Ready in 20 minutes, these Copycat KFC Biscuits are light and flaky; you will love these with jam, gravy, or more butter.
These Copycat KFC Biscuits are a super simple, delicious side for any meal of the day! They’re incredibly easy to make and are perfect for meals year-round! I am partial to a nice hot biscuit on a cold winter morning during the holidays, but the best thing about these biscuits is that they’re so easy; you can have them whenever you want!
I am a huge sucker for breakfast, it is my favorite meal of the day. One of my favorites is homemade biscuits and gravy with sausage and eggs! Yum. I am drooling just thinking about it. I mean , check out the flaky layers.
These are the best biscuits you will ever make, and they are so easy to make. They taste just like the biscuits from KFC, but they are better because they are homemade.
I got this recipe 12 years ago but didn’t make it until 8 years ago. Since then, I have never made breakfast that used frozen or refrigerated biscuits, as these are just as easy. Now, I can’t say we haven’t ever had those… store-bought ones….my husband uses them when he is in charge. Needless to say, the kids have deemed me the biscuit champion.
How do you make easy biscuits?
Preheat the oven to 415 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, and salt.
Cut in the butter using a pastry blender, your hands, or a knife and fork until the flour resembles coarse crumbs.
Add the milk and stir with a fork until the mixture comes together.
On a lightly floured surfac,e pull out the dough and knead until it is smooth.
Roll out dough until it is ½ inch thick.
Cut out dough using a 3-inch biscuit cutter, or you can cut it into squares.
With the remaining dough, reform and roll out to ½ inches, repeating until all the dough is used and the biscuits are made.
Arrange biscuit dough on prepared baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until risen and a golden brown.
Serve immediately or set on counter or serving dish until ready.
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Copycat KFC Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons white granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chilled butter salted
- 2/3 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 415 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium mixing bowl sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar and salt.
- Using a pastry blender, your hands, or a knife and fork, cut in the butter until the flour resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add the milk and stir with a fork until the mixture comes together. On a lightly floured surface pull out the dough and knead until it is smooth.
- Roll out dough until it is ½ inch thick. Cut out dough using a 3 inch biscuit butter, or you can cut into squares. With remaining dough, reform and roll out to ½ inch and repeat until all the dough is used and made into biscuits.
- Arrange biscuit dough on prepared baking sheet, and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until risen and a golden brown.
- Serve immediately, or set on counter or serving dish until ready to serve.
Notes
My favorite part of going to KFC is surely the biscuits! Thanks and I can’t wait to try!
I love KFC’s dang biscuits. I need to try these!
OH copycat KFC? Yes please! Pinning this for later 😀
I have never made homemade biscuits before, but I love KFC ones so I need to try this!
Did they taste like KFC biscuit
Tried these. Very happy with the results. They rise well and taste great. Not sure about KFC biscuits but these are good.
These look so light and fluffy! Yum! I love biscuits and these would be a great addition to our dinner table.
I love KFC Biscuits! They are so yummy!
I love KFC’s biscuits so I need to try these asap. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day too!
Those look so good. I am always searching for a good biscuit recipe for the morning. I love how quick this is too!
That is totally awesome! I love those biscuits!
wow!! I’m drooling just looking at the photos!! I think I need to make these with dinner tonight ;o) YUM!!!! pinning.
I love KFC biscuits – they are so addictive!
Are they southern biscuits
I love biscuits! And these look great! I used to eat those ones from KFC, but haven’t had any in years! Thanks for the recipe.
Thank you for this! Been craving KFC biscuits for quite some time now.
My husband would love these so much! Yum!
KFC biscuits make THE BEST strawberry shortcake biscuits!
my Husband made these KFC biscuits last night. it turn out great! it tastes delicious!!! will make it again! thanks for sharing.
Warm Regard’s
Amy whincester
Made these tonight and they were awesome!
I made these this am. They were delicious! However, they didn’t rise very well. I think I may have over kneaded? This was my first time, so I didn’t expect perfection. Very good, easy recipe and will make these again.
Did you turn the biscuit cutter back and forth? I’ve read that can seal off the sides and cause the biscuit to not rise.
I haven’t ever had that happen, wow, I will have to try this out.
This recipe was delicious! I used a bit smaller of a cutter per my hubby’s request, and got 10 biscuits out of the batch. They didn’t rise like I expected (I didn’t rock the cutter) but they sure tasted good! Brushed the tops with melted butter the second they came out and that was an inspired choice!
Yes sealing the edges from a cutter can cause the biscuits to form a dome shape rather than evenly rise.
I really like the biscuit recipe. I love biscuits anytime, not just in the morning. Can’t wait to try these. Thanks for the recipe.
What happens when we have no cream tarter
Hate to break it to y’all but this isn’t KFC’s biscuit recipe at all. I personally worked at KFC as head cook. Of course I made them 20 pans at a time, so I don’t know the small batch breakdown, but long story short.
1-5lb bag White Lily Self Rising Flour, (often purchased from a local grocery store when stock ran out before delivery truck came)
1-pre measured tube of Crisco Shortening, Amount forgotten
1/2gal buttermilk.
extra flour for rolling.
Buttery flavored oil (after baking)
First 3 ingredients dumped into a very large hobart stand mixer with dough hook. set to low speed for 5 minutes. on a floured cutting board with 1/2″ removable lip, scoop very generous amount of dough. Lightly flour dough and fold 8 times. pick up dough ball, lightly flour board again, then return dough to board and lightly flour, then roll out using board lip as uniform thickness guide and cut. 24 biscuits (4×6 all sides touching) cut and placed on a parchment paper lined baking pan, and put in a fridge to chill until needed. Baked in a preheated 375* convection oven till golden brown. Once done, biscuits pulled and brushed generously with “Buttery flavored oil” and served.
1st it’s a copycat recipe which means not the same but may achieve similar results.
2nd I know for a fact if you produced KFC bisque recipe that you would be under gag order and would be sued if that in fact is the recipe.
3rd KFC doesn’t make bisques from scratch, because they are chain stores and the actual store gets them frozen. Then they bake them and butter them. And that is as of 2000 when I worked there as a teenager.
4th I am thinking of trying this recipe.
Makin’ em now
I was very excited to try this as I love KFC biscuits. Mine did not come out light and fluffy at all and took much longer to start to brown. Is 415º the correct temperature? I’ve never had a recipe that used that temperature before
Your post mentions a favorite breakfast of biscuits and gravy… do you have a recipe posted for the gravy that you serve with this? I’d love to try it!