Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits at home
- Yield 8
- Prep 30 minutes
- Cook 10 minutes
- Total 40 minutes
Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits at home is a bakes recipe on Avoteb. The yield on the card is 8. Plan on 40 minutes from start to plate. The amounts and the method are both on this page.
Ingredients
Yield: 8 servings
- 2 cups (284 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 6 tablespoons (85 grams) very cold butter*, diced into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 cup cold buttermilk
- optional toppings: extra melted butter and flaky sea salt
Method
Stir the dry ingredients: Combine the flour, baking powder, brown sugar, salt and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. Whisk briefly to combine.
Slice in the butter. Scatter the diced butter over the dry ingredient mixture. Take a pastry cutter or two forks (or a food processor*) to cut the butter into the dry ingredients until it is well-mixed and forms pea-sized chunks of butter.
Tip in the cold buttermilk and stir until the dough until it is just combined. (Try to avoid over-mixing the dough.)
Form the dough. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface. Take your hands to quickly shape the dough into a small rectangle. Take a rolling pin to roll the dough out evenly until it is about 1/2-inch thick.
Fold the dough. Then fold the dough on top of itself into thirds (like you are folding an envelope, see image above). Rotate the dough 90 degrees. Then repeat the folding process a second time, rotate, repeat the folding process a third time, rotate.
Slice the dough. Roll the dough out once more into a roughly 10 x 5-inch rectangle. Then use a 2 to 2.5-inch biscuit cutter to firmly cut the dough into 8 circles, taking care not to twist the biscuit cutter at all when cutting the dough, and arrange the biscuits evenly on the prepared baking sheet.* If you would like, re-roll the remaining dough scraps and cut out 1 or 2 more biscuits.
Warm the oven to 450°F (232°C). And move the biscuits to your freezer or refrigerator for 15 minutes as the oven heats.
Roast Once the oven is ready to go, bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes, or until they achieve your desired level of browning on top. Move the baking sheet to a wire rack. Then, if you would like, brush the tops of the biscuits with some melted butter and sprinkle with a pinch of flaky sea salt.
Plate Plate warm and enjoy!
