Biscuit recipe

Hello All!!!

So this is the recipe for biscuits that I have been making recently..which I also got from my sister, Deese. She actually found this recipe at, Joy the Baker's Blog! What can I say.. she's just so helpful. :)

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes (I just chop mine up with a knife)
1 large egg
3/4 cup buttermilk, cold ( I make my own:)

**Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar.

Add butter to the dry ingredients. Use your fingers to quickly incorporate the fat into the flour. Break up the butter with your fingers until some of the fat is the size of oat flakes and some of the fat is the size of small pebbles.

In a small bowl, whisk together egg and buttermilk.

***I made my own buttermilk substitute because I didn't have any:
3/4 cup of regular milk mixed with a little less than a Tablespoon of Distilled Vinegar.
Let it sit for about 5 minutes before adding to mixture.

Make a small well in the center of the fat and flour mixture. Add the buttermilk mixture. Using a fork, combine the wet and dry ingredients. Try to moisten all of the flour bits with the liquid.  Knead together until dough forms a disk about 1 1/2 inches thick.  The dough is quite sticky so make sure you use quite a bit of flour on the counter before you dump out the dough and then also I also added some on top of dough!

You could use a round, 1 1/2-inch biscuit cutter to cut biscuits (you can use a water glass if you don't have one!). I decided to use a heart shaped cookie cutter to make them all cute and stuff :)

Gather the dough scraps, knead for a few turns, and cut out more biscuits until no dough remains. Place biscuits on a small cookie sheet and place in the fridge until ready to bake.

Place a rack in the center of the oven. Bake between 10 and 20 minutes until golden brown, every oven is different! Will last for 4 days, longer if kept in fridge or freezer.

Finished product!
(Some of mine pancaked because of the temperature in my oven :/ )