Easy & Yummy Grated Butter Biscuits

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 heavy tablespoon granulated sugar

1 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons unsalted butter very cold

3/4 cup whole milk

Directions:

For best results, chill your butter in the freezer for 10-20 minutes before beginning this recipe. The very cold butter makes it much easier to make these biscuits.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees and if desired line a cookie sheet parchment paper. Set aside.

Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large bowl and mix well. Set aside.

Remove your butter from the refrigerator and using a large handheld grater or box grater grate the butter or if you prefer dice the butter into small cubes and use a pastry blender to get the butter into small pieces. Add the grated butter to the flour mixture and stir with a fork just to mix or is using the pastry blender add the butter cubes to the flour mixture and using the pastry blender work butter into flour mixture until butter cutting in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Add milk, use a wooden spoon or spatula to stir until JUST combined, do not over-work the dough!

Transfer your biscuit dough to a well-floured surface and use your hands to gently work the dough together. If the dough is too sticky, add flour until it is manageable. Fold the dough in half over itself and use your hands to gently flatten layers together. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and fold in half again, repeating this step 5-6 times but taking care to not overwork the dough. Using your hands flatten the dough to 1" thick. Lightly dust your biscuit cutter with flour and cut out your biscuits. Be sure to cut the biscuit going straight down into the dough and drop the biscuit onto your prepared baking sheet about

1/2" apart. Bake for 12 minutes or until tops are beginning to turn lightly golden brown.