Easy Homemade Drop Biscuit Recipe
Have fresh, homemade drop biscuits from scratch on the table in just 15 minutes! This quick biscuit recipe makes a soft, buttery biscuit perfect for topping with homemade garlic butter, jam, country white gravy, Southern sausage gravy, or serving on the side of your favorite meal, no biscuit cutter required!
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As promised last week when I shared what to serve with biscuits and sausage gravy, today I’m sharing my can’t-fail super easy homemade biscuits from scratch recipe. This is the biscuit recipe for people who don’t know how to make biscuits so it’s a great intro to biscuit making before you move on to our easy buttermilk biscuits or garlic cheddar biscuits.
These quick biscuits are made totally from scratch and you don’t need anything fancy whatsoever. Start to finish they take about thirty minutes so it’s a fast recipe too.
Drop biscuits vs traditional biscuits
With drop biscuits there’s no rolling out the dough so you don’t need a biscuit cutter. It’s the same ingredients in slightly different ratios. These biscuits are more fluffy than flaky but every bit as delicious as traditional biscuits!
Ingredients
- butter
- flour
- baking powder
- salt
- egg
- milk
Step by step
- Start by simply cutting your butter into the flour and dry ingredients to form the perfect base.
- You then add the wet ingredients and mix.
- Form the dough into balls and bake!
Biscuits from scratch in less than thirty minutes!
Tips for best results
- If you want your biscuits to be “prettier” you can easily flatten the dough out on a lightly floured surface to 2″ thick (with your hands, not a rolling pin) and cut with a biscuit cutter. I rarely take the extra time to do this because they taste the same and it keeps my kitchen cleaner!
- For the lightest biscuits, keep the butter and milk as cold as possible.
- Don’t overwork the dough or use an electric mixer for this recipe, the faster you mix the dough and the colder the butter and milk stay, the better your result.
- If the dough is sticky when you are rolling it in your hands, add a little additional flour.
Serving suggestions
I love these quick biscuits for breakfast Biscuits and Gravy with my sausage gravy or white gravy, as I mentioned but they are also delicious warm out of the oven with butter and jam as well (or even my homemade pumpkin apple butter!).
For dinner, we’ll serve these on the side with hearty meals like Instant Pot Beef Stew, Broccoli Cheese Soup, or Slow Cooker Ham, Cheese, and Potato Soup.
This is also a great recipe to have the kids help out with, it’s almost impossible to mess up and they’ll be so proud of themselves for helping!
You also might want to check out our tips for how to reheat biscuits if you have leftovers.
You might also like this Southern Squash Casserole and Southern Collards!
What would you serve this biscuit recipe with? Do you make your own homemade from scratch biscuits yet?
If you’ve tried this recipe please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Easy Drop Biscuits
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
Making biscuits couldn’t be easier! Try this no-fail easy homemade biscuits recipe for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This simple quick biscuit recipe is ready in just thirty minutes, no special ingredients or tools required.
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with a silpat (affiliate link) or spray lightly with non stick spray In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cut in butter with two knives until it’s soft and crumbly.
- Add egg and milk and stir until totally mixed. Use hands to form 2″ balls of dough and place on baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
- If you want your biscuits to be “prettier” you can easily flatten the dough out on a lightly floured surface to 2″ thick (with your hands, not a rolling pin) and cut with a biscuit cutter. I rarely take the extra time to do this because they taste the same and it keeps my kitchen cleaner!
- For the lightest biscuits, keep the butter and milk as cold as possible/
- Don’t overwork the dough or use an electric mixer for this recipe, the faster you mix the dough and the colder the butter and milk stay, the better your result.
- If the dough is sticky when you are rolling it in your hands, add a little additional flour.
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
- Category: bread
- Method: BAKING
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 236
- Sugar: 1.2 g
- Sodium: 169.5 mg
- Fat: 12.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 27.3 g
- Protein: 4.8 g
- Cholesterol: 54.2 mg
We absolutely love this recipe and have come to rely on it for consistently wonderful and easy biscuits. Thank you.
I’m so glad you like it, we make it all the time too!
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Oh. Em. Ghee!!!
These are the absolute BEST and easiest biscuits!!
They are great for both breakfast and dinner!
The recipe is spot on!,… Don’t change a thing! – just follow the directions!!!!
