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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.
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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 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 226kcal

Author: Stephanie Manley

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.

Stephanie is the author of CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home, and CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home 2.

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Comments

  1. Vidya

    Church's Honey Biscuits - CopyKat Recipes (4)
    Hi I want to make this biscuit but I don’t not have any cream of tartar can anyone please tell me what I can use as a substitute?

    Reply

    • Stephanie

      Baking powder may do it.

      Reply

  2. Venus Perkins

    I am making some tonight for dinner. Yum!!

    Reply

  3. Mala Sharma

    Making these now

    Reply

    • Stephanie

      I hope you enjoy them.

      Reply

  4. 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

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

      • 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.,

      • Stephanie

        I have not yet gone back to this recipe. One day 😉

  5. 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.

    Reply

  6. meme

    i made this biscuit in 2 consecutive days and still didn’t have enough.

    Reply

    • Jacqueline

      Church's Honey Biscuits - CopyKat Recipes (5)
      These biscuits are amazing, and so easy to make. I made two double batches… Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.

      Reply

  7. 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..

    Reply

  8. Beautiful Disaster

    I made my o sooo Delicious I can smell them now.. Yum

    Reply

  9. Liz Nelson

    Church's Honey Biscuits - CopyKat Recipes (6)
    I have always loved these biscuits! I will make these soon!

    Reply

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FAQs

What are churches biscuits made of? ›

Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and cream of tartar in a medium bowl. Work the shortening into the flour mixture by crumbling with your hands until the mixture feels like cornmeal. Pour milk into flour mixture and mix well. On a slightly floured surface, knead the dough about 12-15 times.

Does Church's Chicken have honey biscuits? ›

Honey-Butter Biscuit™

We serve millions of biscuits every year because people are head-over-heels in love with them. Scratch-made in small batches all day long, and drizzled with honey butter, they don't just “sell like hotcakes.” They sell like our Honey-Butter Biscuits™, which is better.

What is the secret to fluffy biscuits? ›

For soft and fluffy biscuits, blend the liquid and dry ingredients just until the dough "resembles cottage cheese," Sonoskus says. This stops you from activating too much gluten in the flour and ending up with a tougher biscuit that doesn't rise as high.

How many calories in Church's Chicken Honey butter Biscuits? ›

Church's Chicken honey butter biscuit (1 each) contains 25.4g total carbs, 24.5g net carbs, 14g fat, 3.4g protein, and 240 calories.

Did Popeyes buy out Church's chicken? ›

Acquisitions. After a four-month legal dispute to avoid a takeover, Church's Chicken became the second-largest chicken restaurant chain when it was acquired by Popeyes for $330 million in 1989.

What kind of oil does Church's chicken use? ›

Church's chicken is known for its crispy, juicy, and flavorful chicken. The chain uses a special blend of herbs and spices that gives their chicken its signature taste. They also use soybean oil to fry their chicken, which helps to keep it moist and flavorful.

What is the difference between Church's Texas Chicken and Church's chicken? ›

Church's Chicken, founded in 1952 in San Antonio, has a slightly different name outside the Americas. In countries as varied as Belarus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq and New Zealand, Church's is known as Texas Chicken. The logo doesn't look much different, but the menu does differ depending on the market.

Is it better to use butter or Crisco for biscuits? ›

The butter version rises the highest — look at those flaky layers! The shortening biscuit is slightly shorter and a bit drier, too. Butter contains a bit of water, which helps create steam and gives baked goods a boost.

What is the best flour for biscuits? ›

There is some actual science behind why White Lily flour is lighter than others and, thus, better suited for items like biscuits and cakes.

Why put an egg in biscuits? ›

Biscuit recipes tend to be egg-free, this makes them drier and the lack of protein to bind the mix helps achieve that crumbly texture. For super light, crumbly biscuits try grating or pushing the yolks of hard-boiled eggs through a sieve into the biscuit dough.

What goes well with honey biscuits? ›

Hot biscuits straight from the oven are great with jam, honey or gravy for breakfast and also make a nice dinner roll with chicken, pork chops or steak.

Can I use honey instead of syrup in biscuits? ›

Honey's lower pH levels mean that the bicarb in the mix will be better activated than it would with golden syrup. This means a lighter biscuit, with a less “chewy” result.

What were ships biscuits made of? ›

'Hard tack' was, however, the most well-known term for the ship's biscuit. The ingredients were stone ground flour, water and salt, which were mixed into a stiff dough, baked in a hot oven for 30 minutes and then left to harden and dry.

What is a 2 piece with a biscuit Church's Chicken? ›

Two pieces of original or spicy chicken, marinated for 12 hours, hand-breaded with our classic recipe, cooked, golden brown and crispy. Served with a regular side, a regular drink, and a honey-butter biscuit.

What are Kingston biscuits made of? ›

Sugar, Compound Chocolate (23%) (Sugar, Milk Solids, Vegetable Oil, Cocoa Powder, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin, E492, E476), Natural Flavour), Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil, Desiccated Coconut, Oats, Golden Syrup, Boking Powder, Solt, Milk Solids, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Flavour, Antioxidant (E307b From Soy).

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