7UP Biscuits

7up Biscuits


2 cups Bisquick

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup 7-up

1/4 cup melted butter (Try 2 Tbl next time)


Preheat oven to 450.

Cut sour cream into biscuit mix, add 7-Up. Makes a very soft dough.


Sprinkle additional biscuit mix on board or table and pat dough out. (Or you can just drop them in the pan.) Melt 1/4 cup butter in a 9 inch square pan. Place cut biscuits in pan and bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

No Yeast Orange Sweet Rolls

Perfect for a quick fix. If you are craving the real deal though these might not cut it. These are surprisingly good and I will make them again for sure. I usually am not a orange roll fan but these were the perfect amount of orange flavor.

No Yeast Sweet Rolls
Our Best Bites adapted from Fine Cooking

For the dough:
3/4 cup cottage cheese (4% milk fat)
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup granulated sugar
4 Tbs real butter, melted
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
9 oz. (2 cups) flour; more for rolling
1 Tbs. baking powder
1/2 tsp. table salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda

Orange Roll Filling:
4T butter, softened
1/2 C sugar
zest from one orange


Orange Roll Glaze:
2/3 C powdered sugar
1 T melted butter
2 T Orange juice

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

In a food processor, combine the cottage cheese, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla.Process until smooth, about 10 seconds. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda and pulse in short bursts just until the dough clumps together (don’t over-process). The dough will be very soft, probably softer than you're used to. Don't add anymore flour!

Scrape the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times just until smooth.Roll the dough into a rectangle, about 12x15 inches.

Now put your filling on. After the rolls are filled and cut. Place them in a pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray. The recipe in Fine Cooking tells you to bake the rolls in a springform pan. However, the batch I cooked in a spring form pan were very overdone on the bottom. I cooked my orange rolls in a ceramic pie pan and they were perfect. So I suggest using a glass or ceramic pan vs. a springform pan.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the tops are golden brown. When the rolls have a few minutes left in the oven. Whisk your glaze ingredients together. When the rolls are done cooking, let them cool for five minutes. Then spread the glaze on and eat while warm.


TIPS
I used a glass pie pan. I will put foil over the rolls after cooking for about 10-15 mins because they were perfect on top but a little under cooked once we dug into them. They needed more time but I didn't want them to burn on top. Also my food processor comes with a dough blade attachment and next time I will just use the regular attachment because I had a hard time getting the cottage cheese mixture smooth using the dough blade.

Banana Bread

I know all banana breads are just about created equal but I have recently discovered a delicious variation. It is darker and has more of a spice taste but still very good. Let me say it is NOT healthy but a great way to treat yourself. I found this recipe on sherbetblossom.blogspot.com.

Lovely Banana Bread

2 cups sugar
2½ cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
½ tsp baking powder
1 cup oil
3 eggs
2 cups mashed bananas
1 tsp vanilla

Simple directions: Combine dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients. Bake in greased bread pans (2) for 1 hour at 350°

My tips for this recipe are grease your pans VERY well (one of mine stuck) and watch the bread closely around 35 minutes into cooking because you may need to put foil over them to keep them from over browning on top. This bread can be tricky because it is darker than regular banana bread so it may be hard to tell. It took about 50 minutes in my oven and I probably should have taken it out a few minutes sooner.