

Flip the butter in the flour so that it’s well coated. Place butter into the freezer for five minutes so that it’s thoroughly chilled Meanwhile, sift or whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together then dump into a mound on your countertop.Ĭut the butter into large, thin pieces and lay them on top of the mound of flour. Heat oven to 450 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat. Since posting this in 2014, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear. Recipe updated, originally posted December 2014. If you are looking for an even quicker, easier biscuits recipe, try our simple drop biscuits! More easy recipes We skip the biscuit cutters and just cut the dough into squares, but you could just as easily cut them into circles. Form the dough into a ball and press into a rectangle. Then use a fork to gently work the buttermilk into the mound until a crumbly dough forms.

Once you’ve pressed and smeared all the butter into flakes, you can add the buttermilk. It’s often used when making pastry dough, tart dough and even cookies). (Just in case you were curious, this technique is called frisage. The mound should now look more like a combination of small flakes and crumbs.

It’s pretty quick and if you’re a food dork like us, it’s fun, too. If you’re looking at the recipe and aren’t sure you’ll have all the ingredients, I want you to remember one of my favorite tips you can make your own buttermilk! I know not everybody has buttermilk on hand, so to make your own, simply mix milk with lemon or milk and vinegar (or use one of the other buttermilk substitutions).You really don’t need a bowl for this and everything is done on the countertop. All of these recipes are 5 ingredients or less and make a great brunch to graze on throughout the day.īut back to the biscuits! I’m sharing one of my favorite baking tips below: On the sweeter side of things, I’m baking up my French toast casserole and orange chocolate almond torte (because I have a bag of almond flour begging to be used) to round out the meal. I mean biscuits and gravy together, right?! The recipe calls for a pre-made piecrust, but you can always use my recipe for an easy homemade pie crust that’s in the cookbook too!Īnother recipe that would be amazing with these easy biscuits is my recipe for homemade white peppercorn gravy. If ham sandwiches aren’t your thing and you’d like to go the route of prosciutto instead, I have a great prosciutto parmesan quiche recipe in my book (here is a make ahead quiche or a garden veggie quiche recipe on my blog)! Quiche is always a great option brunch. In fact, I’m using my cookbook(s) – I’ll be making the babies something too- to make a lot of great recipes for our stay at home Easter. These pair so nicely with a slice of ham, so they are a perfect bite for Easter! I’m using my honey biscuits recipe from my Fast and Easy Five Ingredient cookbook. It was super simple and super delicious, it’s what inspired this easy biscuits recipe. Since Easter will be a little different this year, we’re taking advantage of all the time at home and cooking up a feast! One of the things we’re going to enjoy is little ham sandwiches on these biscuits.Īt a restaurant once, we were served biscuits with slices of ham, drizzled with honey, and that’s it.
