3 Ingredient Biscuits

Ingredients for 3 Ingredient Biscuits

Common ingredients make the best homemade biscuit recipe. Here is everything you need for these buttery biscuits:

1. Self-Rising Flour. Self rising flour is flour that already contains baking powder and a bit of salt. (See below for instructions on how to use all purpose flour if you do not have self-rising flour.)

2. Cold Salted Butter. Butter gives biscuits great flavor! The butter used should be cold and only taken out of the refrigerator when it’s time to use it. Room temperature butter won’t work here.

3. Lemon-lime Soda. Lemon-lime soda with the two most popular brands being Sprite or 7up might be an unusual ingredient, but the soda provides much-needed moisture to biscuit dough. The gas that forms bubbles in the drink acts like a leavening agent, causing the biscuits to rise.

Pantry notes

• Flour: You could use regular flour for these biscuits. See directions below on how to make your own self-rising flour using flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Regular Milk or Buttermilk: You could substitute the soda with cold whole milk or cold buttermilk. 3 ingredient buttermilk biscuits are equally good! To make your own buttermilk, add a tablespoon of lemon juice to one cup of regular milk.
• Shortening: Try using shortening instead of butter.
• Sour Cream: Sub half a cup of sprite for sour cream to add a satisfying tang.

How it comes together

These are the easiest biscuits ever! Here are step-by-step instructions on how to make them.

1. Grate the cold butter into a large mixing bowl using the large holes of a box grater.

2. Add in flour and mix together butter and flour using your fingertips until the butter is evenly distributed across the flour.

4. Add Sprite or 7 Up to the butter-flour mixture and mix gently to form a dough, adding more soda as needed.

5. Place the dough on a generously floured surface and roll it into half to 3/4 inch thick.

6. Cut dough into rounds using the rim of a glass, cup or a 2.5-inch biscuit cutter or cookie cutter. Here is the biscuit cutter we use.

7. Place biscuits on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You could also place the biscuits in a buttered cast iron skillet.

8. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown.

And that, our friends, is how you make Southern Biscuits. Also, check out this recipe for Cornbread Without Buttermilk.

Feel free to add other ingredients into your biscuit dough like cold shredded cheddar cheese, fresh herbs like chives, cooked and crumbled bacon, or even fruits like blueberries. We recommend you master this as a go-to recipe first then you can customize it however you like.

3 Ingredient Biscuits Without Milk

Yes, you can make 3 ingredient biscuits without milk. No milk or buttermilk is needed for this recipe!

We came up with this recipe because we wanted to make biscuits for breakfast, but there wasn’t any milk at home. But there was Sprite! So we used Sprite instead.

The Sprite biscuits turned out quite good! Our daughter even said they were her favorite biscuits!

Cook notes

1. Use cold butter always when making biscuits. Cold butter will create air pockets as the biscuits bake, creating tall biscuits with flaky layers. Never use softened butter for biscuits.
2. Grate the butter using the large holes of a box grater so it easily incorporates with the flour. If you don’t have a box grater, try cutting the butter into pea-sized shapes and incorporate it into the flour using a pastry cutter.
3. Never overmix biscuit dough. Unlike yeasted dough, you do not need to knead biscuit dough. Mix until just combined. If you overmix biscuit dough, it will toughen up.
4. Roll biscuit dough into a triangle and fold in thirds to create layers. Repeat the process 3 times for beautifully layered biscuits.
5. If your biscuits are not golden brown by the time they are done, turn on the oven broiler and let it brown the biscuits for about 1 minute or until golden brown.
6. Brush biscuits with melted butter as soon as they come out of the oven for them to look glossy and more appealing

What To Serve With Biscuits?

1. Jam. Check out our homemade Strawberry Jam, our Mixed Berry Jam and our Pineapple Jam recipes.

2. Butter. Biscuits served warm with butter slathered on top are worth making again! We love them with some good Kerrygold butter! Honey butter has been a recent favorite of ours to enjoy with biscuits.

3. Whipped Cream. Consider pairing jam with whipped cream on biscuits for an incredible experience.

4. Ham and Cheese. Fill biscuits with ham and cheese to make breakfast sandwiches.

5. Gravy. Biscuits and gravy are a great savory meal.

For an impressive Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish, check out our Challah Dinner Rolls.

Tools For Making Homemade Biscuits (affiliate)

• Boxed Grater
• Biscuit Cutter
• Mixing Bowls
• Baking Sheet
• Parchment Paper

Side note: we don’t understand people who throw away dough just because it doesn’t form a biscuit the same size as others. We always attach whatever dough is left after cutting the biscuits to the side of our batch of ‘neat’ biscuits. That way we don’t waste anything and we have a cook’s treat! By the way, the last biscuit you make is always the ugliest!

• Yield: 12 biscuits
• Prep: 10 minutes
• Cook: 15 minutes
• Total: 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 8 tablespoons salted butter (110 grams), cold
• 3 cups self-rising flour (375 grams), See recipe notes on how to use regular flour if that's what you have
• 3/4 cup Sprite or 7 Up (180 ml)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. Grate cold butter into a large mixing bowl.
3. Add in self-rising flour and gently mix the butter and flour with finger tips until combined. Do not overmix.
4. Add in the Sprite or 7UP and mix to form a dough. Stop mixing once all ingredients are combined. If the dough is tough and not coming together easily, add more soda in litte bits until the dough is combined.
5. Sprinkle flour generously over a working surface. Place the dough on the surface and gently roll into a 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick rectangle. Cut into 2.5 inch circles.
6. Place the cut-out dough close together (all portions should be touching) on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
7. Bake in preheated oven for about 12 minutes until golden brown.
8. Remove and brush the top with melted butter if desired.

Notes

Golden brown biscuits: If your biscuits don’t turn out brown on top, you could turn on the oven broiler for 1 minute to brown the top. Watch the biscuits closely though because the oven-broiler could quickly burn them.

Regular flour: If you only have regular flour, you could still make these biscuits! You’ll have to add the baking powder and salt yourself. For every 1 cup of all-purpose or plain flour, add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt to make your own self-rising flour. To avoid the biscuits having a metallic after-taste use aluminum-free baking powder.

Measuring the Sprite or 7Up: When measuring the soda for the biscuits first pour it into a cup, let the bubbles settle then add more soda to have the correct quantity.