“Sausage” Biscuit Breakfast Pinwheel

by Clesha Staten on April 4, 2009 · View Comments

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So, this morning I woke up wanting some nice and toasty Trader Joe’s Blueberry Waffles, with Canadian turkey bacon on the side.  I’m not a big fan of eggs, so that’s usually no where on my radar.  Imagine my surprise when I got downstairs only to discover my waffles were gone.  Gone, as in I ate them all.  The horror!

Then I remembered I still had the ingredients I needed to make the breakfast pinwheels I saw in The Hungry Girl newsletter.  I made them before so I knew they were going to be good.  The recipe is really easy and there are only two ingredients.  Three if you count your appetite.  The title is a bit deceiving since this recipe uses a vegetarian sausage.

pinwheel-start

As I said, the recipe is easy.  Get out your baking sheet and preheat that oven to 350 degrees.  I’m all about the no clean up school of baking so I use parchment paper on my cookie sheet.  It protects your pinwheel bottoms and there’s no what?  Clean.  Up.  Line that cookie sheet!  If you don’t have parchment paper than don’t worry about it.  Just spray it with non-stick spray.

pinwheel-parchment

When you unroll your dough, it’s supposed to be seamless.  As you can see, mine wasn’t.  there was a tear going along the spiral of the container.  Don’t panic, just pinch it together and keep moving.  Gently spread out your dough along the sides so you’ll have a good sized rectangle.

pinwheel-dough2

Sprinkle your ‘sausage” crumbles evenly over the top and press them into the dough.  You’ll thank me later when your crumbles aren’t falling out out the creases while you’re trying to eat them.

pinwheel-topped

Roll ‘er up!

pinwheel-rolling

Now, for the very mathematical part.  Eyeball eight portions and make seven cut marks.  Told you it was all about the math.  Making the marks will help you to see if they are evenly portioned.

pinwheel-slices

Cut the sections and space them out on the cookie sheet.  If you have stray crumbles, pounce on them with the dough to reassimilate them into The Collective…I mean dough!  (You will get that if you watched Star Trek the Next Generation)

pinwheel-cut

Pop them into the oven until browned and viola, she is done.  They are sooo good right out of the oven.  Yum!  The two ends never stood a chance.

pinwheel-done

Now that you see how easy this is, I’m sure you’re anxious to try them yourself.  Let’s put it all together.

You’ll need:

  • Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations
  • 3/4 cup Morning Star Meal Starters Sausage Crumbles (yep, they’re vegetarian)
  • cookie sheet
  • parchment paper

Cooking It Up:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line your cookie sheet with the parchment paper, or spray with non-stick spray.
  3. Roll out your dough and try to get the sides even.  Don’t worry about neatness.  It doesn’t matter once it’s cut & baked.
  4. Sprinkle the “sausage” crumbles evenly over the top.
  5. Press crumbles into the dough.
  6. Start at the short side, roll your dough into a log.
  7. Eyeball your portions and make seven cut marks for eight portions.
  8. Cut your sections and space them on your cookie sheet, swirl side up.
  9. Bake for about 15 minutes.
  10. Enjoy!

Servings: 8

Points Value per serving: 3

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