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These 7 Up Biscuits are the easiest biscuits you’ll ever make and they turn out perfect every time, with just 4 ingredients!
It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for a good biscuit.
Has to be buttery. Has to be soft in the center with just the tiniest hint of crisp edges. Has to melt in my mouth.
These 7 Up Biscuits are hands down the easiest way to get biscuit perfection.
You all know my dad’s homemade biscuits – they’re one of the most popular recipes on my website. They’re absolutely divine and they’re what we make for a breakfast to serve with sausage gravy.
These 7 Up biscuits are easier to make with less ingredients than my dad’s biscuits and I’d honestly have a really hard time choosing which one I like best…except for that my dad’s biscuits are my dad’s biscuits so they have to win by default. 😉
We think this 7 Up Biscuit recipe produces a similar biscuit to KFC – at least, back when KFC biscuits were soft and they melted in your mouth.
????????Ingredient Notes:
Biscuit Mix – We’ll keep things simple and use an easy store bought biscuit mix like Bisquick. We haven’t tested this with Carbquick, but if you try it, please let us know how it goes.
Sour Cream – This makes the biscuits so soft and moist! You won’t taste sour cream in the finished product.
Soda – Our secret ingredient! Well maybe not so secret, since it’s in the title. 7 Up is the brand we’re using but Sprite would work too if that’s what you’ve got. Why use 7 Up? Because it works as a leavening agent, just like baking soda! You won’t taste lemon and lime in these biscuits, though.
What Readers are Saying!
“I cannot believe it! After over 50 years of trying, I finally made a tasty, soft, fluffy biscuit. I made them for chicken and biscuits but could not resist saving one to eat by itself as dessert. It was so good!” – Beth
????How to Make 7 Up Biscuits:
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Mix: Add all but a half cup of the Bisquick to a bowl with the 7 Up soda and the sour cream. Mix it all up until it is just combined! It’ll be a mess still at this point – don’t worry about it.
Dough: Sprinkle your countertop with half of the remaining Bisquick, dump the biscuit dough onto the floured counter, and then sprinkle the rest over the top.
Use your hands to mix the Bisquick in with the dough. You’re going for a very soft dough that just holds together. If you need to you can add additional Bisquick – sometimes you need more and sometimes you don’t.
Pat the dough out until it is about a 1/2 inch thick and use a biscuit cutter to cut out 9 biscuits. Rework the dough as needed.
Biscuit Cutter
We’ve had these handy little biscuit cutters for years. They come in 3 different sizes and have sharp edges to cut the perfect biscuit.
Butter: Melt the butter and dump it into an 8×8 baking dish and plop the biscuits right into the pool of melted butter. Can I be a 7 Up biscuit in my next life, please? Just floating around in a pool of butter…
Bake: Once ready you can pop the baking dish into the oven and bake these easy 7 Up biscuits in about 12 to 15 minutes or until they’ve turned a nice golden brown color and are cooked through!
We like to brush a little extra butter on top before serving, but this step is completely optional.
????Serving Suggestions:
These biscuits are honestly good enough to be eaten straight from the pan. They really do melt in your mouth and they’re already nice and buttery.
But, it’s always fun to doctor things up…
Keep it simple with raspberry jelly or whip up a batch of our cinnamon honey butter.
Serve these up for breakfast and drown them in our chocolate gravy! A true Southern classic, right up there with sausage gravy!
Go the savory route and serve these next to our crockpot chicken and gravy or fill them with pimento cheese or our cheese spread.
Leftover Hack!
Biscuits aren’t just great for breakfast! They’re also perfect for soaking up some hearty soup. If you’ve got leftovers, save them for dinner and serve them next to these soup recipes:
Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup
Amish Chicken & Noodles
Instant Pot Potato Soup
Crockpot Chicken & Rice Soup
Helpful Tip!
❄Freeze Leftover Biscuits:
Keep your freezer stocked with homemade biscuits – it’s easy!
Cool your baked biscuits completely and then wrap tightly in plastic wrap or foil. Place biscuits in a freezer safe bag and store for up to 3 months.
Reheat at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Cover with foil, if needed, to keep your biscuits from getting too brown.
