Biscuit

13 Biscuit Recipes to Warm Up Your Bread Basket

These easy recipes will get freshly baked biscuits on your table in no time.

November 2, 2022

You can improve pretty much any meal by adding a biscuit that's warm from the oven. Start with one of these biscuit recipes and it won't be long until you’re spreading on a gilding touch of honey butter, jam, or mustard. These biscuits are great in a holiday bread assortment, and they can also be the star of your nextsandwich. Shake up your carton of buttermilk and scroll down to find your new favorite.

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Buttermilk Biscuits With Honey Butter

Any of our biscuit recipes could benefit from a swipe of this honey butter. Watchthis videofor biscuit-making tips—and to learn what makes this particular version so dreamy.

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Sourdough Biscuits

If you've been baking sourdough bread for awhile, you have run out of ways to use up theexcess starter. Don't pour it down the drain—make these biscuits! (If you use a water-based starter, they can even work for vegans!)

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Crusty Buttermilk Biscuits

For a flaky texture so fluffy and airy that the biscuits almost float off the plate, use lard and White Lily flour in these buttermilk biscuits.

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Fluffy Cathead Biscuits With Honey Butter

This hand-rolled biscuit recipe produces a fluffy (rather than flaky) biscuit, ready to be split and spread with whatever you like.

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Spinach and Cheese Slab Biscuits

This tray of biscuits can be customized with whatever vegetables you have on hand—roasted squash and charred poblanos are particularly good. Split them open and top with a fried egg for breakfast.

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3-Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits

This recipe is so easy, you can have biscuits on the table in under 25 minutes.Brunchis served!

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Cracked Black Pepper Pull-Apart Biscuits

Lots of freshly ground black pepper flavors these biscuits, which are made with a mix of all-purpose flour andcake flour. These are particularly nice served with a wintry stew at dinnertime.

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Lara Ferroni

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Angel Biscuits

These light and airy biscuits owe their texture to three leavenings: yeast,baking soda, and baking powder.

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Vegan Biscuits With White Bean and Tempeh Gravy

Here's a recipe for biscuits and gravy that you can enjoy even if you're skipping meat and dairy these days.

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Sour Cream and Onion Biscuits

Using sour cream instead of cream or buttermilk gives these tender biscuits a particularly rich, tangy flavor.

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Elinor Carucci

11/13

Sweet Potato Biscuits with Ham, Mustard, and Honey

Your bread basket could use a littlesweet potatoin it.

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Sour Cream Biscuits With Sausage Gravy

Repeatedly folding and rolling the biscuit dough yields lots of flaky, individuated layers that pull apart neatly when you eat them.

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Sour Cream and Scallion Drop Biscuits

Nothing's simpler than a drop biscuit recipe—just use two spoons to dollop ½-cupfuls of dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

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