Easy Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe

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5 from 4 votes

Easy Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe

a perfect recipe & guide for buttermilk biscuits

Prep Time20

Cook Time15

Servings: biscuits

Author: Sam Maccini

Equipment

baking sheet or cast iron

Ingredients

12 tablespoon (1&½ sticks) unsalted butter cold, cut into cubes
3 & ¼ cup all purpose flour spooned & leveled
2 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoon honey or sugar
1 cup cold buttermilk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400° & cut your cold butter into cubes. set in freezer up to 15 minutes to ensure it stays cold.
Make the dough: In large bowl, add dry ingredients (all purpose flour, salt, baking powder) & whisk together. squeeze the butter pieces and toss them in flour. Smush and break up the butter. Continuously toss in the flour. Repeat until all putter pieces have been broken up & are in varying sizes. Pour in cold buttermilk & honey. Mix up until buttermilk is absorbed & dough is shaggy.
Food Processor: add flour, baking powder, salt & sugar. Pulse 1-2 times. Add cold, cut butter. Pulse until the butter is in varying sized chunks - some pea sized and some larger. Next, pour in cold buttermilk & honey. Pulse a few more times until dough is shaggy. & buttermilk is absorbed.
Fold Biscuit Dough: Turn biscuit dough out onto the table and press it all into a large square. Cut the square into fours. Pile them on top of each other and press down into another square. Repeat this process 3-4 more times until the dry flour bits are all gone and it is a dough with visible butter chunks and layers. Shape it into a rectangle or square & cut the biscuits with a knife into 9 squares. Cut as many as you can using a biscuit cutter or circle cookie cutter. Be sure not to twist as you cut.
Bake Biscuits: Place biscuit pieces on a baking sheet or cast iron nestled next to each other. Baste the tops of the biscuits lightly before baking. Bake biscuits 15-20 minutes until biscuits are risen, flaky & golden. Brush with melted butter as they come out of the oven.

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