Thanks, Alexa. That's a good blog.

Here's my concept of quick cinnamon buns. LOL

I'm with Ruthanna! BUT, I used to make cinnamon "buns" with something akin to your recipe all the time when I ran a wilderness outpost for kids. We made them in the dutch oven. Butter, sugar, cinnamon, ya got all the basics there! The kids really enjoyed making them.

Here's a recipe from my "to try" file that is without the quick mix. I don't like the preservatives and amount of salt in Bisquick and the like.

Cinnamon Pecan Coffee Ring
Recipe from Hodgson Mill
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (or regular AP flour if you're not a health nut like me)
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt (adjust to your diet, I always use less)
6 TBLSP butter or margarine
1/2 cup (approximate) of milk
1 egg beaten
1/4 cup softened butter or marg.
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 TBLSP cinnamon
1 tsp. allspice
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Combine flour with other dry ing. including sugar. Cut in the butter until it resembles a coarse meal. Add enough milk to the egg to make 3/4 cup liquid. Add this to the dry ingredients, stirring until the flour is moistened. Turn out onto a floured counter, knead gently for ~ 1 minute. Roll to 9x12 inch rectangle. Spread with softened butter. Combine Remaining filling ingredients, sprinkle over dough to about 1 inch from the edges. Roll up as for cinnamon rolls.

(Lpink's note: At this point you can cut them into cinnamon rolls and put them in a pan, or you could maybe even make two smaller rolls and put them in mini muffin cups for bite size rolls. That's what I intend to do when I try this. I want something to eat in the car on my way to work, lol!)

Place the roll seam side down on a greased baking sheet to form a ring. Cut through the ring from almost center to outer edge at interfals. Thurn each slice slightly to expose centers. Bake at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes or until browned.

Drizzle with icing made from 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp. vanilla and enough milk to drizzle over warm coffee ring. Best when served warm!

Thanks:

That recipe has been around for years.
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Ruthanna :
We think alike !!!

How are you doing ???
LOU

Alexa, Not a blog I was familiar with so thanks for the link.

I tried a similar recipe not long ago. I guess in a pinch it might satisfy a cinnamon roll craving, but I was a little disappointed. There is just something about a yeast dough.

Ruthanna, I like the way you think.

Ann

I really like those "biscuit method" CBs. Even my kids make them. You have to eat them fairly quickly, as they don't store as well as yeasted ones. Like that is ever a problem....

I have a problem with the fact they dry out within the hour too. I much prefer the yeast ones but in a pinch will do these ones.

Since Bisquick keeps forever and a day, you can keep the log wrapped in saran wrap in the fridge for a couple of days and just clip off and bake the ones you want, fresh.

Thanks Alexa! I'm glad I checked in here today and saw this since my kids have been asking for the buns and my fave recipe is an overnighter.....

We were at the mall yesterday for kids' haircuts and other errands (BTW, am I the only one that gets an anxious rash 15 minutes after setting foot in a mall?), and the kids asked for Cinnabons. None of us could eat more than a bite. The actual dough wasn't bad, the outside was fine but the inside was undercooked and doughy, but the icing was horrid! It was slightly congealed and both the texture and taste was blech. Plus, the server handled the bun with gloves on and then handled our money with the same gloves, then served the next customer! I think I felt my ServSafe card quiver in my wallet.

I blame the Cinnabon smell. Cinnamon is intoxicating.

AM

You are most welcome AM - I hope they fix the cravings. And I couldn;t agree with you more on this:

"Plus, the server handled the bun with gloves on and then handled our money with the same gloves, then served the next customer!"

OMG it is enough to hurl......

Alexa

We called those baking powder raised cinnamon buns, cinnamon biscuits....yummy things but as different from the yeast bread ones as muffins are to a yeast bread.

My MIL used to buy those biscuits in a tube cut them in quarters, dip into melted butter and then cinnamon sugar and bake....the kids loved grandma's cinnamon bites!
Linda C

AM,
I am with you. I can't stand malls and my kids know I hate shopping. It is kind of a joke to see how quickly I'll announce that I've "hit the wall".
Yet place me in a restaurant supply store, or any good grocery store and I am in hog heaven. Go figure.
Jo

No, you aren't alone! Our local mall was built when I was a teenager. I have NEVER been able to breathe in that building. I don't know what kind of air circulation system they put in, but it doesn't work well. Sometimes I'm in there for 5 minutes, sometimes an hour before I HAVE to leave. There are other malls with in half an hour or 45 minutes from me that I can walk all over in, but I can breathe in them, so it's easier to want to look around!

As for the server, he needs fired! My thing is that everyone who works with food, be it restaurant kitchen or grocery store, non-register employees, or your local convenience store employees, and here I do include those who run register, as I know they all work deli!, should be required to take and pass the serve safe test. My son took baking and pastry in high school and passed his first try. Needs to renew it. He works in a convenience store as a shift leader, and those who work with him know they better follow the rules or listen to him b)*()&* at them!

Tami

I love that blog. She's one of my faves. Love her goats. When I was a kid we had cinnamon buns made like that often. It was a cheap quick dessert for us. There weren't leftovers, so that wasn't an issue. I've had those Cinnabons a few times and they were always raw in the middle. Disgusting.