With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought I’d start an adventure in finding a great biscuit recipe, so by the time Thanksgiving is here, I’d have the perfect recipe…and really I am hoping I’d find that perfect biscuit recipe straight away, as I’ve read through many different biscuit recipes and I’m hoping that I will not have to make too many of them find that perfect recipe.

What I did learn was that biscuit recipes have a lot of baking powder as baking powder acts as the leveling agent to help your baked goods rise so because biscuits do not have yeast in them, lots of baking powder is needed.  I also have seen variations of the wet ingredients from buttermilk to sour cream.

This biscuit recipe was super easy, you basically place all your dry ingredients in a bowl and “cut” your butter into the flour.  I used a pastry knife and I cut into the butter/flour until the flour had bits of butter pieces as you can see from my photo.

I then added my buttermilk, I used almost a whole cup for my biscuits yet the original recipe said 3/4 cup of milk.  For biscuits, if they are too dry before you bake it, you can rest assured that it will be dry and crumbly after you bake it.  You have to find the balance of not too much liquid vs enough liquid and this will come from practicing just know if your dough is a little bit sticky, then you are fine.

The dough for the biscuits should be slightly sticky to the touch, but not so sticky that it clings to your hands or the side of the bowl.

I placed the dough on my counter that was lightly floured and with a rolling pin I rolled out the dough out until it was about 1/2″ if you want a higher rise on your biscuit to roll your dough to be closer to 3/4″-1″.  Now comes the fun part, I  had my daughter help cut out circles and placed the biscuit dough on a baking sheet and baked off my biscuits.

This fabulous photo of my biscuits was taken by my daughter, Kelsi

In conclusion, these biscuits were actually really tasty and I would totally make them again because they are easy and I usually have the ingredients on hand to do so.  But for my Thanksgiving dinner I want to make a fluffier biscuit, one that is soft and flaky…so the search is still on….until next time!