Sunday Morning Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter (cubed small)
- 1 cup buttermilk (If you do not have buttermilk, simply add 1 tbsp of lemon juice or white vinegar to a measuring cup, plus enough milk to make 1 cup – let stand for five minutes)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 450°F
- Whisk together dry ingredients
- Add butter and mix together by hand. Work butter into flour by squeezing the cubes with your fingers and incorporating into the flour mixture
- Optional: add any desired cheeses or herbs
- Pour in buttermilk and stir with a wooden spoon until dough is formed
- Using a cookie scoop, make 20 biscuits on two lined baking sheets – I like to use parchment paper to keep them from sticking
- Bake until edges are golden brown. About 10 minutes
These biscuits are perfect to have in the mornings for breakfast, especially with homemade sausage gravy! They’re an easy-to-make buttermilk drop biscuit and can be dressed up with cheeses and herbs to serve as an appetizer or with dinner.
The processes for making these biscuits is simple and is fun to have your kids help with too. Start off by combining all of your dry ingredients. Then cut a cold stick of butter into centimeter sized cubes. Drop the cubes of butter into the flour mixture and start squeezing the cubes between your fingers. Do this until all of the butter pieces have combined with the dry ingredients and you have a corn-meal texture. Finally, drizzle in the buttermilk, finish combining and bake at 450°F until golden-brown which will take about 10 minutes.
If you don’t have buttermilk, and I usually don’t, add one tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar to your measuring cup and then fill with milk until you have one cup. Let it sit for about five minutes before giving it a quick stir. For baking, I have fallen in love with the corrugated baking sheets from Williams Sonoma. They heat evenly and if I’m not using parchment paper are incredibly easy to clean. Worth every penny!