Sunday, May 1, 2016

Simple Cream Biscuits: That's why I love my skillet

Cream Biscuit is one of the easiest thing that you can make ^^, and it requires very short list of ingredients too.


With only five (or less if you use salt butter), you can have delicious and light biscuit to serve at anytime of the day. Serve with butter and jam for breakfast or tea time, or serve it instead of bread at lunch or dinner ^^.
Now, you might want to ask me why I use skillet instead of baking pan for this recipe. Actually you can use skillet for any biscuits or scone recipe. Because the cast iron skillet is very heavy and thick, it will heat slowly and it's the baking pan that this kind of quick bread loves. As the base of it will get hot slowly, so the shape of the biscuit is better (I talked about this before, we don't need a lot of heat at the base when start baking). But it's better than that, because after baking, the skillet will stay warm (or the right thing to say is "very hot", haha), and your biscuits will stay warm too.
This recipe is the simple or basic one, there is no sugar in the list, as you can serve it the way you want (sweet or savoury) but if you want it to be lightly sweet, 1- 1 1/2 tbsp of sugar is enough, (mix it with flour mixture before adding the butter).



Simple Cream Biscuits
Make 11-12 pieces 



 250g ............................. Cake flour
1tbsp ............................. Baking powder
1/2tsp ............................ Salt
60g ................................ Unsalted butter, cold cut into small pieces
200ml ............................ Whipping cream








Preheat an oven to 220C.



 Put flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.


 Whisk to combine.


 Put the butter into the bowl, use a pastry scraper to cut into small pieces.


 Use your fingertips to mix until fine breadcrumbs formed.

 Pour the whipping cream into the bowl.


 Mix with spatula until moisten, then press into a ball.


Remove from the bowl.
Fold until the top is smooth.

 Pat into 1.5 cm thickness.


 Cut with 5 cm round cutter.
Repeat cutting and patting until you run out of the dough.


 Place in 23cm Le Creuset skillet.


 Bake for 15-17 minutes or until golden brown.


Serve warm with butter, jam or with savoury dish, it's your decision ^^.


Simple Cream Biscuits: That's why I love my skillet

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