Brown Sugar Cinnamon Glazed Buttermilk Biscuits

This has become one of my family's favorite breakfast treats. Healthy? Not even close. Delicious and warm and gooey and comfy? You bet.

They're so good. So, so good. Try them. You won't regret it. Promise.

Recipe makes 9 biscuits with a 3 inch biscuit cutter.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 6 Tablespoons COLD butter, cut into cubes
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

   For Glaze:

• 6 Tablespoons butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl.
3. Cut in cold butter with a pastry cutter until resembles course meal.
4. Mix in buttermilk until combined.
5. Turn out biscuit dough onto a floured surface and pat (don't roll) flat to about 1/4 inch thickness.
6. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon over the dough, and fold it in about 5 times.
7. Pat our flat again and cut into biscuits with your biscuit cutter.
8. Place biscuits in your baking dish (I used my 12 inch cast iron skillet) and bake 15-20 minutes depending on your oven.
9. To make the glaze, melt 6 tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan, then whisk in powdered sugar and vanilla until all is combined and a smooth consistency is reached. 
10. Serve biscuits warm with glaze drizzled on top.

Tip: To get fluffy biscuits, you want to keep that butter as cold as possible until it goes in the oven. Those little bits of butter will melt in the oven, causing little steam pockets, resulting in deliciously fluffy biscuits. So touch it as little as possible, because the warmth of your hands will start to melt it prematurely!


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