Bisquick Cinnamon Rolls with Icing

This is modified version of the recipe included in Kevin Callan's book, Ways of the Wild: A Practical Guide to the Outdoors (Broadview Press, © 1993). The quantity given will yield eight cinnamon rolls, each approximately 2 1/2 inches in diameter.

Dry Ingredients

1 1/2 cups Bisquick
1 1/2 T margarine
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup raisins
OR 1/4 cup walnuts
OR 1/8 cup of each
Flour for rolling
1/2 cup icing sugar


Seal each ingredient separately for transport into the field. Pack a piece of waxed paper with the dry ingredients.

In the Field

Grease and heat a frypan.

Add enough cold water to bisquick mix to make a firm dough.

Place waxed paper on a canoe paddle or other flat surface and sprinkle with it flour. Roll the bisquick dough into a rectangle, about seven inches long and 1/4 inch thick, on the floured waxed paper.

Spread margarine onto flattened dough, sprinkle on cinnamon, sugar and raisins.

Roll dough into a seven inch long log and cut into one inch slices.

Place slices in a frying pan and cook on low heat, turning frequently to ensure that sugar doesn't burn. When rolls appear cooked on both sides, remove from frypan.

Mix icing sugar with a SMALL amount of water to make a runny icing. Drizzle icing over cinnamon rolls. Serve hot or cold.

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