Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups bread flour

  plus more for kneading
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

  frozen, grated and refrozen (1 stick)
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 tbsp. butter

  melted, or more, if needed

Instructions

• 1 Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
• 2 Add sour cream and stir to combine.
• 3 Add frozen grated butter and mix with a pastry blender until combined but do not
  overmix the dough.
• 4 Add buttermilk about a quarter of a cup at a time stirring until well blended.
• 5 Place biscuit dough on a well-floured surface.
• 6 Knead about 30 seconds working in flour until dough is not sticky.
• 7 Fold dough into thirds, then roll dough out with a rolling pin until about 1 ½
  to 2 inches in depth.
• 8 Cut biscuits with a biscuit cutter and place on greased cookie sheets.
• 9 Place scrap pieces of dough together and form another round dough with your
  hands.
• 10 (This will yield about 3 more biscuits).
• 11 Place on prepared cookie sheet.
• 12 Bake biscuits at 450° about 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
• 13 Melt butter.
• 14 Brush melted butter over top of biscuits.

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