These easy to make homemade Baking Powder Biscuits are made with simple ingredients like shortening, without butter and bake up super soft and fluffy. They are the BEST Baking Powder Biscuits you'll ever try!
Heat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. *if you don't have any parchment, use an ungreased cookie sheet.
Mix flour, cream of tartar, salt, baking powder and sugar together in a large bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender and mix.
In a separate bowl, mix eggs with milk and whisk together.
Add wet mixture to dry ingredients and knead 3 minutes. * I set the timer on the stove for this part.
Roll out on lightly floured surface.
Roll dough to ½ inch thick.
Cut in rounds with a 3 inch round cutter.
Place biscuits on parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes in preheated oven. *They will be golden brown on the bottom.
Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer warm biscuits to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy!