SOUR CREAM BISCUIT RECIPE

Easy Sour Cream Biscuit Recipe made from scratch in minutes with common ingredients. Perfect soft, flaky texture with fantastic butter flavor. This will be your new favorite biscuit recipe!

We love having fresh bread with dinner, but sometimes I just don’t have time to make it from scratch. Enter my favorite biscuit recipe! These are so simple to make and they have great texture and flavor. Don’t let the sour cream scare you either. You can’t taste it but it adds a nice flaky texture without requiring 2 lbs of lard. Doesn’t sour cream sound better than lard? I think so too.

How to Make Homemade Biscuits

Making homemade biscuits is very easy! You don’t need an electric mixer or any special tools (although I do love my Ateco Biscuit Cutters!) Keep it fast and simple! Here are a few tips on how to make the best homemade biscuits:

1. Do NOT overmix! Just use a mixing bowl and a rubber scraper or spoon. Don’t use any type of en electric mixer as it’s incredibly easy to over mix the dough.
2. Grating the butter really makes your life so much easier. I promise! It’s super fast and works really, really well for biscuit recipes. Just use a basic cheese grater and make sure your butter is cold.
3. Remember that the dough will be STICKY. Sticky dough yields soft, delicate biscuits with amazing texture. Don’t add a lot of flour when you’re patting the dough out and cutting it into biscuits. Use just enough to be able to cut the biscuits out into circles, that’s it. Yes it gets a bit messy. It’s okay, it will all be worth it! I like to spray my countertop with non-stick spray before I transfer the dough out on top of it, so that I use even less added flour.
4. As with most baked goods, be sure to not over bake! That’s one quick way to have hard, dry biscuits, blech!

Sour Cream Biscuit Recipe

• 1 egg
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 TBSP sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray an 8×8 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, if needed.
2. Crack egg in a bowl and beat with a fork. Add the sour cream and sugar. Grate the cold butter into the mixing bowl. Add in the remaining dry ingredients and stir just until mixed. Dough will be sticky.
3. Lightly flour a counter top and use a rubber scraper to scrape the dough out from the bowl. Sprinkle some additional flour on top and lightly knead a few times. Shape it into a mound and pat dough out to 1 1/2″ thickness. I just use my hands!
4. Spray biscuit cutters with non-stick spray. If you don’t have cutters, you can use the open end of a cup, canning jar rings or simply cut them with a knife and form balls. Cut dough to form 9 biscuits. If you have leftover dough, divide it up, pat each piece flat and place it on the underside of each of the 9 biscuits.
5. Place the biscuits in the greased pan. Pat the tops down slightly so that they’re smoother on top. Bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees. Serve warm topped with our Strawberry Freezer Jam. Yum!

Yields 9 biscuits. For more roll-like biscuits, add an extra egg!

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Sour Cream Biscuit Recipe

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

30 mins

 

Easy Sour Cream Biscuits made from scratch in minutes with common ingredients. Perfect soft, flaky texture with fantastic butter flavor. This will be your new favorite biscuit recipe!

Course: Quick Bread

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Homemade Biscuits

Servings: 9

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 TBSP sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray an 8x8 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, if needed.
2. Crack egg in a bowl and beat with a fork. Add the sour cream and sugar. Grate the cold butter into the mixing bowl. Add in the remaining dry ingredients and stir just until mixed. Dough will be sticky.
3. Lightly flour a counter top and use a rubber scraper to scrape the dough out from the bowl. Sprinkle some additional flour on top and lightly knead a few times. Shape it into a mound and pat dough out to 1 1/2" thickness. I just use my hands!

4. Spray biscuit cutters with non-stick spray. If you don't have cutters, you can use the open end of a cup, canning jar rings or simply cut them with a knife and form balls. Cut dough to form 9 biscuits. If you have leftover dough, divide it up, pat each piece flat and place it on the underside of each of the 9 biscuits.

5. Place the biscuits in the greased pan. Pat the tops down slightly so that they're smoother on top. Bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees. Serve warm topped with our Strawberry Freezer Jam. Yum!

Recipe Notes

Yields 9 biscuits. For more roll-like biscuits, add an extra egg!