I did not care for it.

Four stars, because I had to significantly change these... When making the dough, I realized I was fresh outta raisins, (which really bummed me out... I so wanted raisin biscuits) so I subbed one Fuji apple, diced. Added in more cinnamon and Penzey's Apple Pie Spice (two different cinnamons / nutmeg / mace). An extra splash of buttermilk and a big ole' globber of applesauce. Nixed the glaze and made (from GERMAN PANCAKE WITH BUTTERMILK SAUCE recipe on here) that sauce for them instead. After letting them cool completely, they were really tasty as Caramel Apple biscuits!

I tried this recipe, thinking it would be a good fit for my eldest daughter, a picky eater, who loves both buttermilk biscuits and cinnamon raisin bread. The biscuits turned out nicely and had a pretty good flavor, but all in all my family simply thought they were "all right" and would have preferred my usual biscuits. I didn't have butter flavored shortening, so I substituted 1/3 cup butter and 1/3 cup shortening. I also found I had to add a little more buttermilk than the recipe called for in order to get all the flour mixed in. I probably won't make these again--maybe I'll go with yeast roll recipe for cinnamon rolls next time.