Easy Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
Makes about 14 small biscuits*
Equipment
- Sheet tray
- Parchment paper
- Large Bowl
- Whisk
Ingredients
Biscuits
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 4 oz 1 stick unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- 1 cup buttermilk cold (I like to use whole milk buttermilk, but you can use low fat if that is what you have!)
Hot Honey
- ½ cup honey
- 1 Tbsp hot sauce i like tabasco, crystal, or franks for this
- ¼ tsp chipotle chili powder
- pinch of salt
To serve
- salted butter room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425ºF. Line 2 sheet trays with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add in cold butter and toss to coat the cubes in flour.
- Using your hands, fork, or pastry cutter, cut the cold butter into the flour mixture, until the butter is about the size of large peas.
- Add cold buttermilk and gently mix everything together to create a wet shaggy dough. Be careful not to over mix, you just want to mix until all the dry ingredients are absorbed by the wet. (it is good to see chunks of butter in there!)
- Scoop out about 2 tablespoons of the mixture and place on a sheet tray at least 2 inches apart. (You will probably need two sheet trays to fit all the dough depending on the tray size).
- Bake 15-17 minutes until golden.
- While biscuits bake, mix honey, hot sauce, chipotle chili powder, and salt until combined. Set aside.
- Serve biscuits right from the oven, warm, spread with butter and drizzled with hot honey.
Notes
*You can make these as big as you’d like. Just increase baking time 🙂
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I’ve made this recipe a handful of times and I keep coming back to it! It comes together super quick and easy and is perfect when you’re hosting dinner filled with comfort food.