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The secret to the best homemade biscuits isn’t hours spent in the kitchen—it’s a can of Sprite! These easy Bisquick Biscuits are tender and moist, with an irresistibly light and fluffy texture. Best of all, you only need 4 simple ingredients to make them!
Why you’ll love this buttery 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 Bisquick 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!
Bisquick Biscuit Ingredients
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
These Spite biscuits come with a short ingredient list!
- 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.
- 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. My Copycat Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits are perfect for this recipe!
- Herbed Biscuits – Add fresh or dried sage, rosemary, or thyme to infuse these Bisquick biscuits with some herbaceousness.
How to Make Bisquick Biscuits With Sprite
- Prepare: Preheat your oven to 450ºF and gather your ingredients.
- Combine: Stir the Bisquick, Sprite, and sour cream in a medium bowl until just combined.
- Knead: Sprinkle the countertop with a little Bisquick. Add the dough to the counter and knead a little to bring the dough together, then pat it to about 1/2 an inch thick. Add additional Bisquick as needed to form a very soft dough that is just holding together.
- Butter the skillet: Pour the melted butter into a cast iron skillet or an 8×8 baking dish.
- Cut the biscuits: Cut the biscuits with a biscuit cutter or the top of a small jar and place them in the pan.
- Bake: Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown and fluffy.
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 this Bisquick biscuits recipe ranks 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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Bisquick 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.
Video
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.
I love this easy, very yummy recipe. Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you, Cara! We’re so glad you enjoyed it.
My dough is to sticky, it’s sticking to my hands as I’m trying to knead it
Try adding more flour!
I have made these bisquits several times and everyone loves them. When we have out of town company, I make the sprite bisquits with sausage gravy and scrambled eggs.
The biscuits were very sticky but, I added more Bisquick and they turned out great!
I have used this recipe for making garlic cheddar biscuits. I add 1 tsp (more or less) of garlic powder to the Bisquick. Stir with a fork to combine. Add 1 cup (more or less) mild cheddar or colby cheese shredded from the block Proceed per recipe. May need a splash or two of sour cream to make it workable
I only have diet Mt. Dew! Will that work? Anybody??
You can try it! I have not.
Yes, I make them with zero sugar sprite! They are great!
I’m going to try these. Sounds interesting. I d like to share another quick easy biscuit recipe which is also from the south shared with me by my South Carolina sister. 3 ingredients.
1 cup self rising flour
2 tablespoons of regular mayonnaise
1 cup of water.
Stir together and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet @ 450° for about 8 minutes. They are very light in color. Tips are just slightly beginning to brown, bottom will have more color. Fluffy and delicious with sausage gravy or just butter/jam. Try them and let me know what you think. 😋
I added more flour to bring them to the consistency I needed to roll out. Little less water too. Melted 2 T butter in pan and coated biscuits as I placed in pan. Baked 12 minutes @ 425 in my toaster oven!? Perfect! Served with bacon gravy 😋 This is a keeper! Thanks for sharing 🤗
Thank you, Michele! We’re so glad you were able to make it work and enjoyed it!
Delish! So light and fluffy! Best biscuits I’ve ever made!
I don’t know what I did wrong but the dough was like cake mix. I added bisquick to try and thicken it up but it didn’t help. I put them on a cookie sheet and hopefully they taste good. Your recipe might be sticky but cake dough! I used over a 1/2 box of Bisquick.
Try again and be sure to double check the instructions. The butter does not go in the mix. The bisquits are really good.
Can you use sugar free Sprite?
Delicious!! Light and fluffy and tasty 😋 Perfect! I used ginger ale bc I didn’t have Sprite.
Mine didn’t rise, they were still flaky and delicious. I will try these in my cast iron skillet next time and make smaller biscuits.
Followed directions exactly. Did not rise. No flavor. Didn’t bake all the way through even after 5 extra minutes.
These are amazing! Family loved them and very, very easy to make.
Surprise! Monday morning fresh biscuits. I used Greek yogurt, everything else the same. Baked beautifully and had a soft texture inside. Delicious!!!
Umm … that’s 4 ingredients.
These are the simplest, best tasting biscuits . They have a light texture. I didnt have sprite so used Mt. Dew with worked just fine. Will make again!
Love these biscuits and so easy when you can’t get around go
Best biscuits I have ever had, they are crumbly and soft they are Better then kfc biscuits. They were very easy to make and cast iron skillet worked perfectly