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Biscuits, the Cheater Way

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As a southern girl, I grew up eating biscuits. They’re a breakfast staple! And though I may enjoy the flavor of biscuits from a can as much as the next gal, they never do quite measure up to fluffy, homemade, flaky biscuits. However, the biscuit gods have made it less than pleasant for us little cooks to make said fluffy masterpieces. In particular, I happen to despise using a pastry cutter to “cut” in the butter. No more!

Ingredients

  • 2-⅔ cups All-purpose Flour
  • 4 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ¼ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • ¾ teaspoons Kosher Salt
  • 2 Tablespoons Butter, Chilled
  • ¼ cups Shortening, Chilled
  • 1 cup Buttermilk, Chilled

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Add all dry ingredients to the work bowl of a food processor with the dough blade attached. Pulse three times to mix together.

Place butter and shortening in the work bowl and mix until it resembled coarse sand. Add buttermilk and mix until dough comes together.

Dump dough onto a floured surface and fold dough over onto itself, kneading it until it gets soft. Do not knead for over a minute or the heat of your hands will cause the dough to become too soft.

Roll dough out to 1/2 to 1 inch thick and press into 3-inch rounds. Place rounds onto a sheet pan and bake until biscuits are a light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

Eat and enjoy!

P.S. If you’ve got questions about how all this works in your food processor, go see my step-by-step pictures on my related blog post link.

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Anne McCoy on 5.2.2010

Yup, I’m with tinafromtexas, can’t wait for Saturday breakfast….where’s your house, I’ll be there….jk My family will love these with molassass or jam! Thank you for sharing the recipe AND Carroll from BC with the tip.

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DessertForTwo on 4.30.2010

Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to make this for a grand Saturday morning breakfast. Yum!!

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emilyuk on 4.30.2010

Yum, & definitely not cheating!

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Carroll in BC on 4.30.2010

And this is not cheating -it is SMART cooking!

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Carroll in BC on 4.30.2010

If you dice the butter and shortening and put them in the freezer for about 15 minutes before putting them in the food processor bowl, it makes the biscuits even flakier. I just LOVE biscuits.

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pjgonz on 5.23.2010

I have made this recipe 3 times now. The first time was a disaster (my fault – I was sleep-deprived and put the buttermilk in at the same time as the butter/shortening) and we got hockey pucks. The second time I used half all-purpose flour and half whole-wheat flour and we got hockey pucks again. The third time I made the recipe exactly as written and the biscuits came out much better! (Lesson learned!)

My biscuits did not rise and get quite as fluffy as the picture, but they were quite tasty. I might roll out my dough to be closer to 1 inch thick next time (I did about 1/2 inch). They reminded me of Cracker Barrel’s biscuits and I was wishing I had made a good sausage gravy to go over the top. As a stand-alone biscuit, they seemed to be missing something.

The cheater method is fabulous and the reason I keep trying. What a time saver! The blog post link really answers your questions, so I highly recommend looking at it before you get started.

Overall, I enjoyed my biscuits (the third time) and I plan to put this recipe in my regular rotation for biscuits and gravy.

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