This recipe is easy whether you use a food processor or the back of a fork…you’ll get the same flakey biscuits for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. On those lazy weekend mornings or those cold Snow Day no school mornings (our fav!!) you’ll love these light flavorful biscuits with your favorite toppings…or just plain 🙂
Let’s get started…preheat your oven to 400* degrees.
Start by adding 2 cups all purpose flour to a large bowl or food processor
Add 2 teaspoons of baking powder
A 1/4 teaspoon salt
Add 1 stick Unsalted COLD butter cut into little pieces. This will make it easy to cut into the flour.
I’m using a food processor to quickly whirl all the ingredients together. Pulse the flour and butter until it looks crumbled. A few pulses. If you are using the back of a fork or pastry cutter, you cut the butter into the flour until you get the same result.
Once you have crumbled the flour and butter together with all of the other dry ingredients…it’s time to add the half-n-half. (you can add whole milk, 2% milk, or buttermilk). The fattiness of the milk will add to the rich flavor of these flaky buttery biscuits.
Measure 1 cup of Half-n-Half, start to pulse the flour in the food processor, pour the milk in slowly thru the pouring spout until the mixture starts to form a dough. DO NOT OVER PROCESS! Just as the dough starts to come together STOP!
If you over process the dough it will become too wet and when it bakes it will not be as flaky. If your mixing this in a bowl use your hands to bring the mixture together and again, don’t over work the dough. Just as it starts to come together, STOP.
Using a tablespoon, scoop & drop some biscuits on an ungreased cookie sheet. Your over has been preheated to 400* degrees. Space the biscuits about an inch apart but maximize the space on the pan. Place them in the oven and set your timer for 18-20 minutes.
After 18-20 minutes in the oven…these delicious crumbly biscuits are ready to be served warm from the oven! Yummy!!
The perfect quick breakfast for a great lazy weekend morning OR for those wonderful surprise snow days off from school!! Relax and enjoy!
Next to that cappuccino, you can have your biscuit filled with homemade berry jam from the summer with some soft butter OR these biscuits are great for a sausage and gravy hardy biscuit breakfast!
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 stick unsalted COLD butter
1 cup Half-N-Half
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