These light and fluffy sour cream biscuits can be made with just three ingredients and a few minutes of your simple mixing! It’s a simple biscuit recipe that’s perfect when you want the best biscuits without all the fuss!
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I crave biscuits more than I can admit. Whether it be to make biscuits and gravy (this is the best sausage gravy ever), breakfast sandwiches, or even to use as the buns in my copycat chicken minis, sometimes you just need biscuits.
But let’s face it, making fluffy biscuits or homemade buttermilk biscuits can be a pain. You have to make the biscuit dough, cut in cold butter, and then you still have to cut out the biscuits using a biscuit cutter.
There’s no such pain with this sour cream biscuits recipe. You just mix, drop the dough onto the baking sheet, and bake!
If you want an easy recipe for biscuits, look no further. If you want something more complicated, you can try these homemade drop biscuits instead.
Why you’ll love this
- 3 ingredients – made with three simple ingredients you likely have on hand.
- Quick – these easy biscuits can be made in thirty minutes, including bake time! Plus, the actual process is easy. In fact, you could even call them the world’s easiest biscuits!
- Versatile – homemade biscuits that are great for breakfast time or the dinner table.
Ingredients
Ingredient Notes
- Sour cream – any brand or type of sour cream will work for these. I always recommend full flat so you can get the richness of the biscuits but light sour cream will work in a pinch.
- Butter – both salted or unsalted will work in these three ingredient biscuits.
- Self-rising flour – make your own self-rising flour by combining two cups of all purpose flour, one tablespoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Regular all purpose flour will not work in this recipe.
Note!
This biscuit recipe uses three basic ingredients, but it’s important that you stick to those three ingredients for these biscuits to work. If you switch out any of the three ingredients, you may end up with something more like mush than a delicious Southern biscuit.
How to make Sour Cream Biscuits
These moist sour cream biscuits are as simple as mixing the ingredients and baking. They’re pretty fail proof, which makes them the perfect addition to any meal, including busy weeknight dinners!
1 – Make The Biscuit Dough
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Melt the two sticks of butter in a large microwave safe bowl in the microwave.
- Whisk sour cream into the melted butter. You can do this by hand or you can use a hand mixer but make sure the butter and sour cream are smooth before moving onto the next step.
- Gently stir in the flour to the sour cream and butter until fully combined. Careful not to over mix or you’ll end up with one dry biscuit.
- Set aside while you prepare the muffin tin.
2 – Bake The Biscuits
- Line or lightly grease the muffin pan, making sure to get all the way around each muffin cup. If you want to make sour cream mini biscuits, you can use mini muffin tins instead.
- Spoon the batter into each cup until each one is about 2/3 of the way full.
- Put the biscuits into the preheated oven and cook them for about 20-23 minutes or until they are golden brown.
- Allow the biscuits to cool for five minutes before you remove them from the muffin tin. Then move to a cooling rack to cool completely.
What to Serve with Sour Cream Biscuits
Serve these flaky biscuits immediately while they’re still warm! They’re good topped with most things but some of our favorite things include:
- Strawberry freezer jam
- White sausage gravy
- White chicken chili or Cincinnati chili
- Apple cider glazed ham
- Fettuccine alfredo
Expert Tips And Storage Information
Using full-fat sour cream and salted butter will yield the best results.
To avoid over-mixing the dough, consider making the dough by hand in a large bowl rather than a stand mixer.
Store in an airtight container for up to five days at room temperature.
Recipe FAQs
What is the trick to making biscuits?
The trick to making biscuits is to not over-mix the dough. Stop right when the ingredients come together.
Is it possible to make biscuits without baking powder?
To make biscuits without baking powder, you can use self-rising flour which has the leavening agent mixed it it.
Why are my biscuits dry?
Dry biscuits are most commonly a result of over-mixing the dough. Once the dry ingredients are added, be careful to not mix too much or the gluten will develop and cause the biscuit to dry out.
More Roll and Bread Recipes
- Homemade crescent rolls – these soft and fluffy crescent rolls are perfect with some mashed potatoes and turkey!
- Homemade yeast rolls – another fluffy roll that makes the perfect sandwich roll!
- Garlic breadsticks – the best ever garlic breadsticks! Once you try these, you’ll never go back to regular breadsticks.
- Dutch oven cornbread – whether you want to cook this cornbread in the oven or a dutch oven, it’s delicious either way!
- Homemade bread bowls – this quick and easy bread bowl hack will have you enjoying bread bowls in minutes!
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3 Ingredient Sour Cream Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 sticks salted butter
- 2 cups sour cream
- 2 cups self-rising flour
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Line the muffin cup with liners or spray the muffin tin with nonstick spray.
- In a large microwave safe bowl melt the 2 sticks of butter in the microwave.2 sticks salted butter
- After the butter is melted whisk in the sour cream. Whisk until the butter and sour cream are smooth.2 cups sour cream
- Gently stir in the flour to the sour cream and butter until fully combined.2 cups self-rising flour
- Using a 12 count muffin tin spoon the batter into each cup about 2/3 of the way full.
- Put the biscuits into the preheated oven and cook them for about 20-23 minutes or until they are golden brown.
- Cool the biscuits for 5 minutes, then remove them from the muffin pan.
Tips & Notes:
- Sour cream – any brand or type of sour cream will work for these. I always recommend full flat so you can get the richness of the biscuits but light sour cream will work in a pinch.
- Butter – both salted or unsalted will work in these three ingredient biscuits.
- Self-rising flour – make your own self-rising flour by combining two cups of all purpose flour, one tablespoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Regular all purpose flour will not work in this recipe.
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