Sweet Raspberry Bisquits

These things should be named Glazed Heavenly Love they're so good. My mom used to make these when I was a kid, and they always left a huge impression on me. Anyone who knows my mom knows she's a ridiculously good baker. I've mentioned my envy of her baking and culinary skills before on this blog, but just to make sure you understand my ineptness here is a post when I made delish deflated cupcakes. Or maybe here when I made what were supposed to be peanut butter cookies. So the other day when my mom gave me the recipe for these delicious treats I was a smidge hesitant that I'd be able to make them even resemble the wonderful muffins I had remembered from my childhood.

The recipe only starts off with 5 ingredients.

2c Bisquick
2 Tbs sugar
1/4 cup butter
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup Raspberry Preserves

Because I don't use anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup or dyes in it I had to really search while at Walmart for a good jam. At any other store it probably wouldn't have been such a mission to find a healthy option to use in the muffins, but here it proved particularly challenging. I settled on Smucker's Orchard's Finest, Northwest Triple Berry Preserves. It has 3 different berries in it and sugar. Those are it's only ingredients.

I also made an icing to go on top of the muffins while they're warm, just like my mom used to. A bit of powdered sugar, some real vanilla and milk is all it takes to make a super tasty glaze.

Step 1. Mix Bisquick, sugar and butter until crumbly. Add milk and mix until dough forms. (about 15 strokes)

Step 2. Place 1 Tbs dough in each cup, top with 1 Tbs of preserves, drop remaining dough onto preserves. And viola! You'll have a rather unattractive mess of a muffin just like I did.




Step 3. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes until golden brown and then top with your super tasty 3 ingredient glaze. (I will say that I think my oven is off because I had to bake them a bit longer, and the first batch I pulled out a bit too soon so they had to be eaten with a fork. The golden brownish color is the best indicator of it's doneness.)

Whether they're eaten with a fork or as a whole muffin they're absolutely delicious. Jack devoured his this morning barely taking a second to breathe in between bites.

Abigail who isn't a fan of sweet things (I know, weird.) liked these just fine and enjoyed them with milk.

Henry however threw a fit. These were 2 different colors and crumbly. It didn't make him happy. When he was done throwing a fit and he was finally invited back to the dinner table he exclaimed, "Hey! These ARE good even with the weird purple stuff!". So there ya have it. A hit with all of us. And the best part - they're so super easy I didn't even mess them up!