I love biscuits. I’m not from the South but I still just love biscuits…is that allowed! 🙂 Mom used to whip them up now and then to go with dinner and I would slather them with butter and jam… aahh, yum! This time I wanted to try a new recipe with buttermilk – hoping to find one that was flaky and buttery and delicious. Well I’ll tell ya, this one I found on All Recipes is THE winner. It is fantastic!! I think I had about 4 straight out of the oven (I choose not to think about fat grams at times like that). The bit of honey in the ingredients gives them just a hint of sweetness. They are incredibly flaky due to the way you fold the dough over on itself several times – genius! I also think they turned out so well for me this time because I broke my pastry blender so I had to cut the butter into the flour with two knives. I was so bugged with the tediousness of it that I thought I quit a little early since the butter seemed to be in kind of big chunks! Obviously it was just right and to be honest I think I usually cut it in way too much… ok I admit it, I definitely do! I remember Mom telling me often “oh honey, that’s a little too much but it’s ok – I’m sure it will still be delicious”!! 🙂 So learn from my mistakes and don’t cut the butter in too much. Also minimize how much you handle the dough, otherwise you’ll end up with tough biscuits!
PrintFlaky Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (9 ounces)
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into small pieces
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl; cut in butter with a pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Chill 10 minutes.
- Combine buttermilk and honey, stirring with a whisk until well blended. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until moist.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead lightly 4 times. Roll dough into a (1/2-inch-thick) 9 x 5–inch rectangle; dust top of dough with flour. Fold dough crosswise into thirds (as if folding a piece of paper to fit into an envelope). Reroll dough into a (1/2-inch-thick) 9 x 5–inch rectangle; dust top of dough with flour. Fold dough crosswise into thirds; gently roll or pat to a 3/4-inch thickness. Cut dough with a 1 3/4-inch biscuit cutter to form 14 dough rounds. Place dough rounds, 1 inch apart, on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 400° for 12 minutes or until golden. Remove from pan; cool 2 minutes on wire racks. Serve warm.
I am so sorry you were confused! Its is one of my goals for the summer—to learn to create videos!!
It would be really useful if we had the video tutorial of the process. I got. A little confused over the kneading process
Dear Sisters,
Thank you very much for this recipe! I am baking them for the fourth time now – within two days…i have tried to freeze them unbaked and it also works perfect.
Thank you very much and kind regards from Germany!
Doris
Amazingly easy & delicious! I never bake biscuits because they seem like so much work. These were simple & quick. I will make be making them again…Thanx!
I have been looking for a great biscuit recipe for years and had given up. I made these tonight and they are amazing!!! Finally a biscuit that is soft all around and doesn’t have a hard exterior! After I made the first batch I made another four to freeze and have on hand. Thank you Thank you for finally bringing my biscuit recipe search to an end.!
These were great!!! I’m making them for the 2nd time this morning. Last time I shared them with an older man from the south who grew up on, “Cornbread, pinto beans, and biscuits ‘n gravy” He said that these were the best he had ever had!
I'll have to try this recipe. I need to use up the buttermilk in my fridge.
p.s. My dad used to use an upended glass dipped in flour as his circular biscuit cutter!
Hi Anonymous, I am so sorry they didn't turn out for you! What a bummer. So they were cracker like? I assume you checked your ingredients and amounts. Maybe your baking powder was old. Or perhaps the dough was overworked…the oven too hot… did you chill the flour/butter mixture before stirring in the buttermilk? Gosh, I have no idea. I wonder if it was a fluke. I would try again. They always work out great for me. Especially if I don't cut the butter in too small. Also a tip that makes them extra fluffy is not too roll out too thin – even when your layering/folding – just lightly roll out. Anyway, good luck and I apologize for not getting this comment earlier! Take care, Britt
Hi PCox, I wish I could answer your question but I have never frozen these biscuits!! Let me know if it works out though – i would love to know. good luck!
Hi girls!!
I'm making these tonight and I'm curious if they'll still turn out if I freeze them the same way as your Freezer Biscuits and bake them in the morning. Let me know your thoughts please.
Thanks!!
Just stumbled upon your website and made these biscuits…they are AMAZING!!! Can't wait to try more of your recipes!
I have made several breads off your site and they all turn out amazing!!! Not these, though….mine were cracker like. What did I do wrong?? Yours look so wonderful!!!
I made these tonight and they were Marvelous! Thanks sis! I have to confess mine weren't nearly as beautiful as yours – but maybe with some practice I will get award winning gorgeous biscuits like you!
Hi! I had to tell you that I absolutely love your square bisquits! My dad is an Oakie and I have been taught how to make some great bisquits, but your square ones, look amazing and "food-couture"
Happy Baking ~ Shawna
Brittany, those look fab! And I totally wouldn't make them round. They look like they are from some fancy restaurant cut square. I can't wait to try them!
Britt, I think these might be the most appetizing things I've ever seen on our blog! Seriously, my mouth is watering. These should be on the cover of a magazine. 🙂 They look amazing. I'm definitely going to go with a square shape from now on. So cute.
These looks so good. I am bookmarking this recipe right now. I love the square shape. I think I'll give it a try.
My 12-year-old daughter is begging me to make these now. These seriously look just amazing!
They look great! And I was thinking how cute they were square!
I made your buttermilk rolls today and they were heavenly! I'll bet this one's good too. Can't wait to try it.
mmmm these look so good! I am going to have to make them–especially now that I am in the south!!
WOW!!!! These look fantastic!! SERIOUSLY!! This is what I dream my biscuits would look like!! Ok I have to try these!!!
Ohhhhhh….I'm going to have to try this because it doesn't have any yeast in it. I am horrible at making anything with yeast in it
🙁 Looks like a great recipe!
Ohhhh those look amazing! I am pretty sure I would eat them all!
Oh those do look good, and I love how simple they are. Of course you can love biscuits, we southerners are all about sharing lol. Want some sweet tea with that? 🙂 Thanks for the recipe.