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Easy homemade biscuits without milk, butter or shortening! These 2 Ingredient Biscuits are the quickest biscuit recipe and made with just two ingredients: self-rising flour and heavy whipping cream. That's it! Even kids can make them!
Since I'm all about Southern shortcut recipes, you've come to the right place if you are looking for easy biscuit recipes with few ingredients.
Two of my favorite shortcut recipes to make and serve with these heavy cream biscuits are Homemade Butter and Easy Strawberry Freezer Jam.
Ingredients to make homemade biscuits
- Self-Rising Flour (I use White Lily)
- Heavy Whipping Cream
It's a short ingredient list but be sure you get the correct ones.
Self-rising flour- Self rising flour is made with a softer wheat than all-purpose flour or bread flour. The soft wheat is perfect for making basic bisuits, not yeast bread. It also comes with baking powder and salt already mixed in the flour.
Heavy whipping cream- Don't miss the "heavy" part of this ingredient. The extra little bit of fat in heavy whipping cream vs. whipping cream makes a difference in the texture of these light and fluffy biscuits.
I invited these cuties from my Sunday school class to come home from church with me to help me make my homemade 2 Ingredient Biscuits.
Food just tastes better when you make it yourself, right?
There's just something about having ownership of a dish that flips a switch in our brain that makes us want to try something. At the very least, we are more willing to try something new. Therefore, the more new foods we try, the more likely we are to like more foods!
I showed my sweet friends that they could learn about math and science while cooking in the kitchen and that food tastes better when you make it yourself!
The girls are getting down to see the whipping cream at eye level to make sure the measurement is accurate. (Pics taken before my kitchen renovation.)
Watch the video
Watch my WBRC's Good Day Alabama tv segment on making biscuits and butter by clicking the picture below.
How to make these fast easy biscuits
Combine the self-rising flour and whipping cream in a large bowl. Stir just until the cream moistens the flour.
Don't overwork the dough.
You can tell they were having fun feeling the texture of the biscuit dough. One of the secrets to light and fluffy biscuits is to not overwork the dough.
Gently push the "shaggy" dough together to form a ball, then gently press it down and fold it over a couple of times.
Pro Tip: Kneading dough is for yeast breads, not biscuits.
Get down eye level to see if the biscuit dough is tall enough to hit the mark between 1/2 inch and 1 inch. She knows that between those measurements is 3/4 inch.
Just getting kids in the kitchen and becoming familiar with measuring cups, spoons, spatulas, and rulers allows them to get more comfortable in the kitchen.
I understood fractions so much better in school because I used them in at home by measuring with measuring cups and a ruler. I knew that two 1/4 cupfuls of flour would equal 1/2 cup of flour.
These quick biscuits are the perfect recipe to demonstrate the difference in wet and dry measuring cups.
Everyone knows you aren't really baking unless you have a little flour on your face, right?
Biscuit baking questions?
How to measure wet and dry ingredients
Dry ingredients like flour should be lightly spooned into the dry measuring cups and leveled off with a knife. Wet ingredients like whipping cream can be poured into a liquid measuring cup that is clear so you can see at eye level the correct measurement.
Can I coat a cast iron skillet with cooking spray?
No, it is not recommended. A cast iron skillet is a natural nonstick skillet. A good, seasoned cast iron skillet needs very little butter or oil on the bottom to bake biscuits. If you are using an 8-inch round cake pan or square baking pan you can coat it with cooking spray but avoid using cooking spray on cast iron.
Can I make my own self-rising flour?
Yes, but keep in mind self-rising flour typically starts with a soft wheat like White Lily all-purpose flour. To 1 cup of all-purpose flour, add 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Why do you place biscuits close together in the skillet?
The biscuits are placed in the skillet, close together, so they push against each other for support as they rise in the oven.
If you don't place them close together, they won't have anything to help push them up so they won't rise up quite as high. So, we got in a little physics lesson as a bonus.
I was able to demonstrate this to these girls when I had a little trouble getting up off the floor (Get's harder all the time!). Both of them got on either side of me and "pushed" me up with their bodies. I told them this is how the biscuits help each other rise up in the skillet.
I hope you can see that these are easy biscuits to bake, even kids can make them!
Are these homemade 2 Ingredient Biscuits easy?
I guarantee you that these girls thought these homemade 2 Ingredient Biscuits they made themselves will rival any biscuit they've had at a restaurant.
So, yes, they are easy homemade biscuits.
Of course, we slathered our biscuits with the Homemade Butter we made together and about 1/3 cup of Strawberry Freezer Jam.
If you would like to make 2 Ingredient Biscuits with your kids or for your family, the recipe is below.
Don't forget the butter! Make your own homemade butter with heavy whipping cream.
Storage
These whipping cream biscuits can be stored at room temperature in a sealable bag or airtight container.
Freezer: You can freeze unbaked biscuits by placing on a flat surface in the freezer 1 hour or until frozen. Then, place in a freezer sealable bag or an airtight container. Bake frozen, unbaked biscuits (without thawing) at 375o F for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Freeze baked biscuits in a freezer sealable bag or airtight container for up to 3 months. Let thaw at room temperature.
Other shortcut baking recipes you will love
- Best Ever One-Bowl Banana Bread
- Lemon-Blueberry Yellow Squash Muffins
- Honey Peanut Pie Tassies
- Maple Pecan Pie Tassies
- No-Knead Yeast Rolls (Spoon Rolls)
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2 Ingredient Biscuits
Make easy homemade biscuits with just 2 Ingredients, self-rising flour and heavy whipping cream. No rolling pin needed.
Prep Time8 minutes mins
Cook Time15 minutes mins
Total Time23 minutes mins
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, brunch
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 313kcal
Author: Kathleen Phillips | GritsAndGouda.com
Cost: 4
Equipment
8-inch cast iron skillet (or 8-inch cake pan)
Ingredients
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream (plus 1 tablespoon if needed)
- Melted butter or more whipping cream to brush tops (2 to 3 tablespoons) (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 450°
Stir together flour and whipping cream in a medium size bowl just untilflour is moistened with whipping cream. Your dough should look "shaggy"-not too dry. Add an additional 1 to 2 tablespoons whipping cream, if needed to absorb flour. Dump it out onto a lightly floured counter.
Gently press pieces of dough together to form a loose ball. Sprinkle surface with a tiny bit of flour and using fingertips press dough halfway flat. It will not be a pretty shape at this point. Take one side and bring it up and over to the edge of the other side and gently press halfway down.
Turn the dough a quarter of a turn and repeat procedure twice. You are incorporating air into the layers you are pressing down which gives you the flakiness you want.
Your shape should be a short rectangle at this point. Press the top down until it is 3/4- inch tall. Using a 2 1/2-inch circle cookie cutter, cut out 4 biscuits and place in a lightly greased 8-inch cast iron skillet or cake pan.
Press together and pat down again and cut 2 more; place in the pan. Be sure they are slightly touching each other. They help each other in the oven to rise to their tallest potential if they are touching!
For golden tops, brush 1 to 2 tablespoons melted butter or more heavy whipping cream over the tops. This is not necessary, but added yum factor.
Bake for 15 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
Notes
If you choose to brush with melted butter before baking, both salted or unsalted will work. I prefer salted. You can also brush them again right after baking, if you like.
Don't be alarmed at the high oven temperature of 450F. You need that high temp to raise the biscuits quickly.
If you don't have a cast iron skillet, you can use an oven-proof baking dish, casserole dish, baking pan or cookie sheet pan.
Heavy whipping cream has a higher fat content than regular whipping cream and is preferred for this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 313kcal
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