Best Buttery-Butter Biscuits
No kneading dough, just stir together ingredients and bake in a pan of melted butter for the easiest, butteriest biscuits you will ever bake up in your oven.
Equipment
- 10 inch cast iron pan
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 2½ cups flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 4 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1¾ cups buttermilk
- ¼ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Cut butter into pats and place them in a 10 inch cast iron pan.
- Place the pan in the oven for a few mnutes until the butter is completely melted.
- While butter is melting in the oven, stir together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
- Add buttermilk to the dry ingredients, and stir to combine.
- Remove cast iron pan from the oven.
- Use a rubber spatula to spread the batter into the cast iron pan smoothing it out over the melted butter. Batter will be very sticky.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until biscuit dough turns a deep golden brown.
- Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes to allow biscuits to absorb all the butter in the bottom of the cast iron pan.
- Cut into wedges to serve.