These homemade drop biscuits are buttery and fluffy without all of the fuss of rolling dough!
Melt-in-your-mouth, they’re the perfect savory biscuit for soaking up soup, sauce, or gravy. Serve them with butter or top them with jam.
Biscuits Made Easy
We love Homemade Biscuits served with soups and stews, topped with jam, and of course served with sausage gravy.
A drop biscuit is the perfect quick and easy solution when dinner is on the go! Skip the box mix, these are just as easy!
Light, fluffy biscuits are just six ingredients away!
Ingredients
These easy drop biscuits are an everyday recipe that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
- Butter Ensure the butter is cold, this creates little pockets that add lift and texture (and of course flavor).
- Milk Again, cold is best. This adds moisture, texture and helps with browning.
- Flour These biscuits use all-purpose flour, you can substitute half with whole wheat flour if preferred.
- Leavening: Baking soda, baking powder, and a little salt to produce airy biscuits with the perfect texture every time!
Variations
This recipe is easily up-leveled by switching out the milk for buttermilk or mixing cheddar cheese or herbs into the dough.
Drop biscuits are also perfect for dumplings which are basically uncooked drop biscuits that are added to the top of chili, or a savory soup or stew!
How to Make Drop Biscuits
These 6-ingredient biscuits give a new meaning to the words ‘quick and easy’!
- Whisk together dry ingredients. Cut in cold butter with a pastry blender or two knives until it resembles small peas.
- Add milk a little at a time until the dough is thick but able to be scooped and dropped with a spoon.
- Drop dough onto a prepared baking sheet and bake per recipe below or until the biscuits are lightly browned.
How to Store Leftover Biscuits
- Drop biscuits keep best in a covered container or a zippered bag at room temperature for about 3 days.
- Uncooked biscuits will keep in the freezer for about 3 months as long as they are in a zippered bag—don’t forget to write the date on the outside! Frozen biscuit dough can be baked for about 18 to 20 minutes.
- Cooked biscuits can be frozen in a zippered bag for up to 2 months. Let them thaw at room temperature before serving.
Serve Biscuits With…
- Instant Pot Beef Stew – loaded with tender beef & veggies
- Honey Butter – spread on biscuits for a sweet treat
- Homemade Lentil Chili Recipe – a vegetarian chili
- Creamy Corn Soup – perfect for dunking
- 10 Minute Jam – a snack or dessert the kids will love
Did you love these Easy Drop Biscuits? Be sure to leave a comment and a rating below!
Easy Drop Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅓ cup cold butter
- 1 to 1 ¼ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease a large baking sheet.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl.
- Add cold butter and cut in with a pastry blender until the butter is the size of peas or slightly smaller.
- Add milk a bit at a time stirring after each addition until the dough holds together but is soft enough to be dropped with a spoon.
- Drop dough by heaping tablespoons to create 12 biscuits.
- Bake 12-15 minutes or lightly browned.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Bread, Side Dish, Snack
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I love every one of your recipes I’ve tried. The biscuits are light and fluffy, the taste was a bit bitter so will try it with less baking powder next time. Overall, I’m not disappointed with this recipe!
I like these buiscuits
These definitely didn’t disappoint! I always make baking powder biscuits, these are so much quicker and a really nice crunch. I will use the full tsp. of salt next time. One of the reviews said 1 tsp. was too much. Delish with hamburger stoup we had for dinner……..
Delicious! I find myself using more and more of your recipes. Easy! Thank you.
Thank you so much Lori, so glad you enjoyed this recipe.
I can’t wait to try this! Sounds like it would be really yummy!
These are wonderful!
Very quick to throw together, fool-proof and yield soft and fluffy biscuits.
Would love to try adding grated cheddar to the recipe next time.
I am so glad you enjoyed the recipe Pris!
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Hi Elayne, to access your saved recipes you can click on the heart in the top header bar in between the about and search button. I hope this helps!
Hi Holly, MJ here again. I still had some dough in the bowl, so I made another batch. What I did was make them too big. Even then, the burning isn’t as bad as I thought (smelled awful!) and the larger ones are edible, but the second batch I made about half the size and they turned out fine. Thank you for these recipes. I find that they always turn out and you explain them very well, with tips that answer questions that someone might have. I look forward to the daily recipe every day. So…..no burned biscuits anymore in Toronto, Canada@!
So happy you were able to troubleshoot these, MJ! And that they turned out great for you. Thanks for sharing your tips as well :)
It was really fluffy and yummy, but the 4 teaspoons of baking powder is tooooo much! I’ve already reduced it by half on the first go, even like this the taste of it was very strong tho.
Otherwise it is a great recipe. I tried it with beef fat , instead of butter. Super scrumptious
I don’t understand. I followed the recipe exactly, using butter, and after ten minutes, the smoke alarm went off and they were burning on the bottom and ruined. Oven is reliable. What on earth happened???? I did think 400 was very high for biscuits, but I have never had this happen when making any biscuit recipe. Holly….can you help? Into the garbage they go. What a shame!
I added shredded cheddar and parmesan cheese as well as fresh parsley and oregano chopped finely and they were amazing!
Those sound like great cheese biscuits!
Best biscuits I’ve ever made. Mine are usually hard enough to put a hole in the wall. I was not allowed to make biscuits for my family before my husband always had to make them. Thank you for such an easy recipe to follow.
It’s great to hear that these worked out for you Annette! Thanks for sharing!
I tried this drop biscuit recipe for the first time today. I am trying out my new motorhome this weekend and husband wanted biscuits and gravy. I didn’t have my recipe or the baking mix I use for camping but I do have internet and a few basic ingredients. They were buttery, soft and delicious and of course easy-peasy! For camping Drop Biscuits are the easiest to make and drop biscuits recipes are so versatile! I cant wait to use this recipe to make the drop version of red lobster style ‘cheddar bay biscuits’ or yummy dumplings for our stew! I recommend this recipe for someone who wants something easy and delicious. Thanks Holly for the awesome recipes!
That is wonderful Debbie! So happy these worked for you, the perfect way to break in a new motorhome!
I am on a low sodium diet so they were a bit salty for me. Next time I will cut the salt in half. Otherwise, perfect drop biscuits!
These were so delicious! I’ve them last minute to go with the beef stew I made for dinner. Extremely easy and oh so good! Thank you for the emails, I just happened to receive this recipe this morning and remembered just in time to make them tonight!
Ahh perfect timing! So glad you enjoyed these!
These drop biscuis were perfect with the Creamy Cannellini soup (thanks, Holly). A perfect bake after 12 minutes. I’ll make these one morning to enjoy straight out of the oven, slathered with some butter and homemade raspberry jam!
So glad you loved these Lori!
Can I use butter milk instead of milk ?
Hi Debbie, yes! This recipe can be made with buttermilk, we also have this delicious buttermilk biscuit recipe you might enjoy!