Easy 3 Ingredient Biscuits

It’s quick and easy to have the best flakey biscuits on the table in 20 minutes with three ingredients and my three baking tips. Why save homemade biscuits for special occasions? This simple biscuit recipe makes them perfect for any time. So, let’s get started, and you’ll see these truly are the easiest 3 ingredient biscuits ever!

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I love biscuits or scones. Doesn’t everyone? Like many, though, I hadn’t had positive experiences making them.

Well, this fast and easy homemade biscuits recipe will completely erase all of those past mistakes. Making the best 3 ingredient biscuits is within your reach! I guarantee it.

Let me share a few of my tips with you for How to Make Quick and Easy Biscuits with only 3 ingredients!

What 3 Ingredients You Need for the Easiest Homemade Biscuits

1. Self rising flour (for all purpose flour, see below)
2. Heavy cream
3. Salt

That’s it!

If you don’t have self rising flour in your pantry, see how to make your own easy self rising flour below.

Before you know it, you’ll pull these delicious, flaky 3 ingredient biscuits with heavy cream out of the oven.

No cream on hand? We have simple biscuit recipes that don’t use cream, too!

Check out our tender Buttermilk Drop Biscuits that use buttermilk instead of cream. Or our 3 ingredient drop biscuits that use milk and butter. For a little kick, try our cheddar jalapeno drop biscuits.

How to Make This Simple Biscuit Recipe

Read on to discover my 3 simple tips for creating the perfect from-scratch biscuits in only 20 minutes using these 3 basic – but must have – ingredients.

Easy Baking Tip #1: The Flour

Initially, I thought self-rising flour was the secret ingredient for making the perfect biscuit. After all, that’s what I used the first time my biscuits came out beautifully flakey and tall.

Then I began using organic flour, and I couldn’t find an organic self-rising flour. So, I did what anyone would do and turned to Google.

Through a little research, I found that soft winter wheat is an ideal flour for making biscuits. It’s low in protein and has a lower gluten.

A search for organic soft winter wheat brought me to organic 00 flour. I already used that for pizza dough. But, after trying it, it’s one of my favorite flours to use for biscuit making.

TFN’s Tip: Make your own self-rising flour to keep on hand.

Special flours aside, you can use all purpose flour with the changes below OR use self-rising flour.

Turn All-Purpose Flour to Self-Rising Flour

Turn all-purpose flour into self-rising flour with this simple recipe. It makes enough for two batches of biscuits.

• 4 cups of flour
• 2 tablespoons of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of salt

Mix well, and store in a container at room temperature.

Easy Baking Tip #2: The Fat

Heavy cream is high in fat and is easy to use. You could use a combination of butter and buttermilk or milk to get that amount of fat. But, it requires more mixing.

Pouring in cold cream is just easier.

Trust me. You don’t want to try substituting whole or low-fat milk for heavy cream in this simple biscuit recipe! Heavy cream makes all the difference in the world for the best moist and flaky biscuits.

Here’s a quick comparison: heavy cream contains 36-40% milk fat, while whole milk has 3.5-4% milk fat. When making biscuits with just 3 ingredients, the right amount of fat is essential for the best and flakiest biscuits!

If you’re looking for that classic buttery flavor from using cold butter in your biscuit recipe, brush on a little melted butter after baking. Or make my easy drop biscuits made with milk and butter.

Or, you can even add a pat in the middle before baking to give them that buttery taste.

Easy Baking Tip #3: The Techniques

There are two simple techniques to achieve fluffy, flaky homemade biscuit perfection…

The first important technique is folding.

The dough is patted out flat and folded like a letter several times over to create those beautiful layers.

The second technique to perfection is properly cutting the dough.

Press down and come straight up when you are cutting out the biscuits from the dough.

NO twisting! Moving the cutter side to side seals up the edges and prevents them from rising.

So, it’s straight down and up for the highest rise!

If you’re looking for biscuits you can make without a biscuit cutter, check out our cheddar bay biscuits recipe. Just mix, drop, and bake. They truly are that easy!

Additional Prep Tips for the Best Homemade Biscuits

• Consider using a food processor to mix the ingredients, especially if your kitchen is warm. On the other hand, keeping the dough as cool as possible is essential during preparation. So, the less you handle the dough, the better.
• Heavy cream is an essential ingredient. It has a high-fat content (36%-40%). Compare that to milk’s fat content of 3-4% for whole milk and 2% for low-fat. High fat is an essential ingredient of biscuits. So again, don’t substitute regular milk or half-n-half for the cream in these homemade biscuits.
• Use a cast-iron skillet for baking instead of a sheet pan to create “cathead” style pull-apart biscuits. These biscuits are clustered together.
• A hot oven is essential for the best rise possible. Wait until your oven is to temperature before adding the 3 Ingredient biscuits.
• Use these biscuits as a dessert? Skip the salt and substitute it for a tablespoon of sugar. Then you have the perfect shortcakes for that fruit!

Now that you know the easy baking tips for making the perfect 3 ingredient biscuits let’s make a batch – or two!

These truly are the easiest homemade biscuits ever.

Get more Easy Recipes Using Self Rising Flour:

• Cranberry Almond Scones
• Mini Cheese Biscuits
• Banana Bread with Self Rising Flour

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Easiest Ever 3 Ingredient Biscuits Recipe

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Now that you know my 3 easy baking tips and that you only need 3 simple ingredients to make the easiest and most delicious self-rising biscuits, go and make some!