It is mandatory to include dough in a recipe for making biscuits?

You don’t really have to include dough when you’re making a recipe for biscuits. The recipe is usually for the dough - which is then cooked and there are your biscuits. Biscuit dough is, however, included in a variety of recipes. A simple search on Google will show a lot of recipes that include biscuit dough. This food can be bought in tubes and cans, so you don’t usually have to make your own biscuit dough.

For the curious, there are biscuit dough recipes out there. As for the biscuit dough recipes, they don’t usually include dough as an ingredient. That’s the end product; it’ll be in the title or implied as such in the title. Either way, unless you need biscuit dough in a recipe, it won’t say it.