Not your average biscuit: Easy dough-based meals and snacks

Alexandra Ronnestrand, Staff Reporter

Biscuits go with a lot of things.  We can eat them with chili, make biscuits and gravy or slather them with butter and jelly; there is no wrong way to eat them.  So why not make biscuits into a meal themselves?  For breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snacks, biscuit dough is made to be versatile.  There are many easy and delicious ways to convert biscuit dough into waffles, Nutella rolls and more.  

Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day.  Start it off right with waffles baked with bacon bites.  Grab two packages of Pillsbury biscuit dough and some bacon.  Fry the bacon up, and, when ready, place a portion of the bits into one flattened out package of dough.  Place it into the waffle maker and repeat with the second case, and voila!  

For another tasty breakfast, cook up some sausage and eggs, then place them in individual biscuits, toss it all in the oven, and wait till golden brown.  

Other favorites like pizza and burgers can be turned into biscuit style meals, as well.  For miniature pizzas, place individual biscuits in the sockets of a cupcake pan.  Dab or douse on marinara sauce, cheese and pepperoni.  To mix it up, try other toppings, but not too many.  Place them in the oven till you’re satisfied.  

There aren’t many things better than cheese, so why not make cheese bombs?  Set the oven to 400.  Grab the biscuits, preferably the ones that come in sets of eight, from the refrigerator, and separate.  Place a one-inch cube of cheese in each biscuit.  Fold them up and put in the oven for roughly 10 minutes.  For added deliciousness, melt half a stick of butter and add Italian seasoning and garlic powder to brush over the cheese bombs when they are done.  

There are many different foods that can be stuffed in the middle of a biscuit.  Say for instance someone wanted to make Nutella rolls, cinnamon rolls or jelly donuts. It can be done.  

To make Nutella rolls, preheat the oven to 350°, flour and sugar the bottom of the muffin tin pan and roll out each biscuit.  Spread on about 2 tablespoons of Nutella on each one, roll them up and cut into three sections.  Place the three pieces into one section of the muffin tin.  While they cook for 15 minutes, take 4 oz of cream cheese, 1 tablespoon of vanilla and 1.5 cups of powdered sugar and stir together to make an icing.  

For easy cinnamon rolls, roll the biscuits into one large one, spread 1 tablespoon of melted butter, then cinnamon and sugar over the dough.  Roll in up, cut into 6 parts and place in the oven for 20 minutes.  

With endless ideas, create your own with peanut-butter and jelly, apples, or another of a delicious sort.  Bon Apatite!