Honey Glazed Buttermilk Biscuits
Prep: 20-30 minutes Bake 30-35 minutes
A friend shared this recipe with me from a Bakery in Columbus called Fox In the Snow. I haven’t really made many doughs and definitely not biscuits so I wanted to try. This was a fantastically fun recipe. I cut things in half as I’m only cooking for me and I didn’t want to use that much while things are scarce. I also timed some things poorly and did not get to make my jam. This was still a fantastic dish. Crumbly, savory and great. So let’s get into what I did.
Ingredients
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup buttermilk (I had to make a replacement version which was 1 tbsp melted butter and enough milk poured in to make 1 cup)
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup honey
1/8 cup heavy cream
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp granulated sugar (I messed up by grabbing wrong tool and used 2 tbls and it still tasted great)
1/2 tbs salt
2 sticks butter, split up
Prep
Preheat oven to 375 F
Take 1.5 sticks of butter and slice it down into smaller patties
Add to a food processor with 1 cup of flour, the sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
Mix this until it’s a crumbly mess of butter
Pour into a large bowl (mixer bowl if you have it) and add the rest of the flour
Fold this around until the butter is evenly mixed around with this new flour
Pour in the buttermilk and knead the dough (I used my dough hook on my mixer) until it’s fully mixed and not soggy anywhere
Add to a prepared space with flour and pat (i smacked and used fists) it to a rectangle that’s still relatively thick
You’ll be doing a lot of folding now
Take the left side and fold a about 1/4 of the way in
Take the right and fold it over that so it’s three layer
Pat/pound this down to compact the layers a bit
Fold over from the right all the way covering, pat down
Fold from the top in half and pat/press down and remake your rectangle
Do all these steps over again 2 more times. It will get thicker and take more strength to press as you go
When done, you can use a rolling pin to flatten it out to the thickness you’d like the biscuits to be
Use a biscuit/cookie cutter to cut a shape straight down to keep the layers and add to a baking tray. I used a measuring cup thing I have
Take left over dough and reform the layers as you can to keep making more biscuits until you’re out of dough
Take the egg yolk and use a fork to mix with the heavy cream
Brush this over the biscuits as an egg wash
Bake for 30-35 minutes
Honey Glaze
When the biscuits are about done, take the last half a stick of butter and melt in a pan and mix with the honey
While still warm, and the biscuits are warm, pour this over the top of the biscuits as a glaze
Afterthoughts
These were all the best tastes of biscuits in one. Warm, crumbly, soft, savory, buttery, and delicious. The honey was perfect, the layers so fun and melt in your mouth greatness. I highly recommend this for any event or breakfast or meal that needs biscuits. I can’t wait to try them again with jelly or gravy.
