Is there anything better than homemade biscuits with honey? Yes! Homemade honey butter biscuits! These babies are everything you love about a Southern classic, lightly sweetened with honey. And you can slather them with a delightful honey butter spread to boot. Homemade biscuits might sound intimidating, but I’d like to encourage you to give them a try anyway. It takes a little practice, but they come together in no time once you get the hang of it. Plus, I’m sharing all my best tips so you can avoid making the same mistakes I did in the beginning. 😅 The key to perfectly baked biscuits is keeping the butter from melting while you make the dough. Grate the butter frozen, not refrigerated, and avoid overworking the dough with warm hands, and you should be golden! ✨ While freezing-cold butter is the #1 tip for great biscuits, accurate measuring is also important. Measuring by weight is the way to go if you have a kitchen scale. Otherwise, fluff the flour in the container, then scoop it with a spoon into your measuring cup. Also, making sure your baking soda hasn’t expired contributes to light and fluffy honey butter biscuits.
Recipe Ingredients
How to Make Honey Butter Biscuits
Make the Biscuit Dough
Dry Ingredients – Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt into a large mixing bowl. (Photo 1) Butter – Then quickly grate frozen butter into the flour mixture—grated frozen butter ensures even fat distribution throughout the dough, making light and fluffy biscuits. (Alternatively, cut cold butter into the flour with a pastry blender until it resembles coarse crumbs (it may take around 5 minutes). The mixture should be crumbly with pea-size chunks. (Let the bowl chill in the fridge to keep the butter cold if you’re not making the biscuits immediately.) (Photo 2) Prep Buttermilk – In a small bowl, mix the honey and buttermilk. (Photo 3) Make Dough – Make a well in the center of the flour and add the honey and buttermilk mixture. Mix just until the ingredients come together. (Photos 4-5) Knead Carefully – Sprinkle flour on a board or clean surface, and knead dough 4-5 times. Avoid overmixing. (Photos 6-7) Roll – Gently pat the biscuit dough on the floured surface with your hands or roll it with a rolling pin to about ½ inch thick. (Photo 8) Cut out the biscuits with a 2- or 3-inch biscuit cutter or a rim of a glass. Push straight down firmly, then pull the cutter up. Gently loosen the dough from the cutter with your fingers, then arrange the biscuits on your greased or parchment-paper-lined baking sheet, spacing them out equally. (Photos 9-10) Scraps – Knead leftover dough scraps together and repeat until all the biscuit dough is used up. The last few biscuits might not be as pretty as the others, but they will still pass the taste test.
Make the Honey Butter Biscuits
Brush – Lightly brush each biscuit with buttermilk or cream. Bake them at 400℉ (205℃) for 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. (Photo 11) Serve – Remove them from the oven, immediately brush them with honey or honey butter, and serve with more honey butter on the side if desired. Honey Butter – Beat the softened butter and honey in a medium bowl until light and fluffy. Give the honey butter a taste. If you want it sweeter, add a bit more honey. If it’s too sweet, add a bit more butter. (Use the honey butter immediately or store it in an airtight container in the fridge. It should stay good for up to two weeks.) (Photo 12)
Recipe Variations
Tips and Tricks
Make-Ahead Instructions
These honey butter biscuits do great in the freezer, so feel free to make them up to three months in advance. You can freeze them raw or cooked. Fast freeze them on a baking sheet, then pop them into a freezer ziplock bag when frozen. Squeeze all the air out you can, and freeze them. If you freeze them raw, pop them in the oven to bake as-is. There’s no need to thaw them. Just note they’ll take a little longer to cook.
Serving and Storage Instructions
Serve honey butter biscuits hot out of the oven or at room temperature. They taste great either way. Store leftover biscuits in the fridge in an airtight bag for 2-3 days. You can heat them in the oven, toaster oven, or microwave if you want to eat them warm.
What Goes With Honey Butter Biscuits
Serve honey biscuits with classic Southern meals like smoked pulled chicken with mac and cheese and green bean casserole. Or you can serve them as part of a hearty breakfast alongside a Western omelet or hashbrown breakfast casserole.
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