Mile High Biscuits

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• additional flour
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 500ºf. spray a 9 in springform or cake pan with some nonstick spray.
• 2 add flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt to a bowl and mix the ingredients together evenly. using a fork or pastry blender, cut in the butter until the pieces are no bigger than a small pea. fold in the buttermilk until everything is just blended, and there are no streaks of flour remain. do not overmix, the mixture should still be lumpy.
• 3 line a plate or tray with some flour and using a 1/4 c measuring cup or 1/4 c ice cream/cookie scoop, scoop out balls of the dough onto the tray of flour. flour your hands and roll each ball around in the flour to evenly coat them in a layer of flour. the dough is very wet and very sticky. place the dough balls into the prepared pan. place 9 balls around in a ring and 3 balls in the center of the pan. brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter.
• 4 bake for 5 minutes at 500ºf (middle rack) and then lower the temperature to 450ºf and bake for another 15 minutes.