Cathead Biscuits

These quick and easy Cathead Biscuits are buttery, tender, and delicious. With a little more than a handful of ingredients and a few minutes, you can have a batch of one of my favorite biscuits in your hot little hands.

You are going to love these tasty, fluffy, big as a cat’s head southern biscuits. Indeed, that is where the name comes from. Get them in the oven almost as fast as you can cut butter in with a pastry knife.

Ingredient Notes and Substitutions

See the complete list of ingredients on the recipe card below.

• Butter: Unsalted or salted. If using salted butter, cut the added salt to ½ teaspoon.
• Flour: I like using an equal combination of all-purpose flour and cake flour. The cake flour adds a lighter, fluffier, tender crumb to these biscuits.
• Baking soda: You need the baking soda because of the acid in the buttermilk. It reacts with the acid, producing a nice rise.
• Buttermilk: You can save money by making your buttermilk at home: add 1½ tablespoons of lemon juice or white vinegar to a scant 1½ cups of milk, then let it sit for about 5 minutes before using it in the recipe.

How To Make Cathead Biscuits

This is a summary version; for the complete list of ingredients and instructions, please refer to the recipe card below.

1. Whisk the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and granulated sugar in a large bowl.
2. Melt a tablespoon of butter in the cake pan in the oven.
3. Cut in the butter with a pastry knife until it resembles pea-sized crumbs. Stir in the buttermilk.
4. Drop the dough in large spoonfuls in the pan, barely touching.
5. Bake until set and golden brown.

Culinary Techniques

• The dough will be shaggy and sticky. This is exactly as it should be, as this dough is not rolled or cut.
• You can also bake these in a 10-inch cast iron skillet. Don’t forget to melt the butter in the skillet in the oven before adding the biscuit dough.
• After letting the pan cool slightly, invert the biscuits out of the pan to ensure the edges stay crisp.

Perfect Pairings

• Stew: chicken stew, easy hamburger stew, or cowboy stew.
• Chili: cowboy chili, beef chili, or slow cooker turkey chili.
• Soup: meatball soup, Italian sausage soup, or rotisserie chicken noodle soup.

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