Church’s Honey Biscuits

If you love the taste of a honey butter biscuits, you will love Church’s Honey Biscuits. These biscuits are always so warm, buttery with a touch of sweetness in every bite.

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Churches Honey Biscuits

Churches honey biscuits are so perfectly flavored, the restaurant has duplicated this taste for their chicken. Yes, Church’s Chicken now serves honey butter chicken.

Honey makes everything taste better — sweeter at least. I hate to admit how many times I have stopped for some of Church’s honey biscuits because they are just fabulous.

Recipe Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need:

  • All-purpose Flour
  • Baking Powder
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • Vegetable Shortening
  • Cream of Tartar
  • Whole Milk
  • Butter
  • Honey

How to Pick the Best Honey

When it comes to honey, surprisingly there are rules to follow for picking the best one. Or at least the best one for the flavor you are going for.

  • If you are looking for bolder honey, you want to pick one that appears dark in color.
  • For honey that is milder in taste and won’t overpower other flavors, choose one that is lighter in color.

So how do I know which one to use? The bolder honey is best for bland foods like toast or even tea. This will give it more flavor. Some also suggest using local honey to where you are to help adjust to the local pollen.

How to Make Church’s Honey Biscuits

These biscuits would do well to use bolder honey but whatever you use, you will become addicted to them. And it takes only 25 minutes to make!

  1. Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cream of tartar together in a mixing bowl.
  2. Work in the shortening until the mixture starts to feel like cornmeal.
  3. Pour milk into the flour mixture and knead up to 15 times.
  4. Break the dough into 1/4 to 1/3 cup size balls.
  5. Roll out the dough balls until they are about 1/2 inch thick.
  6. Brush with melted butter and bake at 450°F for 10 to 12 minutes.
  7. While the biscuits are baking, heat up the honey and butter. Bring to a boil and brush on the biscuits when they are hot out of the oven.

Recipe Notes

  • If you don’t have vegetable shortening, you can substitute more butter into the recipe. But the biscuits won’t be as flaky with butter as they are with shortening.
  • Serve these biscuits for dinner with your favorite fried chicken or it makes a wonderful breakfast.
honey biscuits on a baking sheet

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Church’s Honey Biscuits

You can make the well-known and loved Church's Honey Biscuits at home. 
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Course: Breads
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Biscuits, Churches Honey Biscuits, Honey Biscuits
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 12
Calories: 226kcal

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 2/3 cup whole milk
  • 1/3 cup honey

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 450°F.
  • Melt butter in a small saucepan.
  • Place flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cream of tartar in a mixing bowl.
  • Work in the shortening with a fork or pastry blender until the mixture resembles and feels like cornmeal.
  • Pour milk into the flour mixture and mix well.
  • Knead the dough about 12 to 15 times.
  • Break the dough into ¼ to ⅓-cup size balls.
  • Roll or pat out dough balls to ½-inch thickness.
  • Place the dough pieces on a baking sheet and brush them with melted butter.
  • Bake at 450°F for 10 to 12 minutes.
  • While the biscuits are baking, pour the honey into the remainder of the butter and bring it to a boil.
  • Remove the honey butter from the heat and set aside.
  • When biscuits are done, remove them from the oven and immediately brush the tops with honey butter.

Notes

  • If you don’t have vegetable shortening, you can substitute more butter into the recipe. Note the biscuits won’t be as flaky with butter as they are with shortening.
  • Serve these biscuits for dinner with your favorite fried chicken or it makes a wonderful breakfast.

Nutrition

Calories: 226kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 138mg | Potassium: 220mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 140IU | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 1.1mg

About Stephanie Manley

I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

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  1. Steven Pierce

    I used to work at Churches, the texture is spot on, like meme says the shape is a little off because of the way we loaded the pan. We would scoop them out with a disher and then roll them to flatten. The one thing I might suggest though is the shortening. I do not think it was pure butter but I recall that the chunks in the mix were yellow. I think it was from butter flavoring and honey right in the biscuit as well as brushed on rather than just shortening. Also the ovens we used were convection which changes the way they cook. Because of this we brushed them with butter mix before during and after bake

    • Stephanie Manley

      Thank you for your note. I am sure they were using something in their mix that is difficult to duplicate at home. When recreating these recipes I try to stick with ingredients we have in our grocery store. I am guessing it was some sort of fat in there that caused the chunks of yellow. Maybe I can try this with butter flavored crisco.

      • Shar from California

        Hi Stephanie,
        Did you end up doing another trial using butter flavored crisco. I remember the little dots of yellow on the lightly golden brown biscuits. With the closing of Church’s Chicken, I’d like to capture a copykat before the restaurant disappears.,

  2. Steven Pierce

    I used to work at Churches, the texture is spot on, like meme says the shape is a little off because of the way we loaded the pan. We would scoop them out with a disher and then roll them to flatten. The one thing I might suggest though is the shortening. I do not ink it was pure butter but I recall that the chunks in the mix were yell. I think it was from butter flavoring and honey right in the biscuit as well as brushed on. Also the ovens we used were convection wich changes the way they cook. Because of this we brushed them with butter mix before during and after bake.

  3. meme

    this biscuits doesn’t look like the one from churches chicken after you take it out from the oven but yet the texture is the same specially if you submerge it in the honey butter after you take it out. very yummy..

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