6 Ridiculously Easy Biscuit Recipes That Will Make You Look Ridiculously Clever (2024)

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Think delicious, flaky, Southern-style biscuits are too complicated? These fabulous, Ridiculously Easy Biscuit Recipes will definitely change your mind!

Although I love cooking and baking, I spent most of my adult life thinking I could never make good biscuits. It wasn't that I didn't try, but the results were often a little embarrassing and never anything to brag about. I began to think that you had to have a bloodline that included an authentic Southern mama or grandma to accomplish this skill and though I've lived in North Carolina for over 40 years, my roots are as Midwestern as you can get. But one day I ran into a technique that changed my biscuit-loving life. These six fabulous, ridiculously easy biscuit recipes will change your life too!

If you are one of those blessed Southern folks who grew up watching your mama or grandmama magically transform simple ingredients like flour, butter, buttermilk and baking powder into tall, flaky, stand-at-attention works of art, don't turn away quite yet. You might just learn a new way of doing things that will take biscuits from special-occasion to everyday-easy.

I'd feel a little sacrilegious saying that if I hadn't received more than a few statements like the ones below.

These were soooo easy and came out beautiful in 11 minutes. Delicious and I will never ask my mom to make buttermilk biscuits again because these were BETTER and EASIER – and my kitchen didn’t get trashed in the process.
Thank you from a serious southerner-these met and surpassed the mark. Wow.

Let me preface this comment by saying that I am an old lady that has been making all kinds of biscuits and bread for eons. I come from a long line of southern cooks that swear that buttermilk biscuits are the best kind of biscuit. Usually, I make buttermilk biscuits with shortening but this recipe is absolutely genius. I can’t believe that this method never even occurred to me but I am just happy to have found your recipe. My children and grandchildren request these biscuits a couple of times a week. Thank you so much for posting it.

I’ve made these a couple of times. So good and love how easy they are to make. I made a different recipe before which did not come out well. My family was expecting their Grandmother’s biscuits, who whipped them up with ease. That’s not what they got. But when I found this recipe my husband said they were pretty close, so I’ll take it!

I made these biscuits today, and I was shocked by how good they are! Absolutely perfect, and so simple to make.
These went perfect with sausage gravy.I’ve tried replicating the biscuits my grandmother use to make, but never could get them quite right, these are on par with those delicious biscuits that I haven’t had in years.This will be my go-to biscuit recipe from now on.Thanks!!

There are a lot more of these types of declarations if you scroll back further in the comment archives, but I think you get the point. Whether you're Southern, Northern, from the East Coast, West Coast or from somewhere across the wide blue waters, these ridiculously easy biscuit recipes will seriously change your culinary life!

The Original

The comments above are from the first biscuit recipe that I published back in 2016, our Ridiculously Easy Buttermilk Biscuits.It all started with a technique I discovered on the Serious Eats website, which originated with the clever folks over atCook's Illustrated. It was an article explaining a minimal-effort method for cutting butter into flour, the age-old, tedious technique used to create flaky, tender biscuits and scones.

They explained that the purpose of cutting butter into flour (with a pair of knives, a pastry cutter or your fingers) was to create evenly sized pieces of cold butter, that are evenly distributed throughout the mixture. The magic happens when these little butter chunks melt in the oven, creating pockets of steam that are essential in achieving the wonderful flaky layers and tender crumb that good biscuits are renowned for.

It's not a terribly difficult technique, just kind of fussy and time-consuming. Cook's Illustrated figured out that you could achieve the same thing with a much easier method.

The Ridiculously Easy Way!

This is how it works:

Melt the butter in the microwave. Set aside to cool a bit.
Place a measuring cup with the buttermilk in the freezer for 10 minutes to get nice and cold.
Pour the butter into the cold buttermilk and give it a good stir with a fork.
VOILA! Tiny chunks of cold butter suspended in the buttermilk.
Pour the magic mixture into your dry ingredients and you've got the same texture as if you'd "cut the butter in". Check out what I mean:

I was super excited about the technique and when my first batch of Ridiculously Easy Buttermilk Biscuits rolled out of the oven, I was in Southern mama nirvana. They were tall, flaky and... OH SO DELICIOUS!