 minutes.
- Use the larger grated pieces of butter, instead of the smaller pieces .
- The thicker the dough when rolling out the longer the biscuit needs to bake.
- The thicker the dough before cutting out the taller the biscuit will be.
- Avoid excess flour when rolling out the dough.
- Gently knead the dough 3-4 times to get a smooth top. Biscuits will be dry if you overwork the chilled dough.
- Use bread flour to make the texture light and fluffy. These are not gluten free biscuits.
- Bake biscuits in preheated hot oven.
- Recipe inspired by Tupelo Honey cookbook
Recipe inspired by Tupelo Honey cookbook
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In conclusion: Tips for Better Biscuits
Biscuits are easy to make, just don’t overwork the dough or use too much flour. You want a cold wet dough, not soupy like a drop biscuit but enough flour to roll out and cut.
Chilling the butter, then using a hand grater to grate into small pieces will help with the mealy texture you need for the dough batter. After grating the butter, place in the freezer for about 10 minutes to slightly freeze, this will make your biscuits flaky and delicious.
A hot preheated oven is a must.
As mentioned baking in a cast iron skillet really makes the biscuits have a crunchy bottom and brown top with tender inside.
Last, Sour cream with buttermilk and tablespoon of baking powder will give you lift and tenderness you will love.
Enjoy! This is a great recipe inspired by Tupelo Honey Cookbook.
Other Ideas you might like to try:
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