A whole wheat biscuit I made last night. Buttery and delicate, they fall apart into delicious crumbles.
At 10pm last night all I wanted to do was get my hands on a can of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. It was pretty late to go to the store, so I decided to heavily tweak the Better Homes and Gardens Biscuits Supreme recipe instead and add an icing topping. The only flour we had in the house was whole wheat, otherwise I would have used all purpose, but they turned out so good that I would definitely make them again with only whole wheat flour.
My biscuits were pretty messy looking. I didn't want to bother with the biscuit cutter, so I just evened the dough out and cut triangular sections which were moved apart to different stations on the cookie sheet.
Whole Wheat Butter Biscuits with Orange Icing
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Sugar
1/4 tsp. Cream of Tartar
dash Salt
tiny pinch of Cardamom and Nutmeg
1/4 cup Butter, salted (1/2 stick)
1/3 cup Milk (whole milk would taste good here)
2 Tblsp. Melted Salted Butter, for brushing over the biscuits once they are done baking.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put the whole wheat flour in a medium bowl and sift in the baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, salt, cardamom and nutmeg. Stir together well. Cut the butter into small dice, dump into the bowl with the flour mixture and continue cutting the butter into the flour until the lumps of butter are the size of small to medium peas. Add the milk all at once and stir just until the dough holds together. Turn the dough out of the bowl onto the parchment paper lined baking sheet. Pat the dough gently to press it to an even 1/2" thickness. Cut the dough with a round biscuit cutter and set each biscuit slightly apart on the parchment lined sheet. Bake 450 degrees Fahrenheit, for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned on the bottom with only a slight color to the top. When done, remove from oven, brush a little melted salted butter on top of each biscuit and put a spoonful of orange icing on top. Makes about 6 large biscuits. Serve warm. Enjoy!
Orange Icing
1 1/4 cup Powdered Sugar
1/8 tsp. Orange Extract
1 Tblsp. Orange Juice
1 Tblsp. Milk
1/4 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Stir all ingredients together while the biscuits are baking. The icing should be a little thicker than a thin glaze. Add more milk as needed to adjust the consistency. Once the biscuits are out of the oven, spread a dollop of icing on each while they are still warm. Eat immediately.
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Don't laugh at me but I got some new pants from here. I figured since they know how to make bras (which are incredibly technically difficult to make - I have tried to make my own many times, bags of bra making flops are hiding in my studio) they ought to be able to do a good job of making pants or at least sourcing good fitting pants. The pants showed up yesterday, in a very plain bag with just the store initials on the outside, and yaay they fit very well.
Alan and I are addicted to Project Runway, so we limp along between new episodes by watching reruns of previous seasons. It has definitely been interesting this season. I am rooting for my four favorites: Kimberly, Viktor, Olivier and Anya. While waiting for the biscuits last night I noticed Megan and Scott are having their own fantasy Project Runway competition, which I have been giggling about ever since, especially because Alan had suggested a few weeks ago that he should make an apron entry for Amy's new Tie One On theme. He might be getting cold feet now, I'll have to figure out how to get him to play along, it would be so much fun to both have aprons entered.
