Learn how to make the best buttermilk biscuits from scratch with our easy-to-follow homemade recipe. These Southern flaky buttermilk biscuits are quick and simple to prepare with just a few ingredients.
These homemade buttermilk biscuits from scratch are the perfect anytime treat. They are light, fluffy, and best of all made from scratch. I love crisp, flaky biscuits, enjoy them toasted with jam for breakfast or covered with gravy next to crispy chicken, Buttermilk biscuits are every meal’s best accompaniment.
Let’s make these easy buttermilk biscuits from scratch recipe!
Ingredients For Buttermilk Biscuits
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 6 tablespoons cold butter, divide, cut into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons shortening
How to Make Buttermilk Biscuits From Scratch?
- Preheat oven to 400°F (205°C), and line a 9X13 inch baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda, in a medium-sized bowl.
- Using a pastry blender (cutter), cut 3 tablespoons of butter and shortening into flour until the mixture is crumbly.
- Stir in buttermilk and mix just until the mixture absorbs the buttermilk and a dough begins to form.
- Transfer the dough onto a lightly floured working surface and knead 3 or 4 times.
- Dust some flour on the dough, pat it into a rectangle about 1 inch thick, and cut with a 2-inch cookie cutter into 8 rounds.
- Shape the excess dough into an additional biscuit.
- Bake on a lined baking pan for 16-18 minutes or until golden.
- Melt the remaining butter in the microwave for 30 seconds.
- Remove the buttermilk biscuits from the oven, brush the top with melted butter and allow them to cool on a baking pan for 5 minutes, then serve.
- Enjoy!
Buttermilk Biscuits From Scratch
These homemade buttermilk biscuits from scratch are the perfect anytime treat. They are light, fluffy, and best of all made from scratch. I love crisp, flaky biscuits, enjoy them toasted with jam for breakfast or covered with gravy next to crispy chicken, Buttermilk biscuits are every meal’s best accompaniment.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup buttermlk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 6 tablespoons cold butter divide, cut into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons shortening
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F (205°C), and line a 9X13 inch baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda, in a medium-sized bowl.
- Using a pastry blender (cutter), cut 3 tablespoons of butter and shortening into flour until the mixture is crumbly.
- Stir in buttermilk and mix just until the mixture absorbs the buttermilk and a dough begins to form.
- Transfer the dough onto a lightly floured working surface and knead 3 or 4 times.
- Dust some flour on the dough, pat it into a rectangle about 1 inch thick, and cut with a 2-inch cookie cutter into 8 rounds.
- Shape the excess dough into an additional biscuit.
- Bake on a lined baking pan for 16-18 minutes or until golden.
- Melt the remaining butter in the microwave for 30 seconds.
- Remove the buttermilk biscuits from the oven, brush the top with melted butter and allow them to cool on a baking pan for 5 minutes, then serve.
- Enjoy!
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