Best-Ever Biscuits

Biscuits are quintessentially Southern, and while eating them is always easy, baking them can be intimidating. We break down the cut-and-stack technique for producing tall, layered biscuits so you can bake up batch after buttery batch.

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Best-Ever Biscuits

6. Stack the four pieces of dough on top of each other.

Best-Ever Biscuits

7. Gently press or roll the stacked dough into a 10×8-inch rectangle again. Repeat the cutting, stacking, and rolling process three more times. This process creates the layers that result in tall, flaky biscuits.

Best-Ever Biscuits

8. After cutting and stacking the dough four times, gently roll out the dough into a ¾-inch thickness.