Cinnamon Bits Recipe and a Giveaway!

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January 16, 2011 by Dana

At my middle school, “Home and Careers” was a mandatory class for every student.  Home and Careers was just Home Economics…  except we weren’t allowed to call it that.

In an effort to be more pollitically correct, Home Ec was renamed Home and Careers, and Shop was renamed Tech.  I’m not exaclty sure why those names were deemed more PC.  All I know is that if you accidentally called the class Home Ec, you got a lecture.  A long lecture.

I’m confident that not one student learned anything that would later be useful in their career.  Unless, of course, the career in question is chef.  Or 1950s housewife seamstress.

Nonetheless, we called it Home and Careers.

While my career doesn’t involve darning socks or peeling potatoes, I did take something away from the class: a recipe for Cinnamon Bits.

Ingredients

1 can biscuit dough
2 tablespoons butter or margerine
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon

This recipe is SO easy to make.  I mean, it’s literally designed for a 10 year old.

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

2.  Melt butter or margerine in a small bowl (about 1:30 minutes in the microwave) and set aside. In another bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon.

3.  Cut each biscuit into quarters and roll each piece into a ball.  Place each ball into the melted butter and gently roll with a spoon. Lift the biscuit out of the butter and plae it into the cinnamon sugar mixture.  Coat each dough ball well.

4.  Place the coated balls of dough into an ungreased 8 or 9″ round or square pan.  Bake for 10-12 minutes and serve warm.

I admit that these Cinnamon Bits aren’t too attractive looking.  When I handed Jake one of the Bits, he looked at me skeptically… but after one bite, he was hooked.  I believe the word he used to describe the doughy cinnamon sugar treats was “bangin’.”

If you’d like to try these Cinnamon Bits out for yourself, you can!  Just enter my Pillsbury Simply… Biscuits & Bread giveaway to win free biscuit dough (and french bread)!

The folks at Pillsbury have generously agreed to provide me and one reader with a fun prize pack.  In addition to coupons for free samples of the Buttermilk Biscuits and French Bread, the Pillsbury Simply… prize pack contains a bread basket, premium honey, a stainless steel spreader and a cutting board.

Pillsbury Simply… products are a great way to serve your family freshly baked biscuits and bread without any prep work.  Since they contain zero grams of trans fat, no high fructose corn syrup and no artificial colors or flavors, you can feel good about giving them to your loved ones.

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