Would anyone care for a biscuit, a tender flaky made from scratch biscuit? I have a rather unique recipe I am excited to share with everyone because these biscuits are flavored with tea. Oat Tea Biscuits with Orange Honey Butter are infused with black tea, orange and spice and the nutty flavor of oatmeal that’s perfect with a morning cup of tea.
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Oat Tea Biscuits
with a side of orange honey butter
There is nothing better than hot biscuits right out of your oven. Just the smell of the golden brown biscuits wafting through your kitchen is enough to bring everyone running for a taste. I love it when you cut a hot biscuit open and the steam escapes and that aroma just overtakes your senses.
This oat biscuit recipe has all the usual ingredients except for one. It’s a teabag, and for this recipe, it needs to be a specific type of tea. Do you all know about Constant Comment Tea from the Bigalow Tea Company? This tea has orange flavor with spices and is perfect for flavoring these oat biscuits.
Years ago, maybe in the ’80s, I found this recipe in a magazine using the Constant Comment tea bag. Who knew you could add tea to a biscuit?
I can’t count how many times I have made this oatmeal biscuit recipe and these biscuits are always welcome for breakfast, brunch and afternoon snacks. The oats add texture and flavor and to make these biscuits extra delicious top them with a crunchy oat and tea topping.
But wait, there’s more, biscuits need butter, am I right? Add a pat of easy to make orange butter and let it melt right into the biscuits. Heavenly!
Your ingredient list for these easy Oatmeal Tea Biscuits and Orange Honey Butter
- Flour – AP flour
- Quick oats – using quick oats provides a more delicate texture to these biscuits
- Brown sugar or coconut sugar
- Baking powder – so necessary for biscuits to rise
- Salt
- Constant Comment tea bags – for this recipe open the tea bags and use the loose leaf tea
- Butter
- Buttermilk – this adds a bit of tangy flavor to the biscuits
- Orange juice – to flavor the orange honey butter
- Honey – for sweetening the orange honey butter
How to make Oatmeal Biscuits with Tea
Making biscuits is quick and easy. Just use a light hand when mixing and handling the dough so the biscuits come out nice and flaky. It is best to use quick oats in this recipe which for a more delicate texture. Mix until the ingredients are wet and the dough comes together.
Step 1
Put all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix together.
Step 2
Add the cold cubed butter and cut it into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or two knives until the butter is in pea sizes.
Step 3
Add the milk to the flour mixture and mix with a fork until a soft dough forms.
Step 4
Turn the dough onto a floured board and form into a smooth round
Step 5
Pat the dough to a ½″ thickness and cut dough rounds with a 3″ cutter. Make sure to cut the circles as close together as possible so you don’t have a lot of scraps to reroll.
To reroll scrapes just lighting press the scrapes of dough together and then finish cutting out the rounds. The more you work the dough the tougher the biscuits will be. So be gentle.
Here’s a good tip: when cutting the biscuit circles, just press down on the cutter but don’t twist it. When the cutter gets twisted it seals up the edges of the dough and it won’t rise as much, and you lose the flakiness of your biscuits.
Step 6
Place the biscuit rounds on a baking sheet then brush with buttermilk and sprinkle with the oat, brown sugar and tea topping.
That’s it, the biscuits are ready to bake.
This hearty oat and tea biscuit dough is nice and soft and I like that you can see the flecks of tea in the biscuits. These biscuits bake up golden brown and the topping melts into the biscuit tops and add a nice little crunch and flavor.
Don’t forget to make the Orange Honey Butter for the biscuits
Simple mix butter, honey, and orange zest together for the perfect spread for the oat biscuits.
For a simple plain biscuit recipe try these 6 – ingredient Easy Homemade Biscuits, they bake up golden brown, light and fluffy.
What Tools Do You Need To Make This Recipe?
Biscuit Cutter – Stacking cutters give you all kinds of size options for cutting out biscuits and cookies.
Rolling Mat – my favorite way to roll pastries is on a muslin cloth.
Measuring Cups – Make sure they are nice and sturdy
Small Baking Sheets – These biscuits make 6-8 so a small baking sheet is all you need.
