Butter Swim Biscuits
Buttery, delicious biscuits that are soft on the inside and a little crispy on the outside.
It would be tough as a not-really-southern-but-lives-in-The-South woman to define the perfect biscuit. Over the years I’ve made flaky biscuits, drop biscuits, angel biscuits, copycat cheddar bay biscuits, cream cheese biscuits, 7-Up biscuits…the list goes on. And that doesn’t even include the number of scones I’ve made.
The star of the show is for these biscuits is the butter. As the name implies, you bake them swimming in their own little pool of golden butter. This gives them a slightly crispy bottom and a pillowy soft center. Heaven on a plate.
Enjoy! 🙂
Butter Swim Buscuits
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter cold and cubed
- 1 cup buttermilk or clabbered milk
- 1/2 cup salted butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Place the 1/2 cup of salted butter in the baking dish to melt while the oven is preheating.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Using a pastry cutter or your fingers, rub or cut the cold butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add in the milk and mix. It will be very soft and sticky.
- Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface and knead gently for a few turns, incorporating as much four as needed until dough comes together. Pat dough its a square and cut into nine equal portions. Remove baking dish from the oven and place biscuits on top of melted butter.
- Bake for 17-20 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown on top.
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