You know that feeling when you’ve got perfectly great recipes for a variety of different things?  Your standbys, favorites.

Recipes you’ve made so many times you could make them in your sleep?

My list consists of thick and chewy cookies, homemade pizza dough, Panera’s stovetop mac and cheese, and maple dijon vinaigrette, among a bunch of other recipes, including these cream biscuits.

The problem with those cream biscuits is that I don’t always have heavy cream on hand. And when the biscuit urge strikes (and it does happen!), I don’t always feel like running to the store for one ingredient.

That’s where these buttermilk drop biscuits come in!

I almost always have buttermilk in the fridge! And if I’m out of buttermilk, it takes seconds to whip up a simple mix of milk and lemon juice (or vinegar) to make my own.

In any event, I died over these buttermilk drop biscuits. Not only do they take less time to mix together and drop on a baking sheet than it takes to wrangle a can of supermarket biscuits open, but the craggy edges and pockets of butter inside the fluffy biscuits nearly sent me over the edge.

What to Serve these Buttermilk Drop Biscuits With

Both of the times I’ve made them, we’ve topped them with our favorite sausage gravy, which makes for the BEST brunch recipe ever!

But I’m confident they would be fantastic as the vessel for a spinach, feta, and sundried tomato egg sandwich, with a bowl of broccoli cheddar soup, or in a warm, napkin-lined basket on your holiday table.

Or maybe you want to go in the direction of making a turkey meatloaf or crispy chicken with country gravy with baked or twice baked potatoes and creamed corn. These drop biscuits would be utterly perfect with either of those meals!

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Buttermilk Drop Biscuits

Yield: 1 dozen

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

With crunchy tops and soft interiors, these are the absolute BEST buttermilk drop biscuits I've ever eaten. They're perfect for dipping in soup and even better as the base layer for my creamy sausage gravy for breakfast.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup (5 oz) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (4 oz) cake flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sugar
• ½ tsp table salt
• 8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, cubed and kept very cold
• ¾ cup + 2 tbsp to 1 cup cold buttermilk
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 450º F, position an oven rack in the of the oven, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Whisk the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.  Cut the cold butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter, two knives, or with your fingers - the butter should be the size of peas.  Stir ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk into the dry ingredients with a silicone spatula until the ingredients just come together.  If the dough is too dry to drop with a spoon onto the baking sheet, stir in 2 additional tablespoons of buttermilk.  Using a large spoon, scoop out 12 equal mounds of dough on the baking sheet.  Brush the tops with the melted butter.
3. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the tops are golden brown and the biscuits bounce back slightly when pressed.  Serve immediately.

Do Ahead: The unbaked biscuit dough can be tightly covered with plastic wrap on the baking sheet and refrigerated for up to 2 hours.  Bake directly from the fridge.

Notes

adapted from Baking Illustrated by the editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine

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