dessertbaking30 minutes
Homemade Biscuits from Scratch
Buttery, soft, and made completely from scratch, this easy homemade biscuit recipe deserves a permanent place in your recipe repertoire.
From YouTube · Apr 25, 2018
Buttery, soft, and made completely from scratch, this easy homemade biscuit recipe deserves a permanent place in your recipe repertoire.
15 min
Prep time
12 min
Cook time
27 min
Total time
6
Yield
Ingredients
6 ingredients- 2 cups all-purpose flour ((250g))
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter (very cold (85g), unsalted European butter is ideal, but not required)
- ¾ cup whole milk¹ ((177ml) buttermilk or 2% milk will also work)
Method
15 steps- Chill your butter in the freezer for 10-20 minutes before beginning this recipe.
- Preheat oven to 425F and line a cookie sheet with nonstick parchment paper.
- Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large bowl and mix well.
- Remove your butter from the refrigerator and shred it into small pieces using a box grater, then add to the flour mixture and stir until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add milk, and stir with a wooden spoon or spatula until combined, being careful not to over-work the dough.
- Transfer the biscuit dough to a well-floured surface and gently work the dough together with your hands. If too sticky, add flour until manageable.
- Fold the dough in half over itself and gently flatten layers together. Rotate 90 degrees and fold in half again, repeating 5-6 times without overworking.
- Use your hands to flatten the dough to 1
- thick and lightly dust a 2 3/4" , 0.06985,
- round biscuit cutter with flour.
- Cut out biscuits, placing them less than 1/2" , 0.0127,
- apart on the baking sheet.
- Re-work the dough to make at least 6 biscuits.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until tops are lightly golden brown.
- Remove from oven and brush with melted salted butter if desired. Serve warm.
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