Fluffy Biscuits

How to make Fluffy Biscuits Recipe - Make sure that your oven rack is set at the center position. If baked at too low a temperature, the biscuits will likely end up with burned bottoms.

12 BISCUITS

Ingredients:
1 cup All-purpose flour
1 cup Cake flour
2 teaspoons Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Unsalted butter, chilled, cut into 1/4-inch (.6 cm) pieces
2 tablespoons Unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup Buttermilk, cold

Method:
Set oven rack at middle position. Preheat the oven to 450°F (225°C).

Mix or pulse first 6 ingredients in a large bowl or the work bowl of a food processor fitted with steel blade.With your fingertips, a pastry blender, 2 knives, or steel blade of the food processor, mix, cut, or process chilled butter into the dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse meal with a few slightly larger butter lumps.

If making by hand, stir in buttermilk with a rubber spatula or fork until mixture forms into soft, slightly sticky ball. If dough feels firm and dry bits are not gathering into a ball, sprinkle dough clumps with additional tablespoon of buttermilk. Be careful not to overmix. If using a food processor, pulse until dough gathers into moist clumps. Remove the dough from food processor bowl and form into rough ball.

With lightly floured hands, divide dough into 12 equal portions. Lightly bat a portion of dough back and forth a few times between floured hands until it begins to form a ball, then pat lightly with cupped hands to form a rough ball. Repeat with remaining dough, placing formed dough rounds 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart on ungreased cookie sheet or pizza pan. Brush dough tops with melted butter or milk. (May be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 2 hours.) Bake until biscuit tops are light brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Serve immediately.