Cottage Cheese Cinnamon Biscuits

I?ve been making this recipe for years, & I honestly couldn?t tell you where it originated from as it is one of those loose typed recipe sheets stuck into a recipe ?scrapbook? of mine. They are made with Cream Cheese - what we call "Cottage Cheese" here in Africa (I have no idea why !)

Your kitchen will smell wonderful as these bake ? a lovely buttery, cinnamon-y sweet scent that fills the whole house, and cries out for you to put the kettle on for a nice cuppa tea to go with them as they come piping hot out of the oven ! Mmmmmm ??????.


Cottage Cheese Cinnamon Biscuits

½ cup Margarine (or Butter)
¼ cup plain Cottage Cheese (or Cream Cheese)
1 cup Caster Sugar (fine white sugar)
1 Egg, beaten
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
3 cups Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Cinnamon Powder

Topping:
¼ cup brown Sugar
3 tsp Margarine (or Butter), melted
2 tsp Cinnamon powder

Cream the margarine, cottage cheese and caster sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and the vanilla extract, & continue beating. Sift in the flour, baking powder & cinnamon powder and mix well to blend and to form a soft dough. Place the dough, covered, in the fridge for about ½ hour or until firm (this makes it much easier to handle/roll). Roll flat on a floured surface and cut biscuit shapes out of the dough with a biscuit cutter & place on a lightly greased baking tray.

Mix the topping ingredients (sugar, melted margarine & cinnamon) together & spoon/spread on top of each biscuit, before baking at Gas Mark 5/190?C/375?F for 10 to 12 minutes until golden.