These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Mini Cinnamon Rolls {No Yeast} Recipe

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn’t be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Three things that I adore in any recipe:

  1. EASY
  2. Mini
  3. Breakfast!!

And when you put them all together in one delicious little cinnamon bun? I’m sold.

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Everything starts out with a can of crescent roll dough. If you can find the kind that’s not perforated, all the better. But if not (I never can), simply pinch together the seams to form one solid rectangle of dough.

Then sprinkle the whole thing with cinnamon and brown sugar. Unlike regular yeasted cinnamon rolls, we don’t need any butter at this step, because there is already so much butter in the dough itself.

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Roll the dough and slice it up, just like you would regular cinnamon rolls.

If your seams start to break apart a little (you can see mine did), don’t worry about it. Just pinch them together as best you can. These don’t have to be perfectly pretty to be perfectly delicious!

As you can see…

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Be sure to grease the pan really well before sticking these guys in there. All that brown sugar can really create a sticky situation!

Then bake, frost, and YUM!

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Just look at how gooey these are!

Cinnamon roll perfection in every pop-able bite.

These melt in your mouth cinnamon rolls couldn't be easier thanks to refrigerated crescent roll dough!

Enjoy!

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

Overnight Blueberry French Toast Recipe

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

You guys. THIS is French toast. Made with thick slices of homemade blueberry bread that soak up a cream and egg custard, topped and baked with a caramel sauce that is out of this world! If you’ve ever eaten monkey bread, you’ll find that it tastes very similar to the way the caramel sauce bakes into the bread in this recipe.

D-E-L-I-S-H.

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

I cut very thick slices of blueberry bread from the loaf I made last week for this overnight baked French toast. I fit 6 pieces into this 10×15 baking dish. Honestly, the slices are so thick and hearty, I would say that once slice makes a decent serving. But with the way that caramel soaked bread melts in your mouth, I could have probably eaten the entire pan myself, so… you’ll have to be your own judge of serving sizes here!

Over top of the bread goes an egg-y custard made with heavy cream, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla. The thick slices of bread soak it all up overnight like a sponge.

Now here comes the best part…

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

Over top of the soaked bread slices, you pour a caramel-like sauce made of butter brown, brown sugar, and a little bit of corn syrup or a corn syrup substitute. As everything bakes together, the sauce saturates the bread and bubbles up all around creating a caramel sauce that replaces the syrup you would normally eat with french toast.

I never want to make French toast any other way ever again ????. Just saying.

There are no words to describe how amazing this French Toast is. Baked in caramel sauce and filled with juicy blueberries, this make-ahead breakfast is flavor to the max!

Just look at that bite!! Seriously. You are going to fall in love with this recipe. I can’t wait for you to try it!

And if you don’t feel like making blueberry bread– that’s ok. This recipe is still amazing with any kind of thick, hearty, crusty bread. And you can always make this sauce with blueberries to go over top!

This soft and moist blueberry quick bread can be mixed up so fast! Packed with blueberries and vanilla flavor.

Blueberry Bread Recipe

This soft and moist blueberry quick bread can be mixed up so fast! Packed with blueberries and vanilla flavor.

This soft and moist blueberry quick bread can be mixed up so fast! Packed with blueberries and vanilla flavor.

Happy Friday! Any fun plans for the weekend?

I’m hoping to squeeze in a few mini photo sessions (did I tell you that I’ve started doing portrait photography? It’s so much fun!)

But before I can get to my weekend, I have to get through the Farm Days field trip with my daughter’s class…. ????.

Maybe even as you’re reading this, I’m likely trudging through animal mud with a baby strapped to my chest, a handful of kindergartners at my side, and sneezing my way through horse dust.

I am not an animal person. I know I just lost about half of you, but it’s the truth. I’m not. No, I don’t even like your cute puppy. I mean, I’m not going to kick it while you’re not looking or anything. But I’ll kind of pretend to sort of half pet it and then spend the rest of our conversation hoping your dog’s hair doesn’t make my eyes swell up or give me itchy hives up and down my arm.

