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Everyone needs a good recipe for light and fluffy Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits that are easy to make. This is ours!

Closeup on a white serving bowl filled with a batch of homemade Buttermilk Biscuits.

When I was a young kid I went on a cross-country trip with my Grandparents to Arkansas. We stayed with my Grandfather’s twin sister and the only things I really remember about the vacation were the ticks that scared me and the Buttermilk Biscuits my Great Aunt made that I couldn’t eat enough of. My gosh were they delicious. My mom made biscuits from Bisquick, so that’s what I thought all biscuits tasted like but no, homemade biscuits taste SO MUCH BETTER. All these years later I’ve been trying to learn how to make biscuits that tasted like the ones from my childhood memory. Light and fluffy and buttery but not too hard to make, this Biscuit recipe is the closest I’ve found. Enjoy.

How to Make the Biscuit Dough

Closeup on a small white bowl filled with buttermilk and a single cracked egg.

Step 1: Mix the egg and the buttermilk until combined and then put back into the refrigerator until you need it.

Collage image showing how to make the Buttermilk Biscuit dough.

Step 2: Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt to a mixing bowl and mix until combined.
Step 3: Add the very cold cubed butter to the flour mixture. Using a pastry cutter or your hands, mix the butter into the flour into it is combined.
Step 4: Add the cold buttermilk/egg mixture to the flour.
Step 5: Stir the buttermilk biscuit dough only until the flour and the liquid are combined.  Do not over stir!

Collage image showing how to knead and then cut out the biscuits from the dough.

Step 6: Pour dough out onto a lightly floured countertop.  There will still be some unmixed flour mixture in the bowl, pour that out too. 
Step 7: Gently knead 5-6 times until the dough forms a ball. Do not over knead.
Step 8: Press the dough with your hands into a circle, it should be about 3/4″ to 1″ thick. To get a thick yummy biscuit, you need the dough to be thick enough.

Baking Instructions

Closeup on a circle of Biscuit Dough pressed on a white table with a biscuit cutter and a small bowl filled with milk.

Step 9: Using a 2 1/2″ biscuit cutter, cut out the biscuits. Do not twist the cookie cutter, it will help the biscuits rise if the edges aren’t smoothed out.

Collage image showing the Buttermilk Biscuits before going in the oven and after coming out of the oven.

Step 10: Place the biscuits on a prepared cookie sheet (we use parchment paper.) Brush the biscuits with buttermilk before baking.
Step 11: Bake in an oven preheated to 450-degrees for 10-12 minutes or until they are golden brown on the top.

Light and fluffy and delicious. So buttery you really don’t need to add any butter (but of course we always do.). And don’t forget the Honey!

Closeup on a small white plate with a Buttermilk Biscuit that has been cut in half and covered with a pat of butter.

Step 12: Serve biscuits warm with butter and honey! So yummy!

Expert Tips and Tricks

Keep the ingredients cold!

Keep the butter, eggs, and buttermilk as cold as possible. Leave them in the refrigerator right until you need them. That is the key to a light and fluffy biscuit.

Can I replace the buttermilk with regular milk?

Yes. But the biscuits taste best with buttermilk. You can make a buttermilk substitute by adding two teaspoons of either white vinegar or lemon juice to the 3/4 cup of milk.

Closeup on a stack of Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits just out of the oven.

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Yield 9-10 biscuits
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes 10 seconds
Total Time 22 minutes 10 seconds

Everyone needs a good recipe for light, fluffy and tall Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits that are easy to make. We know you will enjoy ours!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 cup Butter (Cold, Cubed Sweet Cream Salted)
  • 3/4 cup Buttermilk
  • 1 large Egg

Instructions

  1. Mix egg and buttermilk until egg is mixed and set aside.
  2. Add Flour, Sugar, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar and Salt in a mixing bowl. Mix with a spoon until combined.
  3. Add very cold cubed butter to the flour mixture. Using a pastry cutter or your hands, mix the butter into the flour into it is combined.
  4. Add buttermilk/egg mixture to the flour. Stir only until combined.  Do not over stir!
  5. Pour dough out onto a lightly floured countertop.  There will still be some unmixed flour mixture in the bowl, pour that out too.  Gently knead 5-6 times until the dough forms a ball. Do not over knead.
  6. Press the dough with your hands into a circle, it should be about 1" thick.
  7. Using a 2 1/2" biscuit cutter, cut out the biscuits. Do not twist the cookie cutter, it will help the biscuits rise if the edges aren't smoothed out.
  8. Place the biscuits on a prepared baking sheet (we use parchment paper.)
  9. Brush the biscuits with Buttermilk before baking.
  10. Bake in a pre-heated 450 degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown on the top.

Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!

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Cuisine: American / Category: Breads