We will throw the word "best" around here a lot for se purposes, but you have to trust me when I tell you that this is the best biscuit you can ever make. Seriously. 

They're buttery. They're flaky. I made a chicken biscuit with our fried chicken recipe, our biscuit recipe and a drizzle of honey, and I felt feelings that would be inappropriate to detail on a food blog.

Run, don't walk, to your nearest oven to make these biscuits

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INGREDIENTS

MAKES 12 BISCUITS

  • 1/2 cup quality chilled butter
  • 2 1/4 cups of soft self-rising flower
  • 1 1/4 cups of buttermilk
  • 3 tablespoons of melted butter
  • Flour for working dough

Cook time

TOTAL TIME: 25-35 minutes

  • 10-20 minutes preparation
  • 15 minutes baking

 

Method

  1. Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees.
  2. Cut chilled butter into 1/4 inch thick slices. Toss with flour in a large bowl. Cut butter into flower with a pastry blender (or a fork if you don't have one like us). Do this until mixture begins to become crumbly. 
    • For extra flaky biscuits, you can cover the mixture and put it in the freezer for 5 minutes, which helps the butter remain cold which, in turn, helps your biscuits become flakier. Biscuit layers form when thin sheets of butter melts between within the flour during the baking process. Warmer butter during the preparation process mixes into the flour more which makes for less defined layers. For flaky-enough biscuits and quicker prep, continue straight to the next step. 
  3. Add buttermilk to the flour and butter mix and stir until ingredients are just combined.
  4. Flour your hands and and your kneading surface. Scoop biscuit dough out onto  floured surface and fold dough over onto itself 2 or four times. Flatten the dough out somewhat and sprinkle another 2-3 tablespoons of flour on the it before folding the dough on itself another 3 times. Repeat this process 2 more times.
  5. Pad the dough out into a 1/2 inch sheet. Cut out biscuits with a 2 inch biscuit cutter (or a glass if you don't have one like us). Place biscuits either in a greased dish or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 
  6. Bake for 13-15 minutes until biscuits start to turn golden. After removing biscuits from oven, brush with melted butter. 
 
 

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