Honey Butter Biscuits

I wish I blogged about recipes.

So here I am blogging about a recipe. Ta-DAH!

Since moving here, we have discovered the goodness of Church's Chicken. It's a lot like Kentucky Fried Chicken, but we really only like it for the biscuits. We love Church's Honey Butter Biscuits.

As a quick side-story, for one of Matt's Christmas presents, I made him a little punch card stating I would make one treat of his choice each month. 


Matt requested I try my hand at replicating the heavenly biscuits, so like any resourceful cook wanting to try something new, I found my way to Google, which led me to this recipe (thanks food.com!):

2 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons sugar

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

2/3 cup whole milk

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/3 cup honey

1 Preheat oven to 450°F.

2 Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cream of tartar in a medium bowl.

3 Work shortening into flour mixture by crumbling with your hands until the mixture feels like cornmeal.

4 Pour milk into flour mixture and mix well.

5 On a slightly floured surface, knead the dough about 12-15 times.

6 Make dough into balls (about 2 inches) and place on baking sheet.

7 Brush Dough balls with some of the melted butter.

8 Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.

9 Meanwhile bring remainder of butter and all honey to a boil in a sauce pan, then set honey butter aside.

10 When biscuits are done remove from the oven and immediately brush each biscuit with honey butter.

I cut down the baking powder from 4 tsp to 3 (which I changed above) just because that seemed like a lot, and the biscuits still turned out amazing--better than the real thing. And the best part is that they're drop biscuits, so you don't have to take the time to roll and cut them out. I think the biscuits took about 30 minutes to make. It doesn't get much better than that!

So if you're in the mood for delicious honey butter on a good biscuit, give this recipe a try. You won't be sorry.