Best Ever Drop Biscuits (Small Batch)

Name: Best Ever Drop Biscuits (Small Batch)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 6 bicuits
Ingredients: 1 cup flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup buttermilk (cold); 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (about 5 minutes); 1 tablespoon butter, melted for brushing on top of warm buscuits

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Submitted by Abby Girl

"Drop biscuits are best the same day they are made...no comparison!!! Perfect for 4 people. When you stir slightly cooled melted butter into cold buttermilk, the butter will clump. Although this might look like a mistake, it's one of the secrets to this recipe. You can double the recipe...if needed!"

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Ready In:: 23mins
Ingredients:: 8
Yields:: 6 bicuits

ingredients

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¹⁄₄ teaspoon baking soda
¹⁄₂ teaspoon sugar
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ cup buttermilk (cold)
¹⁄₄ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (about 5 minutes)
1 tablespoon butter, melted for brushing on top of warm buscuits

directions

Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 475 degrees.
Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt in large bowl. Combine buttermilk and 1/4 cup melted butter in medium bowl, stirring until butter forms small clumps.
Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and stir with rubber spatula until just incorporated and batter pulls away from sides of bowl.
Using greased 1/4-cup dry measure, scoop a scant amount of batter and drop onto parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with remaining batter, spacing biscuits about 1 1/2 inches apart.
Bake until tops are golden brown and crisp, 8 - 12 minutes. They can be made up ahead of time and gently re-heated in a 300 oven for 10 minutes.
Brush biscuit tops with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Transfer to wire rack and let cool 5 minutes before serving.
Test if baking powder is fresh: Mix 2 teaspoons of the baking powder into a cup of water. If there is an immediate reaction of foaming and fizzing, the baking powder is okay to use. If the reaction is at all delayed or weak, throw it away and buy a fresh can.

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Reviews

Craving biscuits (small batch). This is exactly what I needed. Added cheddar and WALA....trying to save some for my kids. ??

Nereida R.
They are billed as the Best Ever Drop Biscuits. They DO NOT disappoint, but the title is all wrong. It really should be the VERY Best Ever Drop Biscuits. So light & fluffy - just perfect!

BARBARA B.
DELICIOUS...and quick. I added a handful of grated sharp cheddar to the dry ingredients and got rave reviews.

Janie C.
Wow—these were so easy and so good. I doubled the recipe and got 10 full 1/4 cup drop biscuits and one slightly less than a 1/4 cup biscuit. I baked them for 8 minutes and for a minute at a time until 12 minutes. I used a silicone mat instead of parchment paper in my rimmed baking sheet and they came right up. Delicious!

Loves2Cook!
This is a great recipe from America's Test Kitchen. They double it with a yield of 12 but I only got 10 out of it. First recipe ever that really comes out like a good biscuit.

alisha.mills