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These 4-ingredient Sprite biscuits are about the easiest biscuit recipe you’ll ever make: just Bisquick, sour cream, lemon-lime soda, and melted butter bake up soft, fluffy, and golden in about 15 minutes. No cutting in cold butter, no rolling, the soda does the work! (And yes, 7Up works exactly the same as Sprite.)
For more easy bread and sides, try my Skillet Cornbread or Easy Drop Biscuits Recipe.
Why you’ll love this buttery Sprite biscuit recipe!
These are hands-down the best biscuits that you’re ever going to make. And being from West Virginia, you can trust me: I know my biscuits!
Here’s what makes these Sprite biscuits so darn good.
- 4 simple ingredients – Starting with Bisquick cuts down on the measuring
- Moist, tender crumb – Using sour cream instead of buttermilk makes these easy biscuits EXTRA moist
- Eat them all day long – Have Homemade Biscuits and Gravy for breakfast, slice them for a sandwich for lunch, and serve them alongside Creamy Crockpot Chicken for dinner.
- Easy to make – You don’t even need to cut in the butter!
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Ingredient Notes
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
- Bisquick – You can use store-bought or Homemade Bisquick Mix. (Once you have Bisquick on hand, use it to make Bisquick Waffles and Bisquick Pancakes too!)
- Sprite – The Sprite acts as a leavening agent to make the dough rise. The carbonation reacts with the baking soda in the Bisquick, and poof! You’ve got these fluffy, little bites of heaven! (Check out my 7UP Biscuits too.)
- Sour cream – Sour cream gives the biscuits flavor and makes them soft and moist. I also use it in my Sour Cream Biscuits. (For a more traditional recipe, try these Southern Buttermilk Biscuits.)
- Melted butter – To keep the biscuits from sticking to the pan and give them a buttery, golden brown bottom.
Variations
- Cheesy Biscuits – Add shredded cheddar or grated Parmesan to the Bisquick before adding the wet ingredients.
- Herbed Biscuits – Add fresh or dried sage, rosemary, or thyme to infuse these Bisquick biscuits with some herbaceousness.
How to Make Sprite Biscuits
- Mix the Bisquick and sour cream until crumbly, then stir in the soda just until a soft dough forms.
- Cut the dough into biscuits using a biscuit cutter.
- Transfer to a cast iron skillet with melted butter in the bottom.
- Bake about 12–15 minutes at 450ºF, until golden on top.
Kasey’s Tips
- Don’t overmix: This is the key to perfect fluffy biscuits. Mixing the dough too much will give you biscuits that are tough, without a light, airy texture.
- Double for a crowd: If you’d like to make a batch of 18 Sprite biscuits, double the ingredients and use a 9×13 baking dish.
- Freezing for later: I love keeping a batch of unbaked biscuits in the freezer! Freeze them on a parchment-lined baking sheet, then place the frozen biscuits in an airtight container or freezer bag. Bake in a buttered pan, adding a few more minutes to the baking time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Look for them to turn a nice golden color. The tops of the biscuits will brown and that means it’s time to pull them and put them on the cooling rack.
You can make Homemade Sausage Gravy to spoon on top of the biscuits or you can use the biscuits as a base for a Scrambled Egg Sandwich. Of course, you can’t go wrong with butter and jam (or my Strawberry Rhubarb Jam!) either.
There’s not enough Sprite in these biscuits to make them sweet, plus the sour cream balances any sweetness with its tangy flavor. If you’d like to make sweet biscuits, try my Blueberry Biscuits, which are also made with Bisquick!
If your biscuits are not fluffy, the likely culprit is over-mixing or over-handling the dough. Mix until until the Bisquick is moistened and knead just a few times before cutting. Another possible problem is how you cut the biscuits: press the biscuit cutter straight down, rather than turning it.
Homemade biscuits are a Southern tradition and these Sprite biscuits rank right up there with my favorites! You’ll love how easy they are to make, with only 4 simple ingredients. For more breakfast ideas, check out this roundup of crowd-pleasing Breakfast Casseroles Recipes.
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Sprite Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups Bisquick
- ½ cup SpriteⓇ
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- In a medium-sized bowl, stir together Bisquick, Sprite, and sour cream until just combined.
