Buttermilk and Honey Biscuits

Ingredients

• 4 cups Bisquick mix (yes, the pre-mixed pancake/waffle boxed mix)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
• 1/3 cup buttermilk
• 1 medium-size whole egg
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• extra Bisquick mix or plain all-purpose flour (for dusting)
• 2 Tablespoons milk + 1 Tablespoon honey (mix to brush the top of the biscuits before baking)

Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven at 375’F
2. Combine bisquick mix and baking powder in a mixing bowl, add cold cubed butter.
3. Work the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or
4. by rubbing your fingers against the flour and butter until mixture
5. resembles coarse medium crumbs.
6. Mix buttermilk, egg and honey and beat with a fork until well combined.
7. Gradually add the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture in
8. the center of the mixing bowl, use a fork to gently incorporate the wet and dry ingredients until mixture gathers into a soft (but not sticky and wet) dough.
9. If mixture is sticky, add 1-2 Tablespoons more of Bisquick or plain flour… just feel the dough 😀
10. Turn out the dough onto a floured surface, flatten the dough with the palm of your hands (do not knead, overworking/kneading the dough will make the biscuits tough)
11. into a 1-inch disk.
12. Using a 2-inch diameter round biscuit cutter, cut the dough into rounds.
13. Place cut dough (2 inches apart) onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
14. Combine the milk and honey. Using a pastry brush, paint the biscuit tops with the mixture.
15. Bake biscuits for 15-18 minutes, or until tops are light golden brown.
16. Serve fresh and hot out of the oven as is or spread with jam,
17. whipped or clotted cream or a drizzle of honey.