Airy Buttermilk Biscuits

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This is the most difficult recipe in the How to Bake email class. The dough is very wet and hard to handle; but you can do it!! Your family will love these Airy Buttermilk Biscuits.

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Ingredients

• 1-1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cake flour
• 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 1/3 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces
• 2/3 cup cold buttermilk
• 1/2 cup cold heavy cream
• 1 cup all purpose flour for shaping biscuits
• 2 Tbsp. melted butter

• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 minutes

• Total Time: 35 minutes
• Yield: Makes about 10 biscuits

Preparation

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray 8" round cake pan with nonstick cooking spray or grease with unsalted butter.
In large bowl, combine 1-1/4 cups flour, cake flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and sugar and mix until blended with a wire whisk. With your fingers, 2 knives or a pastry blender, mix in cold butter until there are no butter pieces larger than a small pea. Don't work the mixture too much or the biscuits won't be flaky.

Stir in the buttermilk and cream and let the dough stand for 5 minutes at room temperature. This dough is very wet; you won't be able to shape it as in the other recipes.

Place 1 cup flour onto a large shallow plate. Flour your hands and spoon 1/4 cup of the dough into the flour in the plate. Sprinkle flour over the wet dough to coat it. Gently pick up the biscuit with floured, cupped fingers and shape into a rough ball.

Gently toss the biscuit in your palm to shake off excess flour and place the biscuit in prepared cake pan. Repeat with remaining dough. (One way to make sure the biscuits are the same size is to use an ice cream scoop or 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop up the dough from the mixing bowl.)

Brush the biscuits with the melted butter and bake at 450 degrees for 13-20 minutes, until they are lightly browned. Brush with more melted butter, then let the biscuits cool for 1-2 minutes, then dump them out of the pan and eat while hot!