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Three-Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits {Recipe + Video}

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  • Author: Jen
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 8-10 biscuits 1x

Description

A recipe for fluffy, flaky three-ingredient buttermilk biscuits.


Ingredients

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  • 2 cups self-rising flour (White Lily recommended)
  • 6 tablespoons salted butter
  • 2/3 cup buttermilk (you may need a little more)


Instructions

  1. Place flour in a bow and grate butter into flour. Use a spatula to stir together flour and butter until flour coats butter.
  2. Add buttermilk and use a spatula to stir dough. Stir until dough comes together but be careful not to overmix. If dough seems dry and crumbly and isn’t coming together, add a little more buttermilk.
  3. Turn dough ball out onto a floured clean countertop.
  4. Fold dough about 10 times using your hands to build layers.
  5. Press dough out to about 3/4 inch thickness.
  6. Place a little bit of flour in a small bowl. Dip biscuit cutter into flour and then press it straight down into the dough and pull it straight out. Do not twist or turn dough with cutter.
  7. After first cut, gather dough scraps and spread them back out to 3/4 inch. Cut again. Do this until you are out of dough. You can make a little dough ball out of last bit of scraps. Place cut biscuits onto a plate or baking sheet. (Not the cast iron you are going to cook them on.)
  8. Preaheat oven to 450. While oven is heating, place biscuits in the fridge to chill slightly.
  9. Once oven is ready, remove biscuits from fridge and place them onto a cast iron pan. You can also use a heavy-duty baking sheet.
  10. Bake biscuits for 8-10 minutes, or until golden on top.
  11. Immediately remove biscuits from cast iron or baking sheet so the bottoms don’t continue to bake and burn.
  12. Enjoy…for a little bonus brush some melted butter on tops of biscuits!

Notes

Biscuits can be prepped through placing cut biscuits in fridge and then covered and baked later.