Buttermilk Biscuit Battle?

Before I start, I just want to say that it amazes me that something as sour as buttermilk can make something so tasty.

The flour and butter.

The reason this post is called Buttermilk Biscuit Battle is because last night I made buttermilk biscuits. I tried two different recipes: battling it out, to see which comes out on top. 

The two recipes not only battled each other but,  I'm pretty sure they were battling me...

Recipe #1

This one is from my baking cook book. 
For starters, this was quite possibly the stickiest dough I have come across. I was about to just drop it onto the cookie sheet instead of rolling it out. But Mom told me to put more flour on the counter to combat the stickiness, flatten it out (instead of rolling), then cut the biscuits out. It worked out better than dropping them onto the cookie sheet... and probably better looking too. 

My sticky mess

Recipe #2

 I found this recipe here. This dough was more like a pie crust consistency. I found it easier to work with but it left me with the question: Is this going to be as dry and flaky as pie crust? It wasn't as dry as pie crust but it was a drier biscuit.
 

Out of the oven.

Out of the oven.

As you can see these didn't really rise that much... Even with the use of self-rising flour in the 1st recipe. I blame that on frustration because I'm pretty sure that when I was trying to roll it out, get it off the counter, then flatten it out and finally cut it into biscuits... I may have over mixed it.
As for the 2nd batch, I may have not have been gentle enough. I say that because I read somewhere that when your making biscuits you can't be mad or mean to the dough. You have to be gentle.

The Taste...

I'm not sure if you can tell or not, but the inside of the 1st batch is fluffier (so it's sticky for a reason!) and the 2nd is less fluffy; more biscuit like.
They both taste very good. My favorite is the 1st batch. I like how fluffy and moist it was. It was perfect by itself and it tasted good with all the things I put on it (which I'll get to in a minute.)
The second was was good as well, but I didn't like how dense it was. A thing to note is that the 2nd batch was sweeter than the 1st.

And finally: how I ate my biscuits...
I put sausage and gravy on a couple of them, pumpkin flavored cream cheese on one and I tried jelly on two.

Pumpkin cream cheese on top and jelly on the bottom.

The biscuits are under sausage and gravy (top) and just an egg on the bottom.

I am going to try these recipes again sometime... Probably the 1st recipe first because their my favorite and I have a score to settle, a rematch if you will :-)