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How to Make the BEST Biscuits.

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Easy homemade biscuits with 5 ingredients you have in your pantry. These are the fluffiest biscuits I've ever had, and you can freeze them, and pull out as needed!

You heard me! The BEST biscuits. A southern woman is known by a few things: 

  1. her home
  2. her pimento cheese
  3. her biscuits

{Just a side note. I have been sitting on this post for MONTHS…. I literally panic when I start to claim the best biscuits…. But, they are pretty damn good, so I’m going with it.}

Easy homemade biscuits with 5 ingredients you have in your pantry. These are the fluffiest biscuits I've ever had, and you can freeze them, and pull out as needed!

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A few simple ingredients, gently mixed together to create perfect layers, great for slathering extra butter, honey, jam, and preserves. 

I make tiny biscuits — using a two inch square cutter — two bite biscuits, if you will! 

Fluffy biscuits made at home, with the easiest ingredients

My absolute, hands down, number one tip for biscuits is:

“HAPPY HANDS CLUB”

Use gentle fingers, and snap your butter into the flour. Maybe someday I’ll share a video of how I snap my biscuits together….

But, in the meantime. I’ll talk you through the process…

Easy homemade biscuits with 5 ingredients you have in your pantry. These are the fluffiest biscuits I've ever had, and you can freeze them, and pull out as needed!

Here’s the printable recipe, and all you need to know to get perfect, fluffy, homemade biscuits every time!

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Sweetpea’s Biscuits

  • Author: Ashley @ Sweetpea Lifestyle
  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 15
  • Total Time: 30

Description

Simple baking powder biscuits, gently kneaded into the fluffiest biscuits, ever!


Ingredients

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  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 5 tablespoons cold butter, cut into pieces
  • 3/4 cup cold buttermilk (see notes!)


Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450˚
  2. In a large mixing bowl, sift flour, salt, and baking powder together.
  3. Add your cold butter, and using a gentle “snapping” motion, cut butter into flour until small pieces form.
  4. Add the cold buttermilk, and fold dough on itself over and over until combined.
  5. Dump out onto a floured work surface, and press out until 1/2 inch thick.
  6. Cut into 2″ squares, placing on sheet tray. Make sure the biscuits touch each other.
  7. Bake at 450˚ until golden brown, about 15 minutes, depending on your oven. I like to set my timer for 12 minutes, then starting peeking.
  8. Serve hot out of the oven with plenty of extra butter, jam, honey, preserves, etc!

Notes

  • If you don’t have buttermilk on hand, add a splash of white vinegar, and wait a few minutes.
  • If you’re feeling frisky, you can coat the biscuits with melted butter before you bake them.
  • You can freeze the biscuits, before you bake them. I place them 1″ apart on a sheet tray and flash freeze. Then, dump into a freezer safe bag and pull out however many I need at the time. Bake frozen biscuits the same way as above.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 24
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This recipe also works if you wanted a sweet version for peach shortcake! Just add a tablespoon of sugar, and you’ve got great shortcakes. Add some currants or other dried fruit, and cut into scones for tea time! You can even go savory, and add shredded cheddar, ham, chives, bacon, etc and have a meal in itself… <—- YUM

These are the perfect addition to any breakfast casserole, like my Keto Egg Bake…. Or, on the side for any dinner. This is the same recipe I used in my Biscuit Bar I hosted a couple years ago… what a fun day! 

You can save this recipe to your favorite Breakfast Pinterest board!

Easy homemade biscuits

Do you have a tried and true biscuit recipe!?

Cheers, to Biscuit Heaven!

XOXO,

sweetpea lifestyle

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3 Comments

  1. This is definitely a Southern style biscuit recipe and I just hit Print! My kids love real homemade biscuits, but I haven’t found a tried and true recipe. I’m excited to give yours a try. The tiny 2-inch biscuit bites are so cute. #HomeMattersParty

  2. I remember biscuits being the first thing I learned to make in home ec and I loved making them! So yummy. I’m going to have to make these asap to go with my homemade preserves.

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