Scrumptious Buttermilk Biscuits recipe to bake for some warm tea or coffee snacks. Easy homemade from scratch cookies with fillings.
Scrumptious Buttermilk Biscuits
A Scrumptious Buttermilk Biscuit recipe idea to create for a tea for savory snack or treats for family. Oven baked Desserts. Biscuits or cookie recipe to serve for a tea time snack or add it to your kids lunch boxes for school. Include some butter or cheese and other ingredients on the halves of the biscuits for a tasty treat.
Is butter better than shortening for buttermilk biscuits?
Shortening buttermilk biscuits are light and fluffy soft and crumbly and more like a cake than butter biscuits.
What’s the difference between buttermilk biscuits and regular biscuits?
The difference between buttermilk biscuits and regular butter biscuits is that normal butter biscuits are not made with buttermilk. The buttermilk biscuit is more like a scone where as the butter biscuits do not rise much and are generally made with butter. Where as the buttermilk biscuit (scone) rises more like a cake and is more crumbly.
Why aren’t my buttermilk biscuits fluffy?
The secret is to have your oven hot and at the correct temperature for the butter to heat up and let off steam. As butter contains some water and this helps it steam as well. This makes it rise better, and if the oven is not hot enough the butter will melt and not make the biscuit rise or turn out more fluffy.
Ingredients
- flour
- sugar
- butter
- buttermilk
- eggs.
Follow the recipe for the full amounts and ingredients.
How To
Mixing the dough, after you have whisked the flour and sugar together and added the butter.
Fold the dough over as per recipe, before you press it flat for cutting.
Sprinkle some flour on a board then press with your fingers the dough.
Cut into squares or shape with a cookie cutter if you would prefer.
This totally depends on you and if you would like to make these for an occasion or for the kids.
Placing the cut pieces of dough on a greased baking sheet and dotting it with some egg mix for browning.
All baked and nice and golden, warm and ready for dotting some butter and jam (jelly)of choice.
Final buttermilk biscuits or in south africa we would call these scones. Making them round and filling with jam and whipped cream. Oh so yummy.
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Scrumptious Buttermilk Biscuits
Scrumptious Buttermilk Biscuits recipe to bake for some warm tea or coffee snacks. Easy homemade from scratch cookies with fillings.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Total Time: 35 min
- Yield: 20 1x
- Category: Desserts, biscuits, cookies
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
1. 3 1/2 cups self-rising flour
2. 2 tbsp sugar
3. 1 1/4 cup butter, unsalted
4. 1 cup buttermilk
5. 1 egg, beaten
6. 1/4 tsp kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 Deg. F (218-220 Deg. C)
- In a large bowl, whisk flour and sugar
- Cut in the butter until the mixture is crumbly
- Slowly add the buttermilk, stirring with a wooden spoon until it forms a loose dough
- Turn the dough out on a lightly floured surface and form into a square about 1 inch thick
- Cut into quarters, stack on top of each other, and roll out again
- Roll into a square, cut, and stack once more
- Finally, roll into a rectangle about 3/4 inch thick
- Cut into about 15-20 pieces
- Place the cut biscuits on a baking sheet and place in the freezer for 10 minutes (this makes them more fluffy)
- Brush the tops of the biscuits with the egg and sprinkle with a small amount of salt
- Bake for about 15 minutes, until golden brown
- leave to cool a little or serve warm.
- Serve warm with butter or jelly
Notes
- Make buttermilk with some milk and lemon juice if you do not have buttermilk.
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