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Flaky Bicuits

Flaky Biscuits Recipe

Course Breakfast
Keyword Flaky Biscuits Recipe
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 8 Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups All-purpose flour (plus more for dusting)
  • 1/3 Cup Unsalted butter (cold)
  • 1 Cup Buttermilk (cold)
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking powder
  • ¼ Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar
  • ½ Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Egg (for egg wash)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven at 400 degrees F, and grease the skillet/baking sheet.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda.
  3. Cut the cold butter in small pieces and add to the flour mixture, quickly mix to form coarse crumbs you should still see some cold butter inside.
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  4. Add the cold buttermilk and combine, place the dough on a floured surface worktop. You need to work as quickly as possible because you don’t want the butter melts.

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  5. Put the dough on a flour worktop top and put together by forming a ball. 

  6. Use a rolling and roll the dough out, fold the dough into three layers, roll out again and fold in three layers do this like 3-4 times, this will make layers in the biscuits
  7. Finally, roll out to the dough to about ½’’ and use a cookie cutter to cut the dough in a circle.
  8. Place the cut-out doughs into the skillet/prepared baking pan and brush with egg wash (mix one egg plus a tablespoon of water) you can also use milk for the egg wash.

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  9. Bake in the preheated oven for about 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. You see how good they look? You can see from this close picture.

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  10. Serve 

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  11. Enjoy!

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  12. Enjoy with scrambled egg, beef patty or any of your favorites.

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Recipe Notes

NOTE: Make sure the butter and buttermilk are cold, this is very important, also if you don't have buttermilk you can substitute milk take away one tablespoon and replace it with lemon juice and leave the milk for at least 5 minutes.