❔ FAQs:
No, you’ll need Bisquick to make these 7 Up Biscuits. You can try a homemade Bisquick recipe if you prefer not to use a box mix.
We haven’t tested this recipe without the butter, and I wouldn’t recommending skipping it entirely. You may be able to cut the amount down, but I’d still add a bit of melted butter to the baking dish.
Any type of clear, carbonated soda should work well here, including Sprite, ginger ale, or diet soda.
These biscuits aren’t any sweeter than a traditional biscuit.
This dough is supposed to be very soft, but you will probably need to add extra Bisquick while patting the dough out – just enough to get it to a point where you can work it. It shouldn’t be stiff at all – it should JUST hold together.
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7 Up Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 1/2-3 cups baking mix such as Bisquick, divided
- 1/2 cup 7 Up soda
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- In a medium sized bowl, stir together 2 cups of baking mix, soda, and sour cream until just combined.
- Sprinkle the counter top with 1/4 cup of baking mix and dump the dough out onto it. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup baking mix on top of the dough as needed, using your hands to mix into 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 an 8×8 baking dish. Cut the biscuits out and place them in the pan of butter.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.
Tips & Notes:
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This post was originally published in 2012. Photos updated February 2022.
Alice says
What can be used to cut out he dairy.
Karly says
Sorry, I’m not sure of what substitutes would work here.
Janice says
Can these be made gluten free? Using gluten-free baking mix.
Karly says
I haven’t tried that, but I think it should work!
Rosa Sharon says
These were a mess. I was disappointed with the way they worked up. Way too sticky, I had to keep washing my hands to add lots more Bisquick.
Karly says
Sorry these didn’t work out for you! I wonder if you added too much soda or sour cream? It’s normal to add more Bisquick, but generally no more than an extra 1/2 cup.
Jocelyn says
We loved these biscuits! Your directions were perfect. Thanks so much.
Chris Penn says
It even works great with gluten free bisquick..I add a lil butter to my mixture. I also just make balls instead of rolling them…Awesome, fast, easy and quick meal! I also add chopped up breakfast sausage patties and cheese! Any way you like works!!
Colleen says
Hi…Just wanted to say thank you. Biscuits came out awesome…..
Karly says
Glad to hear that!
Ruth says
Great recipe but needs twerking. I had to add at at least 1-2 cups of baking mix more so it can be more of a dough consistency. Your Original recipe is too sticky
Karly says
You definitely need to add more baking mix to get the dough workable when you’re patting it out, but 1-2 cups seems like a lot. Are you sure you measured correctly before mixing?
Barbara says
I use this recipe all the time. I love it and so does my son. When it’s time to pat out the dough and cut it, I will pat it out to the size of my pan and then pick it up in its entirety and put it in the pan. Then I cut them into 9 equal (as best as I can) squares. It’s very easy to cut this way. It comes out perfect each time.
Karly says
That’s a great idea!
Patricia says
Give me the recipe of that 7-Up biscuit
Karly says
The recipe is just above the comment section, at the bottom of the blog post. If you’re on a mobile device,click the read more button.
Michael C. Turner says
Although I prefer truly made from scratch biscuits, this recipe will work fine with plain seltzer water. This eliminates the sweet taste that I and others do not prefer in a savory biscuit.
Gail Martinez says
Just made for breakfast, mmmmm mmm……. will be making again! Easy peezy to make, light and fluffy.
Karly says
Glad to hear! 🙂
karla says
Can I used butter instead of vegetable shortening?
Karly says
The recipe calls for butter, 7up, and sour cream. No shortening.
Tally erp 9 tutorial says
Want to try these very soon !!
Dana Craig says
How much soda?
Karly says
As stated in the recipe above, you’ll need 1/2 cup of soda.
Stephanie says
FYI for people who don’t want a sweet biscuit: these definitely taste sweet. I rarely eat/drink anything sweet because I personally don’t prefer that taste. My “sweetness radar” easily detected the sugar in these biscuits. I would not have been able to eat these with bacon & eggs or fried chicken. They didn’t rise very well either, but I did eat one with a little bit of apricot preserve and it was ok ~ dessert-like for me. I would not make these again.
So, just a heads up for the rare person like me who isn’t in love with sugar and doesn’t want it in their breads.