I never buy biscuits, but when I do, I buy the expensive, overly large, flaky ones. You don't need those biscuits for this recipe. Any old cheap cans will work quite well.
And if you trust your kid with a knife, this is the perfect recipe for them to bake.
Monkey Bread
4 cans biscuits
1 cup sugar
1 Tbls cinnamon, or more
2 sticks butter (16 oz)
½ cup brown sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare tube pan by coating inside of pan with vegetable
spray (Pam).
Place sugar and cinnamon into resealable plastic bag
(Ziploc). Shake to mix. Set aside.
Place butter and brown sugar in heavy saucepan. Turn on low to melt butter.
Open two cans of biscuits, separate biscuits and cut into
quarters. Place cut pieces into bag, seal and shake bag to coat each piece of
dough. Shake excess sugar off dough pieces and evenly place into prepared pan.
Repeat above with remaining biscuits. I added about
another teaspoon of cinnamon to the