Easiest 2-Ingredient Whipping Cream Biscuits

I just baked up these beautiful hot biscuits with only two ingredients and they only took me about 20 minutes. They bake up with that perfect slightly crisp exterior and the middle turns out so soft and flaky. And the best part is anybody can bake these biscuits, even your youngsters. They're that easy. So the next time you need some fresh hot biscuits in a pinch, this is the recipe you have to make. Now, the two ingredients in these whipping cream biscuits are self-rising flour. And if you don't have self-rising flour, you can very easily make your own just by taking 2 cups of allpurpose flour and adding in 3 tesp of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt. You can make up a big batch of this and keep it in a canister and you'll always have self-rising flour and you'll never have to buy it. So, that's a little something good to know. Now, we're going to take this and make a little well in the center just like so. And if you guessed whipping cream as the second ingredient, boy, you are doing great. We're just going to add that right into the little well and just start mixing it together to form a nice soft dough. I really love that self-rising flour trick because it's pretty expensive to buy in the store, at least here in Canada. I think it might be a little more common in the States to have self-rising flour. You see it on more storeshelves, but once you learn how easy it is to make it yourself, you probably don't even really need to buy it ever again. Now, if your dough isn't very soft, which mine is not, I did weigh this flour by volume rather than weight. So, there is a good chance that I might have added a little bit too much. I'm just going to add a little bit of water to soften the dough. Not a lot, maybe just a couple of tablespoons. It is pretty important that biscuit dough is soft because that's going to give you softer biscuits. And I'm going to say that this dough is probably perfect now. So, it is nice and soft. It's okay if it's a little bit sticky. Now, on to a lightly flowered surface. Going to take my dough and just pat it out. Or you can roll it out with a rolling pin. And I'm going to share a little secret with you on how to get nice flaky biscuits. If you pat out your dough and then divide it in half and stack one piece on top of the other like this, pat it out again. And repeat that about three, four, maybe five more times. You'll be creating all these nice layers in the dough. And your biscuits are going to be nice and flaky. I'm going to just sprinkle a little bit of flour on top cuz it does get a little sticky as you do this. We'll do that again a couple more times. Stack one over the other. You might need to kind of give it a scrape underneath just to keep things nice and clean. Maybe we'll do it one more time there. And at the same time as you're doing this stacking, you're also kind of kneading the dough together so it becomes a little bit more consistent. I'm going to sprinkle just a tiny bit more flour on top. And I actually am going to start rolling this now. I think I'll go for about maybe a/4 in thickness, maybe half an inch. It really depends on how thick you like your biscuits. You don't want to make them too thick because sometimes if you have all those layers when you bake them, they topple over and that doesn't look that nice. I think that there looks pretty good. Now, I'm going to take a biscuit cutter or a cookie cutter and just cut out my biscuits from this piece of dough. And one other really good secret to making good biscuits is to use an actual cutter that's kind of sharp rather than just a glass because you can see that the sides are not pinched together. So if they're pinched, that inhibits them from growing. But this way they're going to have a nice high rise because the edges are nice and clean. Now I'm going to transfer these onto a parchment lined baking sheet. And of course, we can bring all these scraps together and probably get a couple more biscuits out of them. The last biscuit you're probably going to have to just shape by hand. Just do your best to, you know, kind of make it look like the other ones. And one optional thing I like to do is just brush a little bit of reserved cream on top of the biscuits before baking them. This is going to help them get a little more brown. Right now, you'll want to be preheating your oven to 400° F. I am using the fan setting and I'm going to bake them for 15 to 18 minutes. You'll know they're ready when they're this nice golden brown and they look well risen. Just look at how beautiful these are. Can you believe we made these with just two ingredients? For something that was so effortless, these are quite impressive. I don't know, maybe I just get excited over nothing. Now, normally I would tell you to let these cool completely like most bread recipes I make. This is one such recipe that actually tastes best when it's hot from the oven. So, we're going to go ahead and split one of these open while it's nice and hot. You can see that these are nice and flaky with those layers that we created. And I think this calls for a little butter, you know, while they're still nice and warm. I think we're going to have to add a little jam to that also. And there you have our perfect twoingredient whipping cream biscuits. I really hope you enjoyed this video and that you'll give these biscuits a try soon. Don't forget for a printable recipe, as always, I've linked it in the description below the video. Let me know in the comments how they turned out for you, and I can't wait to share another recipe with you in the next video.