Cinnamon Snails

So my good friend varunner asked me to post a picture of my Cinnamon Snails.  And I couldn't possibly do something so simple.

These are from a recipe my mom snagged from the Vancouver Sun a number of years back.  I believe that they are originally from the University of British Columbia, but I can't find a reference to back that up right now.  Suffice to say that the baking department of food services at UBC was solely responsible for at least 10 lbs of weight gain over my 2 years in residence there. 

The Recipe:

3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
5 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup butter
2 large eggs
1 cup milk
6 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

In large bowl, combine first 4 ingredients. Cut in butter till resembles coarse oatmeal. Beat 1 egg slightly and mix with milk. Stir into dry ingredients. LIghtly gather dough into a ball, being careful not to overhandle.
Place dough onto lightly floured surface and gently knead about 12 times.

Roll out to 9x18

Beat remaining egg and lightly brush over dough. Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over dough. Roll up like jelly roll, starting from long side. Cut into 18 slices. Place each slice in a paper lined muffin tin and bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes.
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Goes nicely with this stuff on the top:
1 stick butter
1 1/2 c powdered sugar
2 oz cream cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt

Soften butter and cream cheese, and whip together with sugar and vanilla. Try to stop eating it from the bowl before you make yourself sick. Save some for the kids.

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First, I started by cutting in the butter by hand.  Often I'm lazy and use my KitchenAid mixer, but today I thought I would see if there was a difference between manual and automatic.  (there isn't).

So once it's cut in, the recipe says it's supposed to resemble "coarse oatmeal".  Yeah, whatever.  It looks about the same to me as it did a minute ago, except without the big chunk of butter in the middle. 

Rolled it out into the requested 9x18 rectangle, and yes I measured it.

I only measured the center mark after rolling it.  I may be a touch obsessive about preciseness, but in the past I have measured off 1 inch segments and it doesn't make the snails any more even in size. 

Then they go into muffin tins!

Then you bake them.  Mmmm, my house smells like cinnamon rolls!

Oh dear, I just noticed I should have cropped that picture to eliminate the evidence of McDonald's fries from earlier in the day.  :whistle:  Anyhow, when they come out of the oven, they look like yummy cinnamon snails.  Until you cover them in cream cheese icing, which I do not have a photo of, sorry.