- Sprinkle the countertop with a little Bisquick. Add the dough to the counter and knead a little using your hands to the dough and pat the dough out to about 1/2 an inch thick.
- Add additional Bisquick as needed to form a very soft dough that is just holding together.
- Pour the melted butter into a cast iron skillet or an 8×8 baking dish.
- Cut the biscuits out with a biscuit cutter or the top of a small jar and place them in the pan of butter.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.
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Notes
- Don’t overmix: This is the key to perfect fluffy biscuits. Mixing the dough too much will give you biscuits that are tough, without a light, airy texture.
- Double for a crowd: If you’d like to make a batch of 18 Sprite biscuits, double the ingredients and use a 9×13 baking dish.
- Freezing for later: I love keeping a batch of unbaked biscuits in the freezer! Freeze them on a parchment-lined baking sheet, then place the frozen biscuits in an airtight container or freezer bag. Bake in a buttered pan, adding a few more minutes to the baking time.
Can these be frozen? I made them today and they r very good.. Would like to make a head of time if the dough can be frozen.
I will NEVER buy Pillsury biscuits again! I don’t care that I just ingested a pound of butter and biscuits they are SO amazing I’m making another batch! Thank you!
Amazingly good. Slightly crunchy on the bottom and top but fluffy and soft in the center. Will definitely be making these again and again and again.
YAY! You just reminded me that I need to make these this week. They’re perfect with my Chicken Pot Pie! 🙂
Why? Why is there always somebody who wants to be a jerk?
The supposedly “FORTH” ingredient butter, that you melt in the pan is not considered an ingredient. When baking a cake, grease and flour to keep the cake from sticking are also not considered ingredients.
This looks great sugar, Can’t wait to try it.
There’s one in every crowd. They are proud to be able to count to four. LOL
Can you use Sprite Zero?
Sure! That should work but I’ve never tried it! Let me know if you do!
Can you substitute seltzer for the Sprite, or club soda?
Oooh my gosh! These are delicious and easy. After you have mixed it and turn it out onto additional Bisquick, dont be afraid to add more Bisquick. They are very sticky. Delicious!
This recipe is the best ever in making home made biscuits and believe you me I’ve tried a lot of recipes and this is hands down the simplest most convenient recipe I have ever tried and it came out perfect the very first time. First i turned oven on to 450. Put butter in 10″ or 12″ inch cast iron skillet or pan and melt butter in it before putting biscuits in pan.
2 cup Bisquick,
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sprite or 7up, [I used Sprite]
4 Tbs. butter or 1/2 stick butter
Useing medium size mixing bowl add Bisquick, make a hole in center of flour and add sour cream, start gently with a wooden spoon or your fingers smashing down or folding in Bisquick into sour cream by bring flour mix from outer side into sour cream and adding Sprite a little at a time. The mix will be a little wet and sticky but that’s normal. Just don’t over work the dough. Next to keep it simple I formed dough into a ball with the back of my wooden spoon and added 1 or 2 table spoons of Biquick around dough. Then with clean hands that are still damp I floured them with flour. Pinch off a nice size piece of dough that would fit in the palm of your hand and roll into flour mix along side of bowl coating all sides, then gently in the palm of your hand roll into a ball and place in pan your using, keep repeating process, pinch off dough; roll in flour; roll gently in hand; set in pan. Once all biscuits in skillet or pan then place in hot oven and cook for 12 to 15 minutes. Enjoy, Yummmm!
WOW! That’s great!! So happy you enjoyed them! Thanks for sharing with me!
AWESOME!!!!
I used to make them like my great grandmother & grandmother & my mother. Flour, crisco, buttermilk, eggs,softened butter & salt in the dough bowl ( made by my great grandfather), after kneading, the piched dough was shaped into biscuits & floured. I used a metal pie pan & baked. This ritual was reminiscent of many observations .
Your recipe was awey & soo easy.
Thank you for your recipe.
Awesome. Oops the typo.
Can you make with light Bisquick
Looks delicious. Love homemade biscuits. Will try the three ingredient sprite biscuit recipe. Thank you.
Just made these this morning, they are great! It took a little while to get them the right consistency, had to add more Bisquick, (almost a 1/2 cup). Is there any way that I can make them rise a bit more?
Thanks for sharing.
How do I double the recipe and how long do I bake them for?