Ingredients
Biscuits
4 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour, plus more for dusting the surface
1 tablespoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 teaspoons Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Nutmeg
½ teaspoon Ground Ginger
¼ teaspoon Ground Cardamom
¼ teaspoon Ground Cloves
1 cup Butter, Cold
½ cup Apple, Grated
1 cup Buttermilk, Chilled
Glaze
3 tablespoons Unsalted Butter, Chilled
3 tablespoons Honey
pinch Salt
Instructions
Prep
1-Preheat the oven to 425°F: Preheat the oven to 425°F. In a large bowl whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, and apple pie spices.
2-Cut in the butter and grated apple: Cut in the butter and grated apple using a pastry cutter OR a fork OR your hands. Method is a preference thing. You’ll know it’s good when coarse crumbs have formed and if you grab up a fistful it sticks together pretty well.
3-Gently stir in the buttermilk: Gently stir in the buttermilk. I sort of folded in mine with a rubber spatula.
4-Generously flour a clean work surface and: Generously flour a clean work surface and keep your flour nearby to dust your hands and the dough regularly.
5-Scatter flour over the dough in the: Scatter flour over the dough in the bowl – it will be obnoxiously wet and sticky!! Just do your best and make sure to incorporate any dry bits from the bottom of the bowl into the sticky dough mess.
6-Turn the dough out onto your prepared: Turn the dough out onto your prepared surface, flour your hands, and knead it a few times. It will get easier to work with.
7-Pat it out into a kind of: Pat it out into a kind of oblong oval shape that’s about an inch thick. Fold the short sides toward the middle, sort of like you’re folding an envelope. This is what gives your finished biscuits their “layered” texture. Smack the folded dough down and press it back out into the oval shape.
8-Repeat this process a total of 7: Repeat this process a total of 7 times.
9-Cut the biscuits into 3- to 4-inch: Cut the biscuits into 3- to 4-inch circles and place them on an ungreased baking sheet or 2 round cake pans.
Bake
10-Bake for 20 minutes: Bake for 20 minutes.
Glaze
11-While the biscuits bake, make the honey: While the biscuits bake, make the honey butter glaze. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the honey and salt.
12-When the biscuits come out of the: When the biscuits come out of the oven brush them with the honey butter glaze.
Last Step:
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- Cook Time: 20 min
- Method: bake
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1g
- Calories: 183kcal
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 235mg
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Carbohydrates: 36g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 6mg
