a technicality & cinnamon bisquits

Yesterday was a cinnamon biscuit, ginger molasses cookie, and skor bar rip-off baking day.

yum.

I'm gonna share with you the...cinnamon biscuit recipe. For some reason I keep wanting to spell biscuit with a "q". Looks more sophisticated
--bisquit.

Aha, never mind.

Anyways, these cinnamon biscuits are basically like mini-cinnamon buns. They are delicious, especially right after they come out of the oven (like everything :) ) or warmed up in microwave for days and days after. They are incredibly easy to make, and you don't have to wait for hours for the dough to rise. (That's why they are called biscuits, not fluffffy buns)

The original recipe is from something called "Grandma's Kitchen" I think we found it online somewhere. But "Grandma's Kitchen" seems like a pretty reliable source.

Cinnamon Biscuits:

2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbls baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

(1) Preheat oven to 400.
(2) Combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium sized bowl and mix well.
(3) Stir in vegetable oil
(4) Add buttermilk, stir until it is just combined (It doesn't matter if it still looks really crumbly, or not really well mixed, because you are going to be kneading it all together in a bit. It just shouldn't be obviously liquid-y)
(5) Dump out dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead it together until smooth.
(6) Grab a rolling pin, and roll your lump of dough into a 15x8 inch rectangle.
(7) Spread the softened butter evenly over the dough, like you are buttering a piece of bread.
(8)Mix the sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl, and sprinkle over the buttered dough
(9) Roll up the dough starting at the long side, to make a log. (Like a really long, homemade, pillsbury cookie roll)
(10) Cut into 1 1/2 inch slices, and place in a greased pan, (9-inch round pans work lovely)
(11) Bake till lightly browned for about 15-20 minutes.
(12) Remove from oven

Eat.


I should go get started on my day, i had great plans for this day. (Like usual ;) ). Mom got me a "Last-Minute Knitted Gifts" book out of the library.

Good thinking, Mom. :)

(wow! today I clicked the spell-check button and nothing lit up. Such an improvement, I'm usually a horrible speller. hmm, bisquit with a "q" didn't even light up. Maybe spell check is broken. Yup. It was broken.)

Have a lovely day, loveeyys.


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that you were my first love
that's just dumb love
a technicality
you were the head of me
that you were my first love
that's just dumb dumb stupid love
a technicality
you will always be the head of me
tell me
why'd i have to practice on you
why'd i have to practice on your heart?


oh john :)