Honey Butter Biscuit

I first tasted this honey butter biscuits in Texas Chicken during a fine Friday lunch with my colleagues. Everybody loves this little gems on their very first bite and one of my friend even packed some of this biscuits to enjoy them later during teatime. That's explain how good the biscuits are and i'm not exceptional either as i simply love the fluffy biscuits with my fried chicken.

There are 2 ways to make this golden beauties which the first requires for buttermilk and the other one go easy with vegetable shortening. As i don't have buttermilk handy in my fridge, i opted with the later. This is very much easy to follow vegetable shortening honey butter recipe that you can bake even on weekdays. They are fluffy and crumbly, thanks to the vegetable shortening that works magic for the perfect texture. The honey butter brushed onto the hot biscuits lends buttery and mildly sweet flavour for this gorgeous golden beauty. Serve them with crispy fried chicken or enjoy them as their own with a cuppa for your afternoon tea.

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup unsalted butter,melted
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2/3 cup whole milk
1/3 cup honey
2 tsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt


Methods

Preheat oven at 450'F or 232'C. Layer a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside

In a large bowl sift together flour,baking powder,cream of tartar and salt. Add sugar and stir.

Add shortening into the flour mixture and work with your finger by crumbling the shortening with the flour mixture to get a coarse and crumble texture.

Add milk into the crumbled flour mixture and mix well.

Dust a clean working surface with flour and start kneading the dough for 30 seconds-1 minute. Do not over knead the dough.

Cut and shape the dough into 2 inches balls and place them on the prepared baking tray.

Brush each balls with melted butter and bake for 10-12 minutes or till golden.

In a saucepan, add the remaining butter. Add the honey and bring it to a boil. Keep aside.

Remove biscuits from the oven and brush them while still hot with the honey butter mixture.

Enjoy with a cuppa