Melt In Your Mouth Heavenly Biscuits Recipes

BEST HOMEMADE SOUTHERN BISCUITS!

Steps:

• Freeze your butter. This recipe requires COLD butter. To ensure that it's nice and cold, just place a stick of butter in the freezer at least 20 minutes before you plan to make the biscuits. If you're planning ahead you can place the butter in the freezer earlier.
• Preheat oven to 425℉. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside.
• Mix dry ingredients. Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Mix with a fork to make sure the ingredients are well combined.
• Grate the butter. If the butter is too cold to grate from leaving in the freezer for a long time, just let it sit out for a couple minutes to warm slightly then grate. We want the butter as cold as possible. I find it best to leave the wrapper on one end to hold the stick while I grate, this helps prevent the butter from softening too much while in my hands.
• Mix butter with the dry ingredients. Use your hands for this. Be gentle
• Add the cream. Gently combine the dough together. I still use my hands for this. Messy. Yes. But again, biscuit making comes down mostly to the method.
• Sprinkle clean work surface with a small amount of flour to prevent the dough from sticking, remove the dough from the bowl and place on the work surface. When you remove the dough from the bowl it will be crumbly, it's ok. Just keep pressing the dough together gently and press it out with your fingertips into a rectangular shape about 12 inches by 6 inches, and 3/4 of an inch thick.
• Fold the dough over. Add sprinkles of flour as needed to your work surface or the dough if it's too sticky. Continue doing this until you have folded the dough over 4-5 times. This is called laminating, and creates the layers in the biscuits.
• Cut biscuits out. I use a 2.5 inch biscuit cutter, you can use any size you prefer. This is the set that I use (affiliate link) Place the cut out biscuits on a parchment lined baking sheet.
• With the remaining dough, you can make additional biscuits. I typically have to press out my dough twice. Getting the dough to about a 3/4 of an inch thickness I can cut out 6 biscuits. To make the next batch, gently knead the dough back together. Then start the laminating process over again (folding the dough) then cut the remaining 6 biscuits. During this time keep the already cut biscuits in the fridge to stay cold.
• Brush with cream. Use the additional 1 tablespoon of cream to brush onto the tops of the biscuits.
• Bake. Bake between 13-15 minutes. Keep an eye on them, when the tops are golden brown to your preference then remove them. Once they start browning it goes quick. So keep an eye on them.
• Brush with melted butter. Serve. After baking, brush with some melted butter, and eat up! These biscuits are best when served warm and out of the oven.

HOMEMADE BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 425F/220C. Line a baking sheet and set aside.
• In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or a fork till it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add the buttermilk and use a spatula to combine till a rough dough forms.
• Turn the dough out on a floured work bench and pat it into a rectangle. Fold the rectangle into thirds.
• Give it a half turn, pat it back into a rectangle, fold it into thirds and repeat this once more.
• Roll the dough out into 1/2 inch thickness. Cut 10-12 biscuits. While cutting the biscuits, don't rotate the cookie cutter.
• Transfer the biscuits onto the lined baking sheet. Brush with buttermilk and bake for 15 minutes till the top is golden brown. Serve warm.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH HEAVENLY BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees F.
• Spray an 8 inch round cake pan with cooking spray.
• Combine next 6 ingredients in a medium bowl.
• Cut in shortening or lard.
• Stir in buttermilk and cream.
• (mixture will be VERY WET!) Let stand 2-3 minutes.
• Pour remaining cup of flour into another bowl.
• Flour your hands.
• Drop a biscuit size lump of dough into the flour. I use a half cup measuring cup for this step. The "dough" is too wet to really pick up with your hands.
• Cover with more flour.
• Gently pick up lump of dough with your hands by sliding your fingers underneath it then lightly toss from hand to hand to remove excess flour and to roughly shape the biscuits. You are just basically coating the very wet dough with flour. Be gentle!
• Drop into prepared pan.
• Repeat with remaining dough, placing tightly into pan.
• This is so they rise up instead of just spreading out.
• Brush with melted butter or margarine.
• Bake 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Let cool in pan a few minutes, then dump pan out and gently separate biscuits.
• Serve ASAP!