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You can have Cathead Biscuits using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Cathead Biscuits
- You need 1 1/2 cups of AP flour.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of cake flour.
- You need 1 tbs of baking powder.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 2 tsp of salt.
- It’s 3/4 cup of unsalted butter stick cut into cubes.
- You need 1 1/4 cup of buttermilk.
- It’s 1/2 cup of melted butter.
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Cathead Biscuits instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a round cake pan. If doubling the recipe, use a 9x11. For this recipe I used a 9x11..
In a mixing bowl, whisk the AP flour, cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together..
Scatter the butter cubes throughout the flour mixture..
Using a pastry cutter or two knives, cut the butter in the flour mixture until it resembles a coarse meal with some chunks of butter..
Make a well and add the buttermilk in the well. Using a fork, gently toss the flour mixture into the buttermilk, scraping the sides of the mixing bowl..
The dough will be sticky so make sure you coat your hands with some flour before doing the next step..
Mix the dough with your hands, but not too much. You do not want the dough to be smooth at all..
Now take chunks of dough and place inside the baking pan just as you see in the picture above..
Brush each piece of biscuit dough with melter butter and bake about 20 minutes or until top is brown..
The edges will have a little crunch that adds some good flavor..
Very thick and moist biscuit and it is good with some honey, preserves, butter, bacon, sausage, eggs or just plain..
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