I swear, I really am a nice person. I just don’t do the animal thing.

And I’m not really a kids-that-aren’t-mine person for that matter (ha! and I’m only barely a kids-who-are-mine kind of person!)

So basically, what I’m getting at is this. Farm Days with my daughter’s kindergarten class is my own personal version of parental hell. And I would so much rather be planted on the couch with a book and a warm loaf of this blueberry bread.

Just sayin. ????

 

This soft and moist blueberry quick bread can be mixed up so fast! Packed with blueberries and vanilla flavor.

Moving on….

This bread is so spring time to me! It’s sweet and fluffy and packed full of juicy blueberries. Remember back when I had a weird thing with the texture of blueberries and could only eat them from a can and in muffins?

Thank goodness this Berry Cheesecake Trifle came along and totally changed how I feel about fresh blueberries! Just think about all the yummy things I’d be missing out on ????.

This soft and moist blueberry quick bread can be mixed up so fast! Packed with blueberries and vanilla flavor.

This bread would be so good with a lemon glaze! But it’s also amazing on it’s own, smothered in butter, fresh and warm out of the oven with a glass of milk and a good book. It’s the perfect spring time, Saturday morning breakfast 🙂

I hope you spend at least part of this weekend curled up on the couch with a thick slice of Blueberry Bread. Enjoy!

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

Vanilla Almond Poppy Seed Muffins with Lemon Glaze Recipe

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

When life hands you lemons…

Make a yummy icing to drizzle over these vanilla almond poppyseed muffins! Or make Lemon Blueberry Scones, Lemon Blueberry Sweet Rolls, Lemon Poppyseed Banana Bread, or Lemon Chess Bread Pudding. Or this Lemon Marshmallow Meringue Pie.

Just to suggest a few ????????.

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

—>You guys… that pudgy little hand ????! I couldn’t even be mad about him ruining every shot, because his little fingers make my heart explode.

A-hem. Back to the muffins.

Originally, I was going to make regular lemon poppyseed muffins. But the thought of a sweet vanilla and almond muffin filled my brain and so I settled for lemon icing instead. I don’t know what it is about spring time, but it brings out the almond extract lover in me. Constructing a muffin that involves both almond extract and lemon just felt so right.

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

And a muffin with a glaze? That felt right too. Mostly because I like cupcakes any time of day. And since we’re calling it a “glaze” and a “muffin,” it’s now acceptable to eat this very NON-cupcake for breakfast!

You’re so welcome.

My twist on the traditional lemon poppyseed muffin! Sweet, soft muffins with subtle notes of vanilla and almond topped with a creamy lemon glaze.

These muffins are super soft on the inside with a little hint of crunch from the poppy seeds. The lemony glaze on top compliments the almond flavor in the muffins and creates a spring time muffin nirvana that you will adore.

And you’ll keep coming back for more.

Because… it rhymed.

???? #nerd #mombrain #imsotired #stoptalkingnow  #maybesendhelp

These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

Easy Biscuit Donuts Recipe

These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

I’ve said it a million times, and I’ll say it again: donuts are my kryptonite.

I could eat donuts for every meal (I mean, I don’t… but I could ????) and be so happy.

Growing up, my dad would visit a local bakery most Saturdays and come home with a box of freshly made donuts. I looked forward to it each weekend. Of course, we didn’t like anything that wasn’t covered in chocolate and sprinkles.

These days I love warm donuts coated in cinnamon and sugar or a simple buttermilk glaze. I L-O-V-E custard filled and angel cream filled donuts, and I adore devil’s food cake donuts. But back then, it was only about the chocolate frosting and the sprinkles.
These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

These donuts are made to taste just like a bakery’s donuts– fried, not baked. But there’s a simple shortcut to that famous bakery taste! You can skip over the mixing and kneading and rising and cutting by using refrigerated biscuit dough instead of homemade.

It tastes just as good, I promise.

Here’s the secret: glaze the donuts before you frost them.

