biscuit cinnamon rolls.

This past Sunday I woke up and I really wanted cinnamon rolls. The thing is, cinnamon rolls take what seems like forever to make and I wasn't feeling that patient. That, and I didn't have yeast and I didn't want to walk to the grocery store. So I did a quick search on google and came up with this recipe, adapted from here.

Ingredients for dough:

-2 cups all-purpose flour

-2 tbsp sugar

-1 & 1/4 tbsp baking powder

-3/4 tsp kosher salt

-1/4 cup butter

-3/4 cup buttermilk**

Ingredients for topping:

-softened butter (the recipe called for 4 tbsp, which I thought to be a little excessive. just spread a light layer on.)

-brown sugar (I didn't measure, but sprinkle till your hearts content.)

-cinnamon (again, just sprinkle it on)

-you could also add nuts, raisins, etc.

Ingredients for icing:

-cream cheese

-powered sugar

-vanilla extract

**(By the way, you can make buttermilk by adding a tbsp of lemon juice to a little less than 1 cup of milk. I used this method, just adjusting a little bit to make 3/4 cup)

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

-Mix together the dry ingredients and then cut in the butter and mix until crumbly.

-Add in buttermilk and mix together to form the dough.

-Roll the dough into a large rectangle, about 1/4 inch thick.

-Spread on a light layer of butter.

-Sprinkle on your toppings (brown sugar, cinnamon, etc.)

-Roll the dough up lengthwise (i.e., you want the roll to be as long as possible)

-Cut evenly into pieces, about an inch thick.

-Place in a round 8-inch cake pan.

-Bake for 16-18 minutes.

-While the biscuits/rolls are baking, make your icing. I totally winged it here. I just added cream cheese, powered sugar, and a little bit of vanilla extract until I thought it was the right consistency and it tasted good. Really, I don't think you can go wrong with those three ingredients!

-Spread icing on all rolls, or do them individually, whichever you please.

I was impressed with these. They really do taste like biscuit cinnamon rolls and for me, a person that loves both, this was a winning combination. And, they were pretty easy to make and did not take near the time normal cinnamon rolls do. So, this is a perfect recipe for when you have a hankering for them, yet lack the energy to go all out.

morning ritual.

Sometime this summer Micah and I bought a french press. It can be a testy process, sometimes it's a little on the weak side, sometimes on the strong. But, it does makes good coffee. I mean, really good. Since this little purchase came into my life, it's made my mornings ten times better. And, the improvement isn't just from the caffeine. The addition of the french pressed coffee has allowed for more time in the morning for breakfast, for sitting down at the kitchen table and not just grabbing something as I run out the door. It brings a little calm to my morning. And, I don't mind waking up a tad earlier if it gives me the time to spend a few extra minutes taking in the day with my husband.

it's october again.

And even though the weather in Denver has yet to really cooperate by cooling off, I'm so excited. I'm excited for falling leaves and sweatshirts and boots and most important pumpkins. Yes, pumpkins. Pumpkins in my pies and in my lattes. October is a glorious thing.