Easy Baking Biscuits Recipes

Deliciously easy, melt-in-the-mouth cookies, with just a touch of spice, these Easy Peasy Christmas Star Biscuits are the perfect Christmas treat. They make great homemade Christmas presents and are super simple – so a great recipe to make with kids.

I just love these little biscuits. They have a melt-in-the-mouth texture and are gently spiced for a crowd-pleasing Christmassy flavour. I’ve kept the spicing gentle as they are designed to be eaten by children. (My daughter, in particular, is not a fan of ginger biscuits, but will happily eat these.) I have been making these every year since my kids were very small and they are a very much established Christmas tradition in our house. If your kids won’t go near spices, they are still nice without the spices in them. You could always add a teaspoon of vanilla extract instead, if you like.

The kids absolutely love making these and they are so easy and quick to make (2 things I consider essential for any recipe designed for children to make!). When my kids were younger they needed a little help rolling the mixture out and getting the shapes into the tray… and of course putting them in the oven and taking them out again, but now they are older (10 and 12) they can pretty much make these biscuits all by themselves.

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I can’t give you an exact quantity of biscuits this makes as it varies depending on the size of cutter you use. I use a mixture of different cutter sizes and this usually produces between 30 and 40 biscuits.

Do be careful not to let these biscuits burn – they cook VERY quickly and will burn easily if you don’t get them out of the oven as soon as they are cooked. When they are cooked, they will be pale gold on top and just slightly darker round the edges and they will be slightly soft in the middle, but will crisp up as they cool down.

I start checking if the biscuits are done after about 5 minutes. I usually find they take about 10 minutes, but the bigger ones can take up to 15. If in doubt get them out. You can always pop them back in if you decide they are not quite done but you can’t un-burn them!

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I usually make stars, but this biscuit dough is very forgiving and will work equally well as bells, Christmas trees, reindeer or whatever else you decide to make!

These easy Christmas Star Biscuits are the perfect Christmas holiday baking project for kids and they make a great snack. (You could even pop a couple them in your child’s lunchbox as a surprise treat.) But they also make great gifts. Simply wrap a few up in cellophane and tie with gold ribbon for an easy peasy homemade Christmas present.

Once the biscuits have cooled completely, they should be stored in an airtight container (for example a biscuit tin or a cake tin) where they will keep for about a week.

Homemade Drop Biscuits Recipe

Deliciously easy, melt-in-the-mouth cookies, with just a touch of spice, these Easy Peasy Christmas Star Biscuits are the perfect Christmas treat. They make great homemade Christmas presents and are super simple - so a great recipe to make with kids.

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With just 6 ingredients that I bet you already have on hand, these homemade biscuits are so simple to make and I’ve included plenty of tips (and a video!) to make sure you end up with perfect biscuits every single time.

One: because homemade biscuits are delicious (obviously) and they’re so easy to make. So many people buy the canned version without realizing that they already have all of the ingredients to make them from scratch in their pantry.

The taste of a pre-made biscuit doesn’t hold a candle to a homemade biscuit. Not. even. close. Preservatives and artificial flavors, you aren’t welcome here.

Easy Biscuit Recipe

Two: because ever since I started working on this biscuit recipe a few weeks ago,  “Mind Your Own Biscuits” by Kacey Musgraves has been stuck in my head and I’ve been singing it off-key relentlessly.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Kacey Musgraves and her music, but every time I start singing my dog starts actually crying.  It’s sad and hilarious, and if I wasn’t so embarrassed by my terrible singing voice I would have shared a video of it by now. Hopefully, by publishing this recipe I’ll release myself from the endless refrain and the animal abuse will finally stop.

Homemade biscuits call for just six ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, butter, and milk.  And then more butter once they’re finished baking because of course we need more butter.

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I mentioned that these biscuits are easy so do not be alarmed by all the tips that I have for you below. These biscuits 

Easy, but technique matters and I want to arm you with all the information that you need so that you can make these easily and have them come out perfectly the very first time.

The tips are simple but important, and while some more seasoned bakers already know them, I want to give everyone an even playing field.

Fluffy Homemade Biscuits (video)

Visual clue: If you look at the pre-baked biscuit below, you’ll see that you can actually see the butter pieces in the dough. This is what you want, the ingredients won’t be well-combined like with a cookie dough and seeing bits of butter means you’ve actually done everything right here.  Hooray!

The butter is possibly the most important part of this recipe, and the way you handle it can make or break your homemade biscuits.

While you can certainly use a pastry cutter to cut your butter into the dry ingredients, I recommend freezing your butter for about 30 minutes before beginning. Then, use a box grater to grate the butter before combining this in with your dry ingredients.

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Recommend it with these biscuits, too. Not only is it much easier than using a pastry cutter, but it does a great job of finely shredding and distributing the butter throughout the mixture without overworking the butter (remember, you want to manage the butter as little as possible so that it’s as cold as possible when going into the oven).

Alternatively you could also use a food processor (like I do with my pie crust recipe), but it’s just so easy to grate in the butter that I always use this method instead.

And yes, I do recommend using unsalted butter in this recipe and then adding salt. If you want to know more about why I write my recipes this way, you can read all about it (and an easy substitution if you only have salted butter on hand) in this post that I wrote about salted vs unsalted butter.

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I know I’ve mentioned to you guys a few times that I’ve been working on a baking contest/challenge/I’m really not sure what to call it, but I’m planning a post where I encourage 

To bake along with me. The goal is to get people baking recipes they may have not tried before, and I’m encouraging everyone to share their results for a chance to win a small prize.

Well, today’s homemade biscuit recipe is essentially the base for the baking challenge that I’ll be sharing in exactly one week, so take this as a hint that making today’s recipe is a great way to get a jump start for the challenge!

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I know I talked a lot in this video, but I really feel that the tips are so important, and will help ensure your biscuits come out perfectly!

Serving: 1 biscuit | Calories: 280 kcal | Carbohydrates: 36 g | Protein: 5 g | Fat: 13 g | Saturated Fat: 8 g | Cholesterol: 33 mg | Sodium: 405 mg | Potassium: 287 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 4 g | Vitamin A: 399 IU | Calcium: 131 mg | Iron: 2 mg

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Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered an estimate only. Actual nutritional content will vary based upon brands used, measuring methods, cooking method, portion sizes, and more.