Cinnamon Biscuits
October 6, 2010 in breakfast
Recently a Twitter friend (and fellow Braves fan!) requested that I come up with a recipe similar to Bojangles’ cinnamon biscuits. I have never been to Bojangles – in fact, because of the location and appearance of the Bojangles in our city, I’ve always thought it was a bar! I had no idea it was a restaurant that serves awesome biscuits.
All I could find was pictures of the biscuits and they looked like the Hardees cinnamon raisin biscuits that my parents used to treat me to occasionally way, way back when. So that’s what I went for with this recipe.
The cinnamon in the biscuits almost gives it a whole wheat appearance but trust me, this is all white flour. And shortening. And all those things you aren’t supposed to eat. They’re good though, trust me.
I’m not sure how close these are to the Bojangles ones but we loved them! Obviously not an everyday breakfast, but they will be a nice treat every once in a while.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅓ cup shortening
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 – 2 tablespoons milk
- ¼ teaspoon clear vanilla extract (optional)
- Preheat oven to 425F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Measure out shortening and drop bit by bit into flour. Cut shortening into flour using pastry cutter or 2 knives, until it resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in milk until everything is moistened. Turn out on floured surface and knead gently 2 – 3 times. Roll out to ½â€ thickness. Use a biscuit cutter or drinking glass to cut biscuits; place on baking sheet.
- Bake 13 – 15 minutes, or until biscuits are golden brown.
- Whisk powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth. Drizzle over warm biscuits.
adapted from Taste of Home
Oh my goodness you are making me hungry with these!! They look so amazing! I guess I know what we’re having Saturday morning!
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I might try this with whole wheat and butter some day. I just had to comment because I thought it was hilarious that there is a fork on the plate, but the biscuit has a round bite out of it….I wouldn’t bother with a fork either! haha!
You have my mouth watering right now
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Oh gosh we want one of those now for breakfast! And they look A LOT better than the Bojangles variety…!
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This reminds me of something my mom used to make when I was younger. She would take biscuit dough and make it up like cinnamon rolls (with raisins in them) and a powdered sugar glaze. This post is pretty cool, because I haven’t thought of that in years!
I am a sucker for anything with cinnamon, these look wonderful.
*kisses* HH
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I used to love those cinnamon-raisin biscuits from Hardees! I am going to have to try this recipe with some raisins mixed in.
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delightful! the biscuits are the only reason i ever go to bojangles, and the cinnamon ones are at the top of my list. :)
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