Biscuits and More Biscuits...What Else Can I Say?

Today, a friend of mine posted a biscuit recipe on her blog -- Little Wife on the Prairie.  Biscuits.  Yum.  It's "colder than kraut," to quote my Mima, and warm biscuits with butter and strawberry jam were so very appealing.  So...for dinner, I made her Baking Powder Biscuit recipe.  They were so very easy!  I remember my mom making biscuits and it seemed to take forever.  Maybe I was little and so it just seemed like forever.  Who can say?  These, however, went together FAST!  (I know -- my grammar is incorrect, but it works best here!)  Dump it together, stir it up, knead 10 times, roll it out, cut 'em up, bake them, & devour!  Wahoo!

Rachelle's biscuits turned out great, but as I was making them, I got a hankerin' (yes, hankerin', I am from the South after all!) for Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits.  The town I grew up in had a Hardee's, and they have the best Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits.  No, really!  When I was in college, we would go to Hardee's at 2:00 in the morning because that's when the first batch of Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits came out.  They were warm and cinnamon-y and tender.  Such wonderful memories of great times with great friends!  The town I live in now does not have a Hardee's, and I haven't had a Cinnamon Raisin Biscuit in more years than I can remember.  Tonight, after getting Rachelle's biscuits in the oven and experiencing how quickly they went together, I could not wait any longer.

I wasn't exactly sure how to adapt her recipe to make Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits.  So...I hit up Google.  The first recipe that came up looked like a winner -- Classic Homemade Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits.  Of course, you know that I "can't leave well enough alone."  :-)  So to get the original recipe, check out the link above...OR you can keep reading, and see how I did it.

Ingredients: 

2 cups unbleached white flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 Tbsp granulated honey
3/4 cup butter (That would be 1 1/2 sticks.  Wow!)
1 cup milk
1 cup raisins

Glaze:
2 Tbsp melted butter
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
splash of vanilla
Mix the above ingredients, then add enough water for desired consistency

Instructions: 

1.  Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2.  Cut butter into flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
3.  Add milk and raisins and "drop" biscuits onto a baking stone.
4.  Bake for 10-13 minutes.
5.  Place biscuits on a cooling rack on a cookie sheet and allow to cool 5-10 minutes.  Drizzle with glaze. 
6.  Allow biscuits to dry for a bit and indulge with a glass of milk, or coffee, or hot chocolate!