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I just love cinnamon.   It has to be my favourite of the warm spices.  It comes from the inner bark of a few different trees, and is great in both sweet and savory dishes.  I think the smell of cinnamon in the air makes a house smell like a home. I was on Pinterest the other day and I found a recipe that looked fabulous.   (Don't you just love Pinterest?)  It came from a blog called Lauren's Latest .   They looked to good that I had to print it out and I could hardly wait for the weekend so that I could make them for us to enjoy. You will want to use the small pretzel twists for these.  You know the ones.  They are about 1 1/2 inch in size.  Lightly salted.   Don't use any that are flavoured with anything else.  That would just be ucky.   Make sure you mix all of the ingredients together really well when you are mixing in the cinnamon sugar so that they all get coated evenly.  I found that  the cinnamon suar d...

  I am at heart a rather lazy cook.  I know it may not seem like that, and I can put my shoulder to the wheel when I have to, and often do . . . but basically quick, simple, easy and tasty works for me most of the time.  I had been eyeballing a recipe over on Our Best Bites for a Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread for ages and ages.  Every so often I would go and look at it again, but to be honest . . . it seemed like far too much work and time and so I would walk away . . . lazy gal that I am. Then today I looked at it again and I thought . . . I bet I could do something similar to that using my baking powder biscuit recipe and it would be just as tasty, but made in a fraction of a time.  And so that's is what I did.  I used all butter in my biscuit dough instead of shortening . . . just to up the scrum factor you know. I tend to believe there can never be too much scrum factor.  Anyone who's with me on that put up your hands!  I thought so!  I also...

  I was going to show you my Pumpkin Fritters today with their Vanilla Caramel Sauce, but I'm afraid you are going to have to wait until tomorrow to see those, coz I have something which is just a tiny bit more scrummy to share with you today!  (Although, the pumpkin fritters are exceptionally scrummy as well!) I am mad for cinnamon, which you have probably guessed by now.  I just adore it.   I love the way it smells.  I love the way it tastes, both in sweet and savory goodies.  I love crafting with it (cinnamon ornaments on the Christmas tree at Christmas are the best!).  I just plain can't get enough of cinnamon. My mom used to make these Quick Cinnamon Rolls when we were kids as a treat.  We loved them.  I used to make them for my own children as well.   That was one way to put a smile on their faces big time!  Then there is my infamous Cinnamon Swirl Tea Bread.    People can't get enough of that when I bake i...