Okay, so I really love baking. I mean I enjoy cooking, but when I bake, I just want to make a thousand breads and dessert and deliver treats to every person I know. I mean who doesn’t love to have cupcakes sitting on the counter, just waiting for you to come downstairs and have one (with a glass of milk, of course).

Recently, I decided to make biscuits. Baking something for someone else always seems like the best pick-me-up for anyone to recieve, and I thought biscuits might be nice and cozy, I love cozy!(:

So onto the recipe, after hunting around for a simple, but butter-filled delish sounding recipe, I landed on Alton Brown’s Biscuit Recipe here.

Ingredients
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 4 tablespoons butter (I double the butter, I don’t like using shortening)
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup buttermilk, chilled
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

 

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. (The faster the better, you don’t want the fats to melt.) Make a well in the center and pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir just until the dough comes together. The dough will be very sticky.

Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Place biscuits on baking sheet so that they just touch. Reform scrap dough, working it as little as possible and continue cutting. (Biscuits from the second pass will not be quite as light as those from the first, but hey, that’s life.)

Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes.

Okay so other than the “Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs”, I rocked it out.  Getting those ‘crumbs’ before the the butter melts is a talent, and I like a good challange! So check & see how these turned out .. 

I wanted a little something to join the biscuits, so I added some honey and cinnamon and whipped this all up together. Pretty tasty!