Homemade Biscuit Recipe

An easy homemade biscuit recipe you can throw together last minute as a perfect accompaniment to any dinner.

Whether you want to serve them with sausage and gravy or make an irresistible breakfast sandwich, this homemade biscuit recipe is one you’ll want to memorize.

Biscuits always intimidated me, but once I learned a super simple recipe to accompany my biscuit cobber recipe, I’ve been making them nonstop. This recipe is such a simple one to learn, but it yields tasty, buttery biscuits that work well for a simple egg sandwich, as a quick little snack, or as a base for a strawberry biscuit shortcake.

How to make this simple biscuit recipe

You don’t need many ingredients for these easy biscuits.

What you need

• Dry ingredients: You’ll use flour, baking powder, salt, and granulated sugar.
• Evaporated milk: This recipe uses evaporated milk, which helps create a moist biscuit with a deeper flavor.
• Butter: The key to good biscuits is very cold butter that you cut into the dry ingredients.

How to make it

• Step 1: Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a bowl.
• Step 2: Cut cold butter into small cubes and add it to the dry ingredients. Use a pastry cutter to cut the butter into the flour until a coarse meal forms.
• Step 3: Add evaporated milk and use a fork to mix it into the flour to form a loose dough.
• Step 4: Turn the dough onto a floured surface and form it into a disc with your hands. Use a floured rolling pin to roll the dough once or twice until it’s about 1 inch thick.
• Step 5: Use a 2¾-inch cookie cutter to cut the dough into rounds. Roll the excess into another 1-inch thick disc and continue cutting out biscuits until no more dough remains. This recipe yields 8 biscuits.
• Step 6: Transfer the biscuits to a lightly greased baking sheet and bake at 450ºF for 10 minutes until golden brown on the bottom.
• Step 7: Serve the biscuits with butter and jam and enjoy!

Homemade Biscuit Recipe

An easy homemade biscuit recipe you can throw together last minute as a perfect accompaniment to any dinner.

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Servings: 8 biscuits

Calories: 189kcal

Equipment

• Mixing Bowls
• Pastry cutter
• Baking sheet

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (chilled and cut into small cubes)
• 8 tablespoons evaporated milk
• Shortening (or vegetable oil; for greasing)

Instructions

Prepare the dry ingredients:

• Lightly grease a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 450ºF.
• Combine 1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and ½ teaspoon kosher salt in a bowl.

Cut the butter into the dry ingredients:

• Add the cold, cubed butter to the dry ingredients. Use a pastry cutter or 2 forks to cut the butter into the flour until a coarse meal forms.

Add the evaporated milk:

• Add 8 tablespoons of evaporated milk and use a fork to mix it into the flour to form the dough.

Roll out the biscuit dough:

• Turn the dough onto a floured surface and form it into a disc with your hands. Use a floured rolling pin to quickly roll the dough once or twice until it’s about 1 inch thick.

Cut out the biscuits:

• Use a 2¾-inch cookie cutter to cut the dough into rounds. Roll the excess dough into another 1-inch thick disc and continue cutting out biscuits until no more dough remains. This recipe yields 8 biscuits.

Bake the biscuits:

• Arrange the biscuits to the prepared baking sheet and transfer to the preheated oven for 10 minutes until golden brown on the bottom.

To serve:

• Serve the biscuits warm with butter and jam and enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 189kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Sodium: 216mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin C: 0.3mg

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