Any good donut-making bakery worth its salt will glaze their donuts before frosting them. It makes all the difference in the world between feeling like you’re eating something fried and feeling like you’re eating something that melts in your mouth.

These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

So let’s talk about the frosting. I already cheated using the refrigerated dough, so I decided to go the homemade route with the frosting. If you wanted, you could always just melt canned frosting and dip the donuts in that. But for today’s donuts I made my favorite chocolate glaze (the same I used on these NYC Black & White Cookies).

I think the chocolate glaze is perfect. But if you wanted something a little thicker, you could always dunk your donuts in this chocolate ganache. Unreal.

These shortcut donuts are made with refrigerated biscuit dough for an easy version of a deliciously soft and warm bakery style donut.

Enjoy!

Healthy Chocolate Mousse

Healthy Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Healthy Chocolate Mousse

Bad news y’all. I don’t have any time to stay and chat today. I’m really sorry!

I try to do this pretty much never, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to eat and run. Today has been nuts. Just simple as that. But it’s totally okay. Because this recipe is actually perfect for those nuts-o kind of days. In fact, I made myself a bowl this morning before running out the door!

It’s two ingredients + fruit (if you want), takes about 10.2 seconds to whip up, and uses healthy ingredients! Win-win-win, right? Plus, it tastes like dessert. So another win.

Healthy Chocolate Mousse

I hope you enjoy this on your busy days as much as I do! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to scoot!

Diner-Style Pancakes Recipe

Perfectly light, fluffy, and HUGE Diner Style Pancakes

We looooooooooooooove pancakes in this house. Like… love love. It’s not a special occasion food for us at all. It’s more like a Monday through Saturday food (because Sundays I usually try and do something a little extra special… you know.. like cereal or something 😉 .

Every morning I ask Emma what she wants for breakfast.

Every morning she says, “pan-pakes, please.”

And everrrrrrrrrrry morning I think, ooooh yeah, pancakes do sound good!

Perfectly light, fluffy, and HUGE Diner Style Pancakes

Which is why we have pancakes pretty much every day of the week for breakfast. Sometimes we take a little bit of a healthier route and make skinny funfetti pancakes or  oatmeal pancakes or even these paleo banana pancakes.

But sometimes we get really wild, toss caution to the wind, and decide to make these gigantic, bigger-than-face-sized, diner-style pancakes smothered in butter and syrup. With chocolate milk on the side. Because, duh.

Perfectly light, fluffy, and HUGE Diner Style Pancakeshttps://www.somethingswanky.com/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-buttermilk-pancakes/

For those of you who aren’t quite as… er.. experienced… in the world of diner-style pancakes as I am, here’s what makes a diner-style pancake different than just regular old pancakes:

Cinnamon Toast Pancake Bread

Cinnamon Toast Pancake Bread Recipe

Everything you love about a pancake in quick bread form – A moist, tender bread with lots of cinnamon-y goodness, hints of maple flavor, and a cinnamon sugar coating,  – all topped off with a generous sprinkle powdered sugar. Yum!

Cinnamon Toast Pancake Bread

Hi to all you awesome Something Swanky readers! I’m Emily and I blog over on Layers of Happiness where I share lots of delicious eats and treats with my mom. I am super excited to get the opportunity to share some delicious baked treats with all of you fun food-loving friends. Today I am sharing a super comforting and delicious Cinnamon Toast Pancake Bread with you.

This bread seriously blew me away with how yummy it was. It tastes just like the super pillow-y thick, soft pancakes you’ve always dreamed of and more. Hints of maple and cinnamon, and a cinnamon sugar coating. This is what all pancakes should taste like.

And because it’s a quick bread, it can easily be made ahead of time and eaten up throughout the week on-the-go. Say what?! Pancakes on a weekday morning. Yes way. And the best part is this bread comes together in about 10 minutes (maybe 5 if you are cool like that) with no mixer required. Long live easy recipes!!

Cinnamon Toast Pancake Bread