I am so in love with biscuits. I grew up on biscuits and gravy, and there is nothing like that delicious smell of fresh baked biscuits. I do still buy canned biscuits from the store every once in awhile, but I wanted a recipe that I could just make on the fly when there’s not enough money in the budget for canned. Plus, they taste SO much better! I found this recipe on AllRecipes awhile ago, and it’s such a simple recipe with ingredients I always keep on hand! Smother these biscuits with gravy, break them in half for a breakfast sandwich, or just eat plain. All of them.
What you need:
Flour
Baking powder
Salt
Sugar
Butter
Milk
Place the dry ingredients into a mixer and mix until just blended.
Cut in the butter, a little bit at a time, until the flour mixture becomes a bit coarse like shown above. Pour the milk in slowly until the dough just starts to peel off the bowl. The original recipe calls for one cup of milk, but I found it only takes 1/2 to 3/4 of the cup. Any more than that and it’s just too sticky to work with.
Place the dough on a floured surface and knead a few times, then roll out the dough and use a round cutter to make about 12 biscuits.
Why yes, I’m using an empty tuna can to cut my biscuits. Perfectly shaped, and frugal!
Place the cut biscuits onto a greased baking pan and bake for 13-15 minutes at 425 degrees.
The tops look a little light, but they’re perfectly done!
What a great way to start off my morning!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1/3 cup shortening or butter
- 1 cup (or less) milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a large bowl. Cut in the butter until the mixture becomes coarse.
- Slowly add in milk until the dough comes off the side of the bowl.
- Place dough on a floured surface and knead a few times, then roll out and cut into about 12 biscuits. Place biscuits onto a greased baking sheet.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes or until the biscuit tops are golden brown.
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These sound so delicious right now! This southern girl loves her some biscuits! 🙂
These look fab and easier than I would expect! Great recipe!
These look so good! :]! I’ve never tried making biscuits before, but you make it look easy! I need to get a mixer when I’m finally done moving all over the place!
Yum! Great instructions,and delicious looking pictures! Look forward to trying these sometime(:
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I have never made biscuits before but my hubby bought me some cute biscuit cutters for Christmas and I need to use them!