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Flaky Biscuit

This is my go-to biscuit recipe for making the flakiest, most delicious biscuits I’ve ever tasted. In this recipe, I break down the techniques and steps to help you make them successfully at home.
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Ingredients 

  • 230 g or 1/2lb unsalted european butter, plugra or kerrygold, frozen
  • 425 g or 3.4c ap flour
  • 8 g or 1 1/4tsp salt
  • 15 g or 1 1/4Tbsp granulated sugar
  • 15 g or 1Tbsp baking powder
  • 3 g or 2/3tsp baking soda
  • 300 g or 1 1/4c whole buttermilk

Instructions 

  • Grate frozen butter on large holes of box grater.
  • Add flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda to a bowl and whisk together. Add frozen grated butter then use your fingers to crumble butter fakes into the flour to create a gravely texture. Work quickly to keep from melting the butter.
  • Drizzle in buttermilk while stirring the mixture. Flip the dough mix out onto a well floured work surface.
  • Press the powdery mess of dough into a rough rectangle. Use a rolling pin to roll dough out into an 18"/45cm long, 6-7"/17cm wide rectangle.
  • Now fold the dough - fold top third down over the middle third, then fold bottom (unfolded dough) up over the now folded 2 layers.
  • Rotate entire folded mass 90 degrees and use rolling pin to roll out into an 18"/45cm long rectangle again. Fold again as you did the first time.
  • Rotate 90 degrees again and flip to the back side. Use rolling pin to roll into an 18"/45cm long rectangle a third time. Fold again.
  • Rotate 90 degrees, roll, rotate 90 and roll. In total, you're rolling and folding 5 times.
  • After the fifth fold, flip dough so the bottom side is facing up again and use the rolling pin to pound and flatten the dough just a bit.
  • Place on a tray, cover with a towel, and refrigerate for about 10 minutes to firm up the butter and relax gluten.
  • Place the now cooled dough onto a floured worksurface and slowly roll out into a 10"x10" (25cm) square.
  • Use a floured knife or bench scraper to cut dough into 9 even squares.
  • Transfer those squares to a parchment lined sheet tray.
  • Preheat oven and freeze the cut biscuit dough for 20 minutes.
  • After removing dough from freezer, brush tops of buscuits with melted butter then bake at 400F/205C for 20-24 minutes, rotating the tray halfway through baking.
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