Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits

Buttermilk biscuits are a delicious breakfast food. Especially with butter and jelly! To start out, you will need:

- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4 cups four
- 2 tbsp. sugar
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

First, I preheated my oven to 450 degrees. Next, I put my 1 cup of butter and my flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium to large bowl.

If you had a pastry blender, you can use that, but since I don't I just used my hand and mixed it all together until it looks like fine bread crumbs.

Next, add the buttermilk. Stir it all together until the dough leaves the side of the bowl (the dough will be sticky. I prepared my kneading surface by sprinkling flour on on my counter. Knead your dough lightly for about 10 times, or until your dough starts to actually look like a dough, (smooth and soft).

Roll out your dough to 1/2 inch thick. If you roll it out thinner, your biscuits won't rise as high.

Use a 2 inch or your 2 1/2 inch cookie cutter. Now I don't have one, so I used a wide mouthed cup instead. This recipe will make 22 biscuits.

Place your biscuits on an un-greased cookie sheet. Bake them for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown. The biscuits will look nice and fluffy, just like a store bought biscuit.

They will be hot, so try to let them cool down a little, but still try to eat them warm.

~ The Junior Baker

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