My Poor Attempt at Homemade Biscuits

I grew up eating biscuits from the can and occasionally my dad would make "homemade" biscuits but they were made with Bisquick. I've been forgetting to grab some canned biscuits at the grocery store. This morning, Dane was begging for biscuits so I decided to try making them from scratch…..

The original recipe can be found here but I will post it:


Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour 
1 teaspoon sugar 
1 tablespoon baking powder 
1 teaspoon salt 
8 tablespoons butter, cubed (I softened and didn't see the cubing step)
3/4 cup milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Cut butter into mixture until it begins to look like cornmeal. This is when I realized my pastry blender is in Louisiana but a fork worked just fine.

Make a well with flour mixture and slowly add milk into the middle. Knead dough with your fingers and add milk when necessary. I added all of the milk slowly, even though it looked like I should have stopped after 1/2 cup or so. Roll out dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll out to desired thickness. There was no rolling with my glob of goo. Cut with small biscuit cutter. This step was also omitted for obvious reasons. I dropped globs onto the pan.

Butter bottom of skillet and place biscuits in pan. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Mine didn't exactly get golden. The bottoms were getting dark so I took them out of the oven.

I'm not sure what went wrong with mine but they looked nothing like Paula's.

 Even though my biscuits were lumpy and weren't golden brown, they were simply delicious! I will give them another try in days to come and will hopefully perfect them!

The kids said they were the BEST biscuits that they ever had. Works for me!