It's hard to beat a good biscuit. (Unless it's a beaten biscuit—Ba Dum Tss!)
They'll make any meal go from just fine, to home-made deliciousness. There's just something about pulling a warm tray from the oven that will draw the whole family to the kitchen or table to start eating.
But if your go-to biscuits are feeling a little rote, then it's time to switch things up with our best biscuit recipes. We've got lots of ideas for improving your biscuit game. You can switch up styles. (Go easy with drop biscuits, or get indulgent with cream biscuits.) Or you can try adding in a few new ingredients—more leaveners will get you light and fluffy angel biscuits. Cream cheese gives them, well, creaminess.
Or you can just practice a new technique. It's well worth it, and no matter what, you'll have more fresh biscuits to eat!
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4-Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuits
Consider this your all-purpose dinner biscuit recipe. Self-rising flour, butter, buttermilk, and cream cheese are all you need for a goes-with-anything dinnertime side.
Get the recipe for Buttermilk Biscuits.
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Cream Cheese Biscuits
These smart seasoned sides are flavored with chives, asiago cheese, and a smattering of cream cheese to make them extra delicious.
Get the recipe for Cream Cheese Herb Biscuits.
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Drop Biscuits
Craving biscuits, but don't want the fuss? We hear you! That's why these drop biscuits were invented. You can get light, fluffy, great-with-stew biscuits without all the rolling and cutting (or flour-covered surfaces).
Get the recipe for Cheddar, Scallion, and Jalapeño Drop Biscuits.
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Drop Biscuit Pot Pie
One of the best way to cook drop biscuits is as a topping on a casserole. Case in point: this Mushroom Pot Pie.
Get the recipe for Mushroom Pot Pie with Scallion Drop Biscuits.
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Drop Biscuit Chowder
Here's another fine use for the drop biscuit formula. These herby biscuits are made with dill and scallions.
Get the recipe for Shrimp Chowder with Herb Drop Biscuits.
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Buttermilk Biscuits
Homemade buttermilk biscuits get the egg-in-a-hole treatment, with the addition of good bacon to take it over the top! We like to cover our tiny biscuits in homemade tomato jam for extra effect.
Get the recipe for Egg-in-a-Hole Buttermilk Biscuits.
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Beaten Biscuits
Beaten biscuits—served with ham, of course—are a long time Southern staple. We're making these the old fashioned way: with chilled lard, which gives it both the unique texture as well as flavor.
Get the recipe for Beaten Biscuits with Country Ham.
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Chocolate-Stuffed Cream Biscuits
Cream biscuits — made with heavy cream — are dense and delicious, and perfect for dessert or a sweet breakfast. We like 'em best stuffed with chocolate.
Get the recipe for Chocolate-Stuffed Cream Biscuits.
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Angel Biscuits
If you find most biscuits a little too weighty, then these are the ones for you. With three different leaveners (baking powder, baking soda, and yeast) they're so light they could float on up to feed the angels!
Get the recipe for Skillet Angel Biscuits with Spicy Honey Butter.
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Asiago Cheese Biscuits
Adding a salty cheese to your biscuits before baking gives them a richer, deeper flavor.
Get the recipe for Asiago Cheese Biscuits with Prosciutto.
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Cornmeal Biscuits
Adding a little cornmeal gives these biscuits a crunchier, flakier texture. And a little sugar keeps 'em sweet!
Get the recipe for Cornmeal Butter Biscuits with Chive Butter.
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Gator Guilbeau's Yellowstone Biscuits
These classic buttermilk biscuits come straight from Dutton Ranch's resident chef, Gator Guilbeau, who cooks both on and off screen for the Yellowstone cast and crew.
They're a no-nonsense folded buttermilk biscuit that you can be sure tastes great.
Get the recipe for Gator Guilbeau's Yellowstone Biscuits.
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Breakfast Biscuit Sandwiches
Light and fluffy rolled biscuits make decadent breakfast sandwiches. We love to take some peak-season summer tomatoes and cook 'em down into a sweet, dark jam, to put between 'em.
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Masa Biscuits
Similar to cornmeal biscuits, but with some Southwestern flavor, these biscuits lean on tamale-style Masa Harina (a type of cornflour used for making dough).
Get the recipe for Masa Biscuits.
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Party Biscuit Sandwiches
Whether you're having guests for Sunday brunch or for a big holiday feast, ham biscuits are a must-have addition.
Get the recipe for Ham Biscuit Sandwiches with Apricot Mustard.
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Mile-High Biscuits
You're probably most familiar with this type of biscuit, also known as a "baking powder biscuit." The dough is rolled out, then cut into rounds and baked.
Get the recipe for Mile High Biscuits.
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Mile-High Biscuit Sandwiches with Sweet Heat Hot Chicken
This sandwich may be the tastiest thing you can do with those biscuits.
Get the recipe for Mile-High Biscuit Sandwiches with Sweet Heat Hot Chicken.
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Trisha Yearwood's Daddy's Biscuits
Made with self-rising flour, buttermilk, and vegetable shortening, these are delicious and homey.
Get the recipe for Trisha Yearwood's Daddy's Biscuits.
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Pistachio Drop Biscuits
Okay, so maybe they're not quite as attractive as their biscuit brethren. But drop biscuits are every bit as delicious—and a whole lot easier to make. A wet dough—more of a batter, really—is "dropped" onto a baking sheet, rather than carefully sliced into using a round cutter.
Get the recipe for Pistachio Drop Biscuits.
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Cream Scones
Yes, scones are biscuits! With the addition of cream and plenty of butter, scones may not look like a typical biscuit (they're wedge-shaped, after all), but they are in the same family.
Get the recipe for Perfectly Buttery Cream Scones, 5 Ways .