Orange Oatmeal Tea Biscuits
Equipment
Ingredients
Biscuit Topping:
- 1 ½ tbls. packed brown sugar can use coconut sugar
- 1 tbls. quick-cooking oats
- 1 teabag Constant Comment Tea empty the tea from the teabags
For the Biscuits:
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup quick-cooking oats
- 2 ½ tbls. packed brown sugar can use coconut sugar
- 2 ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- 2 teabags Constant Comment Tea empty the tea from the teabags
- 4 tbls. cold butter cut into small cubes
- ¾ cup buttermilk plus additional for brushing biscuit tops
Orange Honey Butter:
- ¼ cup softened butter
- ½ tbls. honey
- ½ tsp. orange juice.
Instructions
Oatmeal Tea Biscuits Biscuit Topping
- Stir together all the topping ingredients and set aside.
How to make the biscuits
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Stir together the flour, oats, sugar, tea, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Cut in the butter until the size of peas.
- Stir in the buttermilk with a fork.
- Gather up the dough on put on a floured surface.
- Roll the dough to a ½" thick round
- Cut into circles with a 3" cutter and place rounds on a baking sheet.
- Brush each round with additional buttermilk and sprinkle with topping mixture.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until browned
Honey Butter
- Mix together the ingredients to spreading consistency.
Notes
Nutrition
Homemade Biscuits and Tea
For more baked goods from One Hot Oven here a few of my favorite recipes
Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls are made with 3-ingredient – flour, butter, and cottage cheese.
For all the chocolate lovers you will enjoy this Chocolate Cake Torte with 3-layers of chocolatey goodness.
Pecan Jam Thumbprint Cookies are an old-fashion favorite cookie filled with your favorite jam.
Don’t forget to grab your baking essentials for this recipe.
Lathiya
I love to have something with my tea and this one sounds great and something different I have never tried.
Ramona
Oh my! Warm biscuits with clotted cream or butter- I am drooling so badly over here now – I have mentioned these to my husband and he wants them badly. Will be making these at the weekend 😉
Jere Cassidy
Oh, clotted cream. I will try that with these biscuits next time I make them.
Jenni LeBaron
These oat tea biscuits look lovely! These would make a tremendous brunch treat for winter mornings with a big pot of tea. That orange honey butter is the perfect topping!
Katie
I bet these have a great texture, they sound amazing!!
Katie xoxo
Amanda
I always love a warm biscuit, but I really dig the oat addition here! It adds such a nice heartiness. Thanks for sharing another great recipe!
Jere Cassidy
Warm biscuits on a cold day, and yes the oats make these biscuits nice and hearty.
Cathleen @ A Taste of Madness
My husband LOVES when I bake with oats. He would be all over this! Bookmarked for later 😉
Jere Cassidy
Same with my hubby, he loves my baked oatmeal.
Lesli Schwartz
Oh yes! I love biscuits! These sound so amazing and will be making these soon!
Alexis
We love tea time in our family! I’m saving this recipe for our next friends and tea poetry time. Yummy!
Jere Cassidy
Oh, that sounds interesting, tea and tea poetry.
Jacqui Debono
A tea biscuit that I can have with my tea? Yes please! I love the orange flavour in a biscuit too!
Jere Cassidy
Tea and biscuits are the best combo every.
Amy Dong
These would be a delicious and hearty little treat for mornings and afternoons! Love that honey butter, which I’d use on everything!
Jere Cassidy
You are right about the honey butter, make extra for pancakes, waffles and toast.
Constance Smith
These biscuits are absolutely stunning. I love the combination of flavors you use in here. And I agree, the honey butter is a must!
Stine Mari
I always love your flavor combinations. These tea biscuits sound delicious, especially with that orange honey butter. Perfect for a cold Winter morning – I need to make this really soon.
Jere Cassidy
These really are perfect for cold weather, they are nice and hearty biscuits.
Michelle
These oat tea biscuits look delicious! I’m loving the sound of that honey butter too, yum!
Jere Cassidy
The honey butter is great on waffles and pancakes too!
Neha
I love how soft and flaky these biscuits sound. I never added oats to my biscuits before, thanks for this wonderful recipe. I am totally trying them out.
Jere Cassidy
I love the texture of the oats in the biscuits.
Tisha
We love doing homemade biscuits. This recipe is so simple and the oats give it a great texture, and not to mention the orange butter. Sounds so heavenly!
Jere Cassidy
These biscuits are heavenly with such a unique flavor.
Suzy
The orange butter really topped these off perfectly! So tasty and delicious!
Irina
Your biscuits sound amazing! LOVE them. Will be making these cookies during the holidays for sure. Thanks for sharing. By the way, I love your cookie cutter:)
Jere Cassidy
Let me know how your biscuits turn out. I love the copper cutter too.