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.