The 6 ingredient Biscuit Recipe I’ve Made a Million Times
Alternate title: The Biscuit Recipe that Can Salvage Any Dinner for Bart
Back in 2012, we belonged to a CSA in Austin, which meant that sometimes I made things for dinner that no one really wanted to eat.
Case in point: One night, I made broccoli soup for dinner and served it with an arugula salad, two things that are NOT high on Bart’s list of favorite foods, but the CSA gaveth and the CSA demandeth that we eat broccoli and arugula.
Bart had been a fan of this biscuit recipe for years before this, but I’m not sure he every loved them more than he did that night when they were the only part of dinner that he didn’t have to choke down.
Except for these brownies, I’m not sure there is anything I make that Bart loves more.
And they really are TREMENDOUSLY good biscuits. I’ve made plenty of other biscuit recipes and never had anything come even close.
And a biscuit out of a can? Not even in the same universe.
I mean, these biscuits have six ingredients. It takes one bowl. The only negative to this biscuit recipe is that there is no can to make a cool popping noise when you break it open.
But you can move past that, can’t you?
6 ingredient Biscuit Recipe
Biscuits
This six ingredient biscuit recipe couldn't get better!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour I sometimes do half wheat flour, but I'll be honest. I like them better with all white flour
- 1 Tb baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 8 Tb 1 stick cold butter, diced
- 3/4 cup half-and-half
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
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Combine dry ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer with the paddle attachment on. Add the butter and mix on low speed until the butter is the size of peas.
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Add the half-and-half and mix just until combined.
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Dump the dough out on a lightly-floured surface and pat into a 3/4 inch tall square. Cut out circles with a 2 to 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter (or glass) and place on a cookie sheet. (The key to good biscuits is not working the dough too much - as light a touch as you can manage is best).
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Bake for 20-22 minutes, until the tops are lightly browned. Serve warm.
Recipe Notes
(adapted from Ina Garten)
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Photos by Heather Mildenstein
I am totally trying these tonight! They will go perfectly with the potato soup I have planned 🙂
I don't think I've ever had biscuits. I clearly need to rectify that.
Biscuits are one of my all-time favorite foods, I make them often and just love love LOVE them. I find it a mortal flaw that J-Mo thinks biscuits are nasty. I'm still not sure if I'm willing to look past this obvious character problem.
xox
Man, you had me until half and half. I never have that in the house. Guess I'll be making a trip to the store today. These look delicious!
I'm definitely making these with potato soup this week! And we have been on the hunt for a great brownie recipe and have had zero luck, so we'll be trying out your brownies this week too 😉 Thanks for all the fun recipes!
Yum. I have never made Biscuits from scratch. This recipe seems easy enough for me to try!
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we've been making biscuits more lately and they are wonderful- I'm convinced it's all the butter. I hated opening the can and made Taylor do it every time, I just COULD NOT handle the suspense of it.
Ok, totally made these tonight (even went to the store for the half and half) and they were awesome! Super easy and quick and WAY better then the grocery store junk. Yum!
I used to hate making biscuits, because I hate getting the butter in without ruining them.
Until I found a recipe that uses a cup and a half of cream in place of the butter and the liquid. They're FABULOUS and take even less time to throw together.
A whole cube of butter AND half and half? They look very tasty, but I'm not going to be making these any time soon. What I would give for your metabolism!!!
I don't think this recipe is in your recipe index.
You're right! I went back and updated it – thanks for letting me know!
I made these tonight and they were a big hit! After one bite I almost decided to forgo dinner and just eat an obscene number of biscuits. Ok, I still ate an obscene amount AND dinner, but oh well.
Now I just need to figure out how to make mine look like yours. My dough was so crumbly (Maybe it's supposed to be?) and my biscuits were not very pretty. Practice makes perfect!
It is just me and my 4 year old daughter at home. Is there any way to freeze these so we don’t have so many at one time? It looks like a great recipe.
You probably could, although I’ve never tried it!
Or half the recipe, which I did for years when there were just two or three of us!
These came in clutch on Sunday! Had ZERO plans for dinner, so I whipped these up in less than 10 minutes and scrambled up some eggs – DONE! And my kids gobbled them right up!