- For the Biscuits:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar + some for sprinkling
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch pieces
- 3/4 cup kefir
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Set rack to the middle position and preheat oven to 400°F (375 for convection oven). Add flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse several times to thoroughly incorporate ingredients. Add butter and pulse 7 to 9 times or until butter and flour come together in pea-sized clumps. In a measuring cup whisk together buttermilk and vanilla. Add 1/3 of the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture, pulse several times to incorporate, then repeat until buttermilk has been fully incorporated and dough is beginning to come together.
- 2Transfer dough to a well-floured surface, pat down and roll out to 1/2-inch thickness. Using a star-shaped biscuit cutter to cut out biscuits. Place biscuits on large baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Brush with whole milk. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and transfer to a wire rack for cooling.
Or, if you're lazy like me, melt butter, throw in with dry ingredients, blend with pastry blender, incorporate wet ingredients, make into drop biscuits.
