- 2 cups – Sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
- 2 teaspoons – baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon – salt
- 8 tablespoons – cold butter
- 2/3 cup – milk
Biscuits
Prep: 15 min
Bake: 12 min
Yield: 8 biscuits
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 425°.
Sift Swans Down Cake Flour then lightly spoon into measuring cup for 2 cups.
Add baking powder and salt, sift again.
Cut in butter, add milk; stir carefully until flour is just damp.
Stir until forms soft dough.
Place on floured board; knead for only 30 seconds. Roll ½ inch thick; cut with 2 inch floured cutter.
Alternately, scoop dough using a 2 tablespoon or larger scoop onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake on ungreased sheet for approx. 12 min.
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Need recipe for biscuits, please
Hi Estella, We have a few delicious biscuit recipes. You can find them here on the Swans Down website. Happy baking!
Love these, fluffy and good eveytime.
These biscuits are wonderful and when you make them don’t beat the baking powder too much or you’ll have “Hockey Pucks”. Mine rose beautifully
These biscuits turned out beautifully!! The best tasting biscuit I’ve ever made. My only problem was that they didn’t rise very much. They were tender and flavorful, so we didn’t mind them a little flat.
This is a horrible recipe! Indeed they came out like hockey pucks!
Hi Monique, We are so sorry that you had this experience with the Swans Down Biscuit recipe. Your information was forwarded to our Consumer Relations Department. Someone will be reaching out. Happy baking!
Any advice for altitude over 3000ft? I made biscuits, but they turned out like hockey pucks…
Hi Leslie, Thanks for contacting us with your question. The Kitchen sent several suggestions for baking biscuits at an altitude of over 3000ft. We’ve forwarded the suggestions to the email you provided. Please reach out if you need additional assistance. Happy Baking!
I realize I sound a little bitter in saying this, but I’ve finally come to a point in my life where I can make good biscuits. My husband, who was raised on processed junk foods prefers those nasty refrigerated biscuits. He calls my biscuits brickets. Brat. It’s hurtful. And my biscuits really are good! But to make him happy, I wondered what cake flour would do to biscuits. So I looked it up and found this recipe. I’m hoping for good things from this recipe. Thank you! …brickets, geez.
Hi Bekah, We’re happy to see that you have found Swans Down. This is a delicious biscuit recipe. Hopefully they have the texture and consistency you are looking for. This is another great Swans Down biscuit recipe. It may be a bit denser and have more of a richer flavor with the buttermilk. https://swansdown.com/recipes/light-and-flaky-buttermilk-biscuits/. Come back and let us know the outcome. Happy baking!
I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your blogs really nice, keep it up! I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back in the future. Cheers
Love swans. Used a larger recipe 2 cups all purpose 1 cup Swans. The recipe had buttermilk instead of milk. The biscuits were cake like, melt in your mouth. Delicious.
I am known for making good biscuits…tried this recipe this morning… a disaster.. never did rise and I went exactly by the recipe. ☺️
I only bake with swans down cake flour. I love it
I’m a pie maker and am going to use this flour for my dough. I’m sure it’ll be great.
Bake all my cakes with this flour
I use swan cake flour for all my cake they come out good it make a cake be so light and delicious
A must try.
Anxious to try this recipe
I love Swans Down.
I made a chocolate cake from a recipe on the back of the box and it was wonderful! Moist, very chocolatey, delicious!
Can you add blueberries to the mixture and have blueberry biscuits????
My mama used this in her cakes mostly,but would use if out of regular flour
My mother taught me how to make a pound cake with the flour.
Dear Bonnie,
Thanks for keeping Swans Down Cake Flour in the family. 🙂
Happy baking!
I’m going to try this l love making my cakes using swans down..
Hi love the recipes