Bake or Break

Breakfast baking may be my favorite. That may be because I get to do it so seldom. I’m not exactly a morning person, so it’s not likely that I would get up early enough to bake before going off to work.

Today, however, I have nowhere to go and nothing to do. So, breakfast it is.

This recipe beckoned me from the pages of Epicurious. Mixing went well until my pastry blender broke. Oh, well, I can just buy a new one. Any excuse, right? To finish mixing, a potato masher worked pretty well.

This was my first time to use turbinado sugar, which is an unrefined sugar. White sugar is turbinado sugar with the molasses removed. Very tasty. The smell of it mixed with cinnamon was incredible. I think the color of the sugar made the biscuits look better, too, than if I’d used granulated sugar.

I baked the biscuits about 12 minutes. The bottoms were nicely browned, and the cinnamon/sugar crust looked and smelled wonderful.

As for the taste, let’s just say that we ate as many as we could without embarrassment. I’ll definitely be making these again. The recipe recommends serving with butter and jam, but we found cream cheese to be very good.

As for the rest of my box of turbinado sugar, there are lots of enticing recipes at the Sugar in the Raw website. I’m sure I’ll be writing about one of those soon enough.