Perfect Homemade Biscuits Every Time! | Mom On Timeout (2024)

The BEST Homemade Biscuit recipe you’ll ever try! These easy, homemade biscuits are soft, flaky, made completely from scratch and can be on your table in about 15 minutes! A weekend staple in our house! Love all things breakfast? Me too! Make sure to give my amazingFluffy Buttermilk Pancakes and Lemon Blueberry Scones a try!

Almost every weekend I whip up a batch of these easy homemade biscuits. It’s by far my favorite biscuit recipe and since it’s so easy, we make them all the time.

There is nothing quite like a warm, buttery, flaky biscuit straight from the oven that you can slather with butter and jelly, make into a biscuit breakfast sandwich, or enjoy with sausage gravy. I used to buy the mixes (and I’m sure I will pick up a box in the future again) but with a biscuit recipe this easy, it’s just as easy to make biscuits from scratch.

This easy biscuit recipe has never failed me and after much tweaking it is my go-to biscuit recipe. The biscuits rise up nice and fluffy and the copious amounts of butter ensure a tender, delicious biscuit each and every time.

What Ingredients Do I Need for Homemade Biscuits

Not a whole lot! And I’m pretty sure you have most, if not all, of these on hand in your pantry. The one ingredient you may see in this list that could be a little unfamiliar is the cream of tartar. I use it in my Snickerdoodles recipe and love it in biscuits but if you don’t have it on hand, please, don’t let that stop you from making this biscuit recipe. Go ahead and omit it from the recipe.

You’ll notice this list is very similar to the ingredients used in my scones recipe. My scones call for heavy cream instead of whole milk and a more substantial amount of sugar.

I should also note that my brother makes these biscuits every weekend and doesn’t use the egg, like, EVER. In fact, neither does my little sister. If you want to leave it out, go ahead.

• all-purpose flour
• sugar
• salt
• baking powder
• cream of tartar
• COLD butter
• egg
• milk

Tips for Making Biscuits

• The secret to excellent biscuits is COLD BUTTER. Really cold. Many times the biscuit dough gets worked so much that the butter softens before the biscuits even go in the oven. You want to handle the dough as little as possible because we want that butter to stay cold.

• I use two methods tor incorporate the butter into the flour mixture.
  • One is to cut the butter into small pieces, refrigerate or freeze until ready to use, and then use a pastry cutter to cut the butter into the mixture when ready.
  • The second is grating frozen butter with a box grater and then stirring it into the flour mixture.

• Both work great so use the method you prefer. Don’t go too crazy here – you want to see small, pea-sized pieces of butter throughout the dough.
• To keep the butter from melting at all, use a cold egg and cold milk as well.
• The dough is going to be sticky so you want to generously flour the surface before turning your dough out onto it. I also sprinkle some flour on top before working with the dough.

• You can either use your hands to pat the dough out, or, if you prefer, use a rolling pin to very gently roll the dough out. I always just use my hands because at this point, they’re already a mess. If the dough is sticky, just sprinkle on additional flour, about a tablespoon at a time.

Can I Use Buttermilk in this Biscuit Recipe?

Yes, you absolutely can and we frequently do. Since buttermilk is thicker than regular milk, you will need slightly more to get the dough to the right consistency. Start with one and one-quarter cup and add more as needed.

To get a nice, tall biscuit, I like to pat the dough out to 3/4 to 1 inch thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter. I ended up with nine this time but depending on who is snacking on biscuit dough, I can get up to 12 biscuits.

Baking the biscuits is super quick – just about 10 minutes is all you need. I like to bake my biscuits on parchment paper but if you don’t have that on hand, lightly grease your baking sheet.

For extra yumminess, brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter…

And serve with jams and jellies for a serious treat.

What You’ll Need to Make Biscuits

• Abaking sheetthat can handle the size of the scones.
• Biscuit cutter so you get nice evenly sized biscuits.
• Parchment papermakes removal of these biscuits painless and ensures they come off in one piece.
• Apastry cuttermakes quick work of cutting the butter into the flour. Two knives or forks will also work or you can use a box grater.
• Apastry brushto brush on melted butter when the biscuits are hot from the oven.

More favorite breakfast recipes:

1. The BEST Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
2. Ham and Cheese Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole
3. Baked Cherry Cheesecake French Toast
4. Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
5. Lemon Blueberry Scones

How To Make Biscuits

Recipe originally published May 22, 2012.

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