Put these out with a good dinner pot roast or a breakfast sausage gravy and you will become a legend!!
I’m so glad you liked them as much as we do at our house!
my favorite recipe for biscuits!! Thank you!
New family favorite, turned out perfectly, I was worried about the commenter that said it was too much baking powder but i had no issue, maybe people aren’t mixing well enough and it’s getting clumped?
Made these for my wife and she was so impressed, thank you!!
This is my go-to recipe from now on, it was SO easy and everyone loved them.I love that you give an option to make them drop biscuits so I don’t have to roll out the dough!
My wife usually does the baking and I do the cooking however, last night I came upon this and I am really glad. It was perfect, My wife and daughter loved them. Reading some of the the reviews and having never made biscuits before I was unsure. I am at an elevation of 7100ft and the baking powder and cook times were spot on!! Thank you for sharing this, I’ll be making biscuits and gravy this weekend for sure!!!
Happy biscuit dad!
I’m so glad you liked the recipe Zack!!
I’m not sure why some people give this recipe low ratings, I’ve made it at least ten times and it always tastes great for me, I’ve never had them come out like they describe ??♀️
The biscuits came out looking a little too dark on the first batch. I found they came out looking perfect at 400° for 10 minutes. The taste, however, was HORRIBLE. WAY TOO MUCH BAKING POWDER! I had to throw them all away….
I’ll try it again next time only using 2 tspns of baking powder.
Thanks ypu for your recipe though. It just needs a little tweeking.
I’ve had two other people complain of this but I cannot for the life of me figure out why some people are having this result when I’ve been using it for years with no issue (along with the others who have left positive reviews). I am going to have some fellow food bloggers help me test it and try to figure out why though Jolene, I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you.
Truly easy and amazingly simple!! Had my 6 yr old granddaughter helping out, learning to crumble the butter with flour etc!! First we tried the roll out “pretty” version. I didn’t read the yield amount but still turned out good. Next batch we added shredded cheese and garlic powder!! Better than Red Lobster!! Thanks so much for this awesome recipe!!! Definitely will be making often!!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
I RARELY make anything from scratch but I was hungry for my mom’s homemade biscuits so I found this recipe. Ooooh my. They were PERFECT! I’m actually making them again tonight.
WOW! I just tried this recipe for the first time and I cannot believe how easy and fluffy they were! They are just like angel biscuits! I will be making these every time I need biscuits from now on!
I’m so glad you liked them Melanie!!
I made these and added a little cheddar cheese to the top of them. They were awesome, I will definitely make these again!! Thank you so much to the creator’s of this recipe!!!
Thanks for the quick receipt for the biscuits. Surprisingly they turnt out really well. Considering I was short a cup of all purpose flour and sub wit selfraising and no butter use smart balance oil in place of butter unbelievable they were so delicious
Oh good, I’m so glad you enjoyed them! ~Melissa
I used this recipe a few weeks ago and my family just loved them, and i am just getting ready to make them again righr now, my boys are requesting these biscuits again!!!!
Wonderful recipe! I found this recipe when I decided on a whim that we needed some biscuits to go with our soup last night. I’m so happy I came across this one! It was so quick and easy. The biscuits were absolutely perfect! My family and I loved them so much that we made them again tonight with sausage gravy.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! ~Melissa
A few weeks ago I was looking for a homemade biscuit to go with my sausage gravy and this one was perfect! My boyfriend loves them too. He asked for this ones specifically yesterday.
I’m not sure why the previous poster had a problem, these turned out well for me, I’ve made them three times so far. Thanks for the recipe!
If I could go lower I would. I misplaced my go to recipe and made this instead. Never again! Really 4 tsp of baking powder???? I knew better but was fresh from a root canal yesterday. No more recipes from this site!
I’m not sure why your recipe didn’t come out Suz, I make this all the time and it turns out fine. I’ve put it on my list to retest this week to see if I can see any issue. Can you tell me exactly what was wrong with them when you made them? Was it taste, texture, etc? Did you use the exact ingredients as listed? I have over 500 recipes on this site and take a bad review very seriously. Thank you, Melissa
Melissa – I had the same problem- they looked lovely, but tasted strongly of baking powder. Texture was great, but bad flavor.
Best recipe for biscuits, hands down! My husband is from the South, so he considers himself an expert, and he loves them as much as I do!