Hey guys welcome back to Sugar Spun Run. I am Sam and today
I'm going to be showing you how to make homemade biscuits.
These are so easy and can be made by hand no mixer required.
I think you're really going to love them, so let's get started
This recipe is so easy,
but there are a few key tips that I want to tell you to make sure your biscuits come out as perfectly as possible.
The first thing that you'll need to do is pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now we're going to mix together our dry ingredients. We'll start with two cups of all-purpose flour,
one tablespoon of granulated sugar
1 tablespoon of baking powder, and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Now stir these together until they're nicely combined.
Now comes what is potentially the most
important ingredient for these homemade biscuits, the butter. For this recipe, you're going to need six tablespoons of unsalted butter
If you have a European butter that's even better, but regular unsalted butter will work
just fine here too. Now in order to get those buttery flaky layers in your homemade biscuits,
you're going to need to cut this butter into your dry ingredients. It is so important that the butter is cold for this step.
I actually like to place my butter in the freezer for about 10 to 15 minutes or even an hour
before I begin to make sure that it's as cold as possible.
Now, you can cut your butter into the flour mixture one of two ways you can either use a pastry cutter,
or you can use a box grater. Today, I'm going to be using my preferred method of using a box grater.
Now this method works best if your butter is ice cold.
This is why I like to freeze mine. What we're going to do is hold on to the edge of the butter and run it
through the grater until all of it has been shredded. When you get to that last piece you're holding onto,
you can actually use a knife to cut this up into smaller pieces that way you don't end up grating your hands.
And if you don't want to use a box grater
or if you don't have one on hand a pastry cutter will work very nicely and just use that to cut the butter into the mixture.
Now whether you are grading your butter and then adding it to the mixture, or
using a pastry cutter to cut the butter directly into the flour mixture,
the end result is that you want your mixture to resemble coarse crumbs. Now we'll add the milk.
You need 3/4 cups of cold whole milk for this recipe. You want your butter and your milk to be cold,
which is going to help give your biscuits those nice flaky layers?
Now stir in your milk using a wooden spoon, stirring until all of the ingredients are just combined.
Don't overwork your biscuit dough. Now transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface.
If your dough is very wet and difficult to manage add as much flour as you need
to get it to be manageable. Now fold the dough over itself about five or six times, Rotating the dough as you work.
Again, it is so important to not overwork the dough,
but folding the dough over itself like this is critical because it will give your biscuits those buttery, flaky layers.
Now using your hands, and not a rolling pin,
gently flatten the dough until it's about one inch thick. Now use a biscuit cutter,
I like to use a 2 and 3/4 inch biscuit cutter, to cut into biscuit shapes.
Pressing the cutters straight down into the dough, don't twist it.
In order to get as many biscuits as possible out of this dough,
make sure to make your cuts as close as possible, and then take the scraps, and
collect them back into a ball handling them as little as possible,
so that you can get as many biscuits as possible out of the dough.
Now place your biscuits on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet placing them close together, less than 1/2 inch apart.
Alright, now we'll bake our biscuits and our 425 degrees Fahrenheit oven for about 12 minutes.
You don't want to over bake these or they'll get too tough on the outside.
They should just be lightly golden brown on top.
For a final touch, you can brush the biscuits with melted salted butter just before serving.
And that is it guys. That's how to make homemade biscuits. As you saw these are so easy, they just require one bowl, no mixer.
They can be whipped up in a couple of seconds,
And they only take 12 minutes to bake. These are so soft, and buttery, and flaky
I think you guys are going to love these. So if you try the recipe out, please let me know what you think.
Thank you guys so much for watching, and I'll see you next time.