I wanted some sort of bread with my pot roast the other night and I was about to make canned biscuits when I thought, “I have a blog now I can’t just make canned biscuits!” I found this recipe a while ago for J.P.’s Big Daddy Biscuits and it seemed simple enough. It was! Several reviewers of this recipe used butter instead of shortening so I decided to try that too, because butter.

It was easy enough to make. I always have trouble cutting butter into flour, but I found I made the most progress by pre-slicing the butter and then using one knife while tilting the bowl and using it as sort of a cutting surface. Then came the fun part, cutting out the biscuits!  I don’t have a circular cookie cutter so I used a little juice glass and it worked perfectly. Once you cut out a couple of biscuits, you have to roll the dough out again. This part got a little tricky and sticky, so just make sure you use a lot of flour on everything, including your kneading surface, hands, cutter, etc. It made an awesome, fun mess!

It was really fun cutting them out, I felt like a biscuit girl at Bojangles (that’s normal to get excited about, right?)!! I made seven biscuits with this recipes. And we definitely broke out the jam to carry these babies into dessert time.