Fluffy Homemade Whole Wheat Flour Biscuit Recipe (2024)

What's Cool About This Recipe

• Flaky: These whole grain biscuits are flaky, buttery and tender.
• 100% whole wheat: This fluffy biscuit recipe uses all whole wheat flour, soft white wheat or hard white wheat flour works the best.
• Easy to make: The dough is easy to make and comes together in about 10 minutes.
• Tried and true recipe: We have been making these whole wheat biscuits for 15+ years.

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Whole wheat flour: we use whole wheat flour milled from soft white wheat (whole wheat pastry flour) or hard white wheat.
• Sugar: We like to give a little sweetness to our biscuits.
• Baking powder
• Cream of tartar
• Salt
• Cold butter: This recipe is engineered for unsalted butter, you can use salted but we recommend cutting the salt amount in the recipe by half. It is crucial that the butter COLD.
• Milk: we use whole milk,
• Egg

Variations

Add your favorite fresh (chopped) or dried herbs to the dry ingredients. Some of our favorites to add are:

• Dill
• Rosemary
• Basil

You can bake these biscuits drop style, we use a cookie scoop to scoop out the dough. Reduce the baking time to 8-11 minutes for a 2-3 tablespoon size scoop.

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 425°F and Grate the butter using a box grater. Place the butter into the freezer until you are ready to use it.

Step 2: In a large mixing bowl stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, cream of tartar and salt together.

Step 3: Whisk the milk and egg together.

Step 4: Add the butter to the dry ingredients and toss to combine.

Step 5: Add the milk and egg, and stir quickly with a heavy duty fork until a shaggy dough forms.

Step 6: Turn the dough onto a generously floured surface.

Step 7: Knead 5-6 times to bring the dough together. Shape into a rectangle about ¾ - 1 inch thick.

Step 8: Cut the dough in half long ways and then in thirds short ways to make 6 pieces.

Step 9: Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking tray about 2 inches apart.

Step 10: Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Serving Suggestions

We usually serve biscuits as a side with soup or stew. Some other ways we like to serve them are:

• Biscuits and gravy
• Served warm with honey butter
• With butter and jam
• Use for making breakfast sandwiches

Tips From Our Kitchen

Use cold ingredients, this will help the biscuits rise properly.

If you store your whole wheat flour in the freezer there is no need to bring it to room temperature.

If you’re using fresh milled flour make sure to cool it completely before using.

Don’t overwork the dough, the less you handle it the better.

Why didn’t my biscuits rise?

It could be that your dough was too warm. Make sure all your ingredients are cold and that you don’t handle the dough more than necessary.
Also check the dates on your baking powder and cream of tartar to make sure they aren’t out of date.

Why did my biscuits spread while baking?

This is usually from not enough flour in the dough.