Soft, flaky, and buttery, these easy homemade buttermilk biscuits are made using a simple recipe that can be ready in 30 minutes. Perfect for a weekend breakfast, or for serving with chilli or stew.
Originally published on October 7, 2021, updated on December 8, 2025.
A dry biscuit is a complete turn-off for us, but these biscuits are moist and flaky. They have quickly become a favourite recipe and are often requested for Sunday game days, served with our homemade chilli.
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Ingredients For Buttermilk Biscuits
This recipe is made using these six ingredients:
- All-purpose flour.
- Baking powder.
- Baking soda.
- Salt.
- Butter.
- Buttermilk.
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Tools To Make Biscuits
For this recipe, a biscuit cutter is not needed. These biscuits are cut into squares instead of the traditional round shape. This saves time because you don’t need to cut the dough, then roll it out again. The dough is simply rolled into a rectangle and cut with a sharp knife. We have found that there is less waste this way, because you are using all the dough.
If you prefer the biscuits to be round, you can use a biscuit cutter or a glass dipped in flour to cut the dough instead.
Tips For Making Biscuits
For the best results, the butter should be as cold as possible and cut into small cubes. We like to cut the butter into small cubes or grate it and place it in the fridge while we gather the rest of the ingredients.
For even more buttery flavour, brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter as soon as they come out of the oven.
Serving Biscuits
These quick and easy biscuits are great for serving with any comfort food like chilli or mac and cheese. We also like these on the side of a bowl of soup.
These biscuits can also be served at breakfast. They are great toasted with egg, bacon, and cheese. Or try them topped with a poached egg, Canadian bacon, and Hollandaise sauce for a twist on Eggs Benedict.
These are also great with Turkey Breakfast Sausage and cheese. Dip them in sausage gravy for an even more delectable treat.
And of course, these are perfect with fried chicken, fries, gravy, and coleslaw, especially if you dip them in the gravy.
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Quick and Easy Buttermilk Biscuits
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Butter a 13 x 9 pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add in cold butter cubes and using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour mixture.
- Continue cutting the butter and flour together until is resembles coarse crumbs.
- Using a large spoon, stir in the buttermilk until combined, don't over mix.
- Turn dough out on to a well floured surface.
- Using your hands, gently work the dough together. If it is too sticky, add a little flour to make it more manageable.
- Once the dough has come together, fold it over on itself.
- Gently flatten the dough out.
- Rotate the dough 90° and fold over again. Do this 4-5 more times.
- Use your hands to flatten the dough into a large rectangle about an 1-1¼ inches thick
- Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 12 squares.
- Place the squares into the greased pan.
- Bake biscuits in preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool in pan for 3-4 mins.
- Serve warm.
