Church's Honey Biscuits

Submitted by Juju Bee

"I have been looking for a good biscuit recipe for a long time, and I came across this recipe. It is a copy cat recipe for Church's biscuits from cdkitchen.com I tried it out, and it was wonderful! My husband loved them too! You should try it for yourself."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1⁄2 cup vegetable shortening
• 2⁄3 cup whole milk
• 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
• 1⁄3 cup honey

directions

1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cream of tartar in a medium bowl.
3. Work the shortening into the flour mixture by crumbling with your hands until the mixture feels like cornmeal.
4. Pour milk into flour mixture and mix well.
5. On a slightly floured surface, knead the dough about 12-15 times.
6. Make dough into balls (about 2 inches) and place on baking sheet.
7. Brush Dough balls with some of the melted butter.
8. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.
9. Meanwhile Bring the remainder of the butter, and all of the honey to a boil in a sauce pan, then set the honey butter aside.
10. When biscuits are done remove from the oven and immediately brush each biscuit with honey butter.

Reviews

[redheadedrach]

I liked these! The texture was great. Very tender. Next time I make these, because I will absolutely make them again, I will use butter instead of shortening, I will increase the sugar by a teaspoon, and I will actually put the biscuits into the oven with some of the honey and butter mixture on them from the beginning and then brush them again after baking. Great recipe!

 

[Dazy5224]

I really liked the flavor and tenderness of these, but I think next time I will roll them out and cut them. The drop shapes cooked a little too unevenly for me, but only because I have trouble not making them too big :) I also used butter instead of shortening, and it worked great. Just remember to cut the salt down a little if you are using salted butter. Thanks for posting!

 

[Nika The Mad Baker]

These were great. They puffed up beautifully and were really tender and soft. I agree with one of the previous reviewers. There was a detectable tang, i think it came from the cream of tartar. Because i know that gives snickerdoodles the same tang. I'll definetly make these again just without the cream of tartar. Oh and i listened to some of the other reviews and only used 1 tsp baking powder and 3 tsp sugar, i kept everything else the same.

 

[Meg G.]

The texture was good, the flavor was OKAY.....but it definitely tasted like baking powder. I'm going to do what the others did and reduce the baking powder to 1 tablespoon. Instead of Cream of Tarter, I used two teaspoons of white vinegar, and instead of shortening, I used butter, and when it came to the milk, I say eyeball it. The 1/2 cup of milk tends to be a bit too much, so I just used enough until the dough formed. And instead of brushing them with plain butter before baking, I'm going to use the honey butter for more flavor. I also let them sit in the fridge for a few minutes. Not bad. I intend on making them again, using the tweaks I mentioned.

 

[Soniaxsocial]

Biscuits were perfect! I did substitute the shottening for butter and omitted the salt. Flaky, tasty and sweet :).