Chocolate Chip Biscuits, Southern-Style

Overloaded with sweet chocolate chips, these Southern chocolate chip biscuits are fluffy, featherlight, and topped with a vanilla glaze to make a tasty Southern-style treat.

Today, I’m showing you my extra special way to make featherlight chocolate chip biscuits, with a lovely little glaze on top. This Southern-style chocolate chip biscuits recipe comes to you courtesy of my sweet little girl, Katy. Chocolate biscuits are one of her favorite treats and I actually have three different ways that I make them. 

As far back as I can remember and as far back as our family “stories” go (the ones that are handed down from generation to generation), biscuits have been a staple on our tables. There are as many ways to make them as there are cotton plants in a field, and all of them are wonderful in my mind. This fluffy biscuit recipe just sprang up out of Katy’s love for chocolate and my desire to do something creative with it, so it isn’t a generation’s old recipe, but it will become one as soon as Katy Rose starts making them herself. 

You only need 5 ingredients to make my chocolate chip biscuits and I bet you have most of them in your kitchen right now: flour, milk, butter, sugar, and chocolate chips, of course. It doesn’t take too long to make our biscuit dough and then we have to wait patiently for them to bake before we can enjoy them. These chocolate chip biscuits are so light, fluffy, and sweet, they truly make the tastiest treat! For extra sweetness, add a drizzle of vanilla glaze on top (directions below).

Now y’all come with me while we make us some Southern biscuits…

Recipe Ingredients

Chocolate Chip Biscuits

• Self-rising flour
• Whole milk
• COLD butter
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Sugar

Glaze

• Confectioner’s sugar
• Milk
• Vanilla extract

How to Make Southern Chocolate Chip Biscuits

Cut your cold unsalted butter up into pats to make it easier to cut into the flour. 

Cut it in with a pastry cutter, pastry blender, or long-tined fork.

IMPORTANT: After you get the butter all cut into the flour it will look like a slightly lumpy flour mixture. Place this whole bowl in the fridge for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes have passed, stir in the chocolate chips and sugar until well mixed.

Pour in milk and stir until all of the flour has been moistened.

This will be globby dough when you are done. After you’ve stirred in the milk, if you still have dry spots, you can add a little more milk, maybe 1/4 of a cup. Don’t stir too much, just what you have to do, because while we want everything nice and moist, we don’t want to overwork our dough.

Place some waxed paper or parchment paper on a counter and sprinkle liberally with more flour (self-rising is fine).

Dump your biscuit dough onto the floured surface.

Sprinkle the top with more flour.

Pat the sticky dough out into a rectangular-esque type shape with your hands.

I pat the palms of my hands into the flour before patting to keep it from sticking too badly but you really should have a little taste of this sticky dough anyway, it is delicious!

Okay, now I want you to take one side of that dough and fold it over to the center…

Now fold the other side up over the first side. You end up with a log-ish-looking thing but it really is folded together :).

This is a way of kneading your dough without overworking it, which can cause lead to tough biscuit dough. By using this method for the chocolate chip biscuits, you get a tender and fluffy biscuit rather than a tough biscuit.

Pat that out again and repeat the folding process one more time.

Now take a biscuit cutter or juice glass and tap the rim of it around a bit in some flour.

Then cut out your biscuits.

Place them in a pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

What pan do you use to bake biscuits?

I’m using a round cake pan. This recipe makes about a dozen and you may or may not be able to get them all in this round pan so feel free to use something else. I like to cook them in a pan like this because it helps their sides to touch, which helps them to rise more and be fluffier. Biscuits are friendly little morsels of bread and they like to be together so that they can support one another and help them to rise up from humble beginnings! Kinda like good, old-fashioned friends.

If I have leftover biscuits that won’t fit, I just cook them off to the side in another small pan.

Bake these at 450 for 14-16 minutes or until they are lightly golden brown on top.

To make the glaze

Mix up a little sweet vanilla glaze by stirring together 1 cup of confectioner’s sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and 1 tablespoon of milk. Stir until all the lumps are gone.

Brush this across your chocolate chip biscuits.

Allow them to sit for just a few minutes until the glaze sets.

Then take a bite of angel soft heaven :).

Storage

When stored in an airtight container, your Southern biscuits will last up to 2 days at room temperature and up to 1 week in the fridge. Without the glaze, you can quickly reheat them if you like in the microwave, oven, or air fryer.

Recipe FAQs

How do you make self-rising flour?

To make your own self-rising flour, simply add 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt for each cup of all-purpose flour.

Can I use buttermilk instead of whole milk to make my homemade biscuits?

You can use buttermilk in place of whole milk in this Southern biscuit recipe if you like. You can also add one tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to the amount of milk called for and stir, then let it sit for five minutes before using it to make your own buttermilk. Or you can just add whole milk and leave it be. It will be good either way.

How else can I serve my chocolate chip biscuits?

Instead of the glaze, serve your chocolate chip biscuits with whipped cream (here’s my homemade recipe). Alternatively, go extra indulgent and add chocolate gravy to your homemade biscuit.

You may also like these biscuit recipes:

Drop Biscuit Recipe

Sausage Biscuit with Cheese

Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe

Pimento Cheese Biscuits

 

“Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours burn any brighter”.

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