Copycat Cracker Barrel Biscuits

These Copycat Cracker Barrel Biscuits are just like the real thing! With just a couple simple ingredients like self rising flour, buttermilk, sugar, shortening and sugar, they are so easy to make! Buttery, crumbly fresh baked rolls are impossible to beat! Don’t have buttermilk or self-rising flour? No problem, it’s easy to make those with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen. I’ll talk you through it below! Time to get baking!

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Copycat Recipes

We’ve had a ton of fun on this website trying out copycat recipes. We all have our favorite trademark dishes from well known restaurants that we always crave. It’s awesome when you can figure out how to make it in your own kitchen! It saves time and money and often times you can even tweak it a bit for dietary restrictions if needed!

Over the years, we’ve tried our hand at Copycat Cheesecake Pasta Da vinci and Starbucks Lemon Loaf. We’ve also made our version of the classic Cracker Barrel dish, Fried Apples. After we made a copycat version of Red Lobster’s famous Cheddar Bay Biscuits, it made us think back to Cracker Barrel. Hey, don’t they have some famous biscuits too? Yep! Yes, they do!

Cracker Barrel Biscuits

Cracker Barrel is an American Icon of restaurant. Brimming with Americana, rocking chairs and wooden board games, they are famous for their breakfast and down home cooking. There are a number of recipes that people love to get at Cracker Barrel. One of them is their famous biscuits! I’ve been reading about how to make a TRUE Cracker Barrel Biscuit. A lot of recipes use Bisquick Baking Mix. We don’t think that is right.

We have nothing against Bisquick, we use it in a TON of our own recipes. But the secret to learning how to make Cracker Barrel Biscuits is about the Self Rising Flour. Yes, the buttermilk too… But the Self Rising Flour is key.

In total, here are the ingredients that you will need to get started:

• 2 cups self rising flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

How To Make Your Own Buttermilk?

Oh oh… We don’t have Buttermilk either?!?!  Again, no problem! You can make your own buttermilk. The recipe for this is:

Get 1 cup measuring cup. Put 1 tbsp of white vinegar into it. Fill it the rest of the way with milk and mix it up. Let it sit for 5 minutes and you are good to go.

Also, due to the acidity in the plain yogurt, you can actually just sub 1 cup of Buttermilk for 1 cup of yogurt! You may want to thin the yogurt out with a little water.

Can You Freeze These Biscuits?

Yep, you sure can! There is some debate as to whether Cracker Barrel ever freezes their biscuits or makes them every morning from scratch. If there are any former Cracker Barrel employees out there, I’d love to hear any inside info. But, if you want to freeze these biscuits, you can!

Just let them cool off all the way. I’d wrap them individually in freezer wrap or freezer bags. We love to use these Freezer Bags, they have a special handle on them that makes them super easy to open and they are very durable.

Tools and Gadgets To Make This Recipe Easier

• PASTRY CUTTER SET– Check out this set from Amazon! This will have everything you need for this recipe! A dough cutter to cut in the shortening. Cookie cutters to cut your biscuits to the exactly size you need. Bowl scrapers and even a pastry brush to apply the butter!
• GET SOME NEW BAKING SHEETS!– Come on, you know it’s time! Your current cookie sheets are super old! This set of 3 cookie sheets comes in 3 different sizes for all you baking needs!
• MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS- Quality, stainless steel measuring tools that will last you forever.

We hope you enjoy this recipe for Copycat Cracker Barrel Biscuits! Let us know how they turn out in the comments section!

Happy eating!

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Copycat Cracker Barrel Biscuits

Course Bread

Servings 8 biscuits

These Copycat Cracker Barrel Biscuits are just like the real thing! With just a couple simple ingredients like self rising flour, buttermilk, sugar, shortening and sugar, they are so easy to make! Buttery, crumbly fresh baked rolls are impossible to beat! Don't have buttermilk or self-rising flour? No problem, it's easy to make those with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen. I'll talk you through it below! Time to get baking!

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Ingredients

  

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• 2 cups self rising flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons butter melted

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Whisk together the self rising flour and sugar until combined.
  
• Cut in the shortening with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture resembles coarse sand.
  
• Pour in the buttermilk and stir until dough forms.
  
• Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until no longer sticky.
• Roll the dough out until it’s around ¼ inch thick, then use a biscuit cutter to cut out the biscuits.
  
• Place each biscuit on an ungreased baking sheet and cook for 20 to 25 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown. Halfway through the cook time, brush the tops of the biscuits with butter, then return them to the oven to continue baking.
  

Nutrition

Calories: 217kcal

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