This honey butter biscuits recipe is the closest thing to having Church’s Chicken biscuits without making the trip there! Crispy and glazed with honey on the outside and soft and layered on the inside. These biscuits are so addicting you’ll have to stop everyone from gobbling them up on its own. Perfect to pair with homemade fried chicken or just about anything!
I was at my high school ASB holiday party when I had my first Church’s honey biscuit. If you’ve never had their biscuits before you need to run to your nearest Church’s Chicken now! They have the most perfect crispy, honey-slathered crust and the inside of the biscuit just melts in your mouth. They are just so darn good!
But friends, for years these amazing biscuits have caused quite the dilemma for me. You see, I am a huge fried chicken person. So much so that if you asked my closest friends, they would probably guess that fried chicken was my favorite meal. And when it comes to fried chicken, I am not one that is easily pleased. Sorry, Colonel Sanders.
I’m a loyal die-hard fan of Popeyes fried chicken. In Chicago, I surely tried my share of fried chicken joints and nothing ever came close to Popeyes’ crispy, juicy chicken. Yes, including you, Honey Butter and Harold’s. However, even with my deep devotion to Popeyes, when it comes to biscuits, Church’s is the winner in my book.
So you can see my dilemma when it comes down to choosing where to go when that fried chicken craving kicks in. Do I go with the best chicken or the best biscuit?
With this honey buttermilk biscuit recipe, I will never have to choose again. This biscuit recipe comes pretty darn close to the ones served at Church’s, and I would even dare to say they are probably healthier too. But then again who’s really thinking of calories when you’re eating fried chicken and biscuits!
Freezing the butter and biscuit dough really helps the tiny pieces of grated butter melt perfectly in the oven, and the additional folding step creates such a great flakey, layered biscuit. You can choose to keep the biscuit lighter by leaving out the honey glaze, but I highly recommend adding the glaze over the biscuits when they are fresh out of the oven for that extra ooey, gooey goodness! Y’all, I ate five biscuits fresh out of the oven, and I won’t even blame the pregnancy on this one!
Honey Butter Biscuits (Church’s Chicken Biscuits Copycat)
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 2 sticks slightly frozen butter put 2 sticks of butter in freezer about 1 hour before starting recipe
- 2 tbsp softened butter
- 1/3 cup honey
Instructions
- Place 2 sticks of butter in the freezer about 1 hour prior to starting recipe
- In a bowl mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and sugar
- Take out butter sticks from freezer after about 1 hour. Place parchment paper under grater. Carefully grate frozen butter.
- With a spatula, mix butter with dry ingredients. Freeze everything for 10 mins.
- Take out of freezer and add cold buttermilk to mixture. Mix ~10 times.
- Flour counter, rolling pin, and hands. Roll out dough into 1 1/4 inch thick rectangle. Fold dough in half. Roll dough out again and repeat folding process three more times.
- Roll into 1 1/4 inch thick rectangle and cut out circles using floured cookie cutter.
- Place biscuit rounds on a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Make sure biscuits are placed closely to each other (touching) to help biscuits rise. Place biscuits on baking sheet into freezer for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- After 10 minutes have passed, take biscuits out of freezer and brush tops with melted butter.
- Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Brush hot biscuits with honey butter glaze. Voilá, enjoy!
Honey butter glaze
- Put 1 tbsp of butter and 1/3 cup of honey in a small sauce pan over low heat. Use spatula to mix. Take off heat once honey and butter has mixed together.
Bonnie says
So so good! Oh my goodness. Everyone needs to try these. I’m addicted!
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