Buttery 3 Ingredient Biscuits (Video)

Self rising flour, butter, and milk. That’s all you need to bake up delicious, flaky, layered 3 ingredient biscuits. Baked until golden then generously coated in melted butter. Make a dozen with our easy recipe! This post contains an affiliate link.

These biscuits are the perfect paired with our slow cooker chicken pot pie soup or 30-minute clam chowder! If you like Red Lobster’s garlic biscuits you’ll LOVE our garlic cheddar drop biscuits.

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Flaky layers, buttery and so SO soft. These biscuits are perfection. The secret is using self-rising flour. I’ve always LOVED biscuits, but was absolutely terrible at making them on my own. They were always flat, dense, and hard. That is, until I switched to using self-rising flour instead of all purpose flour and butter instead of shortening. Now my biscuits turn out perfect every time and are a family favorite.

Self Rising Flour For Biscuits

Self rising flour is a blend of flour, baking powder and salt. The perfect ratio, blended together, that takes the guess work out of perfectly flaky biscuits. You can make your own self-rising flour, but I prefer to buy a bag. It’s inexpensive and already sifted together with the leavening agents. 3 cups will make 12 buttery biscuits when mixed with milk and butter.

Buttery 3-Ingredient Biscuits

What makes my biscuits SO buttery? Butter. Haha, I’ll explain further. Not only is there butter in the dough, but as soon as I pull the biscuits out of the oven I brush butter generously over the HOT biscuits. The sizzling and crackling of the butter against the hot biscuits and pan is exactly what you want. It creates a melt-in-your-mouth texture and crust.

Note: If you want to lighten them up, you can skip the melted butter. When I make these biscuits for biscuits and sausage gravy I skip the melted butter since the biscuits will be covered with gravy anyway.

Biscuit Ingredients

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• 3/4 cup butter, divided (1 stick COLD, and 1/2 stick melted)
• 1 1/2 cups milk

A few notes:

• Do you need to use buttermilk in this recipe? No. I use whole or skim because that is what I usually have on hand.
• What about salt? No need to add any. There is plenty of salt already in the flour and butter.
• Salted or unsalted butter? I’ve never purchased unsalted butter on purpose, ha!  Salted butter is all I ever use.
• Why cold butter? Can I use room temperature? NO! Cold butter is essential for flaky biscuits.

How To Make Buttery Biscuits

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Place flour and 1/2 cup (1 stick) of COLD butter (cut into small pieces) in a large mixing bowl. Use a pastry cutter (pastry blender) to blend flour and butter in the large bowl until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
3. Stir in milk using a Danish dough whisk or spoon. Dough will be thick and dense.
4. Knead dough on a floured surface just until everything comes together and soft dough forms.
5. Roll dough out 1/2″-3/4″ thick.
6. Cut biscuits using a 3″ biscuit cutter. Press biscuit cutter directly down and then up. No need to twist—this makes for a clean cut biscuit with level tops.
7. Press leftover dough together and continue to cut out biscuits. I usually get 12 (3″) biscuits from one recipe when rolled out 3/4″ thick.
8. Place biscuits in a greased 9×13″ baking pan or on a greased cookie sheet.
9. Place biscuits close together so that they are touching. This will help them rise nice and tall.
10. Bake for 18 minutes. Tops should be golden.
11. Pour 1/4 cup (1/2 stick)  of melted butter over the HOT biscuits. Let them sit in pan for a few minutes, then remove to a rack.

This recipe makes 12 biscuits. They reheat beautifully in the microwave for a few seconds. Serve with butter, honey or jam! 

When strawberry season comes these biscuits are perfect for making strawberry shortcake! If you’d like a savory biscuit you can add a small amount of cheese, bacon and chives to the dough before rolling it

Buttery 3 Ingredient Biscuits Recipe

Buttery 3 Ingredient Biscuits

Self rising flour, butter, and milk. That's all you need to bake up delicious, flaky, layered 3 ingredient biscuits. Baked until golden then generously coated in melted butter. Make a dozen with our easy recipe!

4.92 from 12 votes

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes minutes

Total Time: 28 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 265kcal

Ingredients

• 3 cup self rising flour
• 3/4 cup butter divided (1 stick COLD, 1/2 stick melted)
• 1 1/2 cups milk

Instructions

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Place flour and 1/2 cup (1 stick) of COLD butter (cut into small pieces) in a large mixing bowl. Use a pastry cutter(pastry blender) to blend flour and butter in the large bowl until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Stir in milk using a danish dough whisk or spoon.
• Knead dough on a floured surface just until everything comes together and soft dough forms.
• Roll dough out 1/2"-3/4" thick using a rolling pin.
• Cut biscuits using a 3" biscuit cutter. Press round cutter directly down and then up. No need to twist---this makes for a clean cut biscuit with level tops.
• Press leftover dough together and continue to cut out biscuits. I usually get 12 (3") biscuits from one recipe when rolled out 3/4" thick.
• Place biscuits in a greased (or sprayed with non stick cooking spray) 9x13" baking pan or on a greased baking sheet.
• Place biscuits close together so that they are touching. This will help them rise nice and tall.
• Bake for 18 minutes. Tops should be golden brown.
• Brush 1/2 stick of melted butter over the HOT biscuits. Let them sit in pan for a few minutes, then remove to a rack.

Notes

The butter and self rising flour already have salt in them. Do not add salt to this recipe. 

Nutrition

Calories: 265kcal