Easy Homemade Biscuits
These easy homemade biscuits are fluffy, buttery, and made from scratch using six ingredients.
I was making a big pot of chicken soup for dinner and wanted to pair it with some easy homemade biscuits instead of our regular no-knead rustic bread. I found a recipe on Natasha’s Kitchen that sounded easy, plus I already had all of the ingredients on hand. I love that these biscuits are ready and on the table within 30 minutes and taste buttery and delicious. These easy homemade biscuits paired nicely with our chicken soup, and they were also very tasty with some raspberry freezer jam slathered on top!
Easy Homemade Biscuits
Biscuits:
- ½ cup unsalted butter, diced into ½-inch pieces **Keep it very cold
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sugar
- ¾ tsp salt (fine sea salt)
- 1 cup – MINUS 2 tbsp half and half **You can also use equal parts heavy cream and whole milk
For Brushing after Baking:
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
How to Make Easy Homemade Biscuits:
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Make the dough by dicing the butter into ½-inch cubes, then return to the refrigerator until needed. Side Note: The butter needs to be very cold.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together in a large mixing bowl until well combined.
Cut the cold diced butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter until the largest butter pieces are pea-sized.
Add 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons of half and half all at once and stir until the mixture comes together and is mostly moistened. Do not over-mix.
Fold dough & cut biscuits by turning the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Side Note: If dough is too sticky, lightly sprinkle the top with a bit of flour.
Pat the dough into a rectangle, then fold it in half and pat into another rectangle.
Fold it a second time and pat into a 5″x10″ rectangle or ¾” thickness. Â
Using a 2½” round biscuit cutter, cut 8 biscuits out of the dough. Pull the scraps together, form into a rectangle, and cut out 2-3 more biscuits.
Place the biscuits on the prepared baking sheet.
Bake the biscuits by placing the baking sheet into the oven and baking for 11-14 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown and the biscuits are baked through.
Remove from the oven and brush with melted butter. Serve immediately and enjoy.
Equipment
Ingredients
Biscuits:
- ½ cup unsalted butter, diced into ½-inch pieces **Keep it very cold
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sugar
- ¾ tsp salt (fine sea salt)
- 1 cup - MINUS 2 tbsp half and half **You can also use equal parts heavy cream and whole milk
For Brushing after Baking:
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Make the dough by dicing the butter into ½-inch cubes, then return it to the refrigerator until needed. Side Note: The butter needs to be very cold.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together in a large mixing bowl until well combined.
- Cut the cold diced butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter until the largest butter pieces are pea-sized.
- Add 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons of half-and-half all at once and stir until the mixture comes together and is mostly moistened. Do not over-mix.
- Fold the dough & cut biscuits by turning it out onto a lightly floured surface. Side Note: If the dough is too sticky, lightly sprinkle the top with a little flour.
- Pat the dough into a rectangle, then fold it in half and pat it into another rectangle.
- Fold it a second time and pat into a 5"x10" rectangle or ¾" thickness.
- Using a 2½" round biscuit cutter, cut 8 biscuits out of the dough. Pull together the scraps and form them into a rectangle to cut an extra 2-3 biscuits. Place the biscuits on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake the biscuits by placing the baking sheet into the oven and baking for 11-14 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown and the biscuits are baked through.
- Remove from the oven and brush with melted butter. Serve immediately and enjoy.
These look flaky and so good!
They look very good and would have made me hungry except I’m eating biscuits and sausage gravy as I type this, mine are frozen biscuits though.
Easy and delicious.
Life is just better with good biscuits in it. These look great!
The recipe is simple but produces deliciously delicious cakes. Thank you very much for sharing
I made 1 batch and they were so amazing I had to make a 2nd batch. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Shirley,
That is wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to let me know.
-Pam