Vanilla Buttermilk Biscuits


These are simple, slightly sweet buttermilk biscuits that take just a few minutes to prepare and they can be cut and baked or frozen for another weekend. This is also a great way to use up that large container of buttermilk you bought when you needed a half a cup! (seriously why don't they make small containers of buttermilk??)

I just love them with honey or jam and some double cream.

You will need:
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup cold unsalted butter -cut into small pieces
  • 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.


Step 1: in a large bowl add flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt. Mix with a whisk and set aside.


Step 2: chop very cold butter into small cubes and add to flour mix.


Step 3: with a pastry cutter or using a food processor pulsing a few times. Cut butter into flour until butter pieces are pea sized.


Step 4: make a well in the center of the flour mix and add buttermilk. Mix with a fork to start to just incorporate the buttermilk. It will look like a shaggy mess.


Step 5: turn out mix onto counter and gather to start to create a dough. You don't want to overwork this dough, you just kind of gather the mess, pat, fold and press to form a dough.


Step 6: Press the flour in to incorporate and to form a square. Then fold one side to the center and then the other side into the center and again, press to shape and add all the flour on your board. You can flip the dough over and scrape up any flour and use a rolling pin to form a square dough. When you gather the contents and fold you are adding lots of layers of butter and flour (like when making puff pastry) which doesn't overwork the dough and makes these biscuits flaky.


Step 7: when you have your dough complete you can roll out to 3/4 inch thickness and you can cut with a cookie cutter for a traditional round biscuit or do the lazy method (which leaves no mess)
I just cut into 12 squares, bake what I want and freeze the rest.


see those nice flaky layers, they will puff nicely!


freeze some.


Brush tops with buttermilk and sprinkle some vanilla sugar on tops for a nice sweet top.


Bake 13 -15 minutes (they should have a nice brown bottom but don't over-bake)


Break open


add some double cream (which is like butter!) and your favorite jam or honey.





















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