Categories: Bread- cornbread- rolls- biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 stick butter, cut into pieces
• 1 cup fruit of choice (dried cranberries, dried apricots, blueberries, or blackberries)
• 1 cup buttermilk
• Icing:
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. almond extract
• 1/4 cup cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Directions

1. Spray cookie sheet with nonstick spray. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

2. Mix flour, baking powder and soda in a large bowl. Stir in oats. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until coarse crumbs. Add fruit, then stir in buttermilk to make soft dough.

3. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Roll out and cut with a biscuit cutter, or buy hand, to make about 1 dozen. Bake for 15 minutes.

4. Immediately top with icing when out of oven.

5. To make icing:

6. Mix together the butter, vanilla, almond extract, cream cheese, and one cup at a time of the powdered sugar, until stiff spreading consistency using a whisk.

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