biscuits from heaven

2 cups all-purpose flour (or 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour and 1/3 cup cake flour)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup (packed) light brown sugar (can add more if you want a sweet biscuit)
5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 10 pieces
1/2 cup cold sour cream
1/4 cold whole milk
1/3 cup finely chopped pecans, preferably toasted

Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Then add the brown sugar to it and mix well. You can add more brown sugar (half cup) if one desires a sweet biscuit. To this dry mixture, add the butter (preferably in room temperature) and massage it well with the dry ingredients to get a coarse meal. Don’t worry too much about the small lumps. It is perfectly fine.

Then in a separate bowl, add the sour cream, and milk and combine well. Add this wet mixture to dry ingredients and knead to soft dough. Add some more milk if required to get smooth dough. After 2 or 3 mins of kneading, add in the pecans and knead again till the pecans are comfortably embedded in the dough.

Take a rolling pin and roll the dough to half inch thickness. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the dough into shapes and place it on a baking sheet. Insert the baking pan in a pre-heated oven of 425 degrees F. After 15-20 mins, puffed up biscuits are ready.

Wait…not yet, offer it to the Lord and then taste the sweetness of Prasad

It makes about 20 biscuits, and took me about 50 mins overall to prepare and bake and 10 mins to offer, in 60 mins, we have biscuits from heaven!

Hare Krishna