Biscuits. Moist, lightly sweet biscuits are just perfect for breakfast or a cup of tea in the afternoon. This is as close as I could get to the store bakery version. My husband and kids loved these just as much as the store bought biscuits. We make a lactose free version with vanilla soy milk and margarine, but have made the milk variety for others. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or a fork, or two knives, until crumbly.
Are biscuits better with butter or shortening?
There are some recipes out there that call for shortening (like these fluffy biscuits), however, most call for butter.
Butter provides more flavor than shortening and can create more flaky layers the way butter creates a flakier pie crust.
You can cook Biscuits using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Biscuits
- You need 50 grams of softened butter.
- Prepare 25 grams of icing sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of milk.
- Prepare of Vanilla essence.
- You need 75 grams of plain flour.
- You need of Icing for decorating.
Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Using a box grater, grate butter over the flour. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Biscuits step by step
- Heat your oven to 180 degrees. Put the butter into a bowl. Then sift the sugar and icing sugar in top and mix it in..
- Add the milk and the vanilla essence and mix in well with your hands and a spoon..
- Mix up the mixup running between your fingers until it becomes into a ball don’t over work it. You may need to add a little more milk depending on the flour your using..
- Sprinkle flour onto the worktop. Then roll out the dough until 5mm 1/4 inch thick..
- Use cookie cutters to cut out the shapes then lift them onto a lined baking sheet. If there is any scraps bind together, roll out and repeat. Bake the biscuits for 8 - 10 minutes!.
Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks. This simple, made from scratch, butter biscuit recipe from Paula Deen is a Southern favorite for breakfast. Ingredients include all-purpose flour, cubed butter and milk. My biscuits won the Best Quick Bread division at my county fair. One of the judges liked it so much, she asked for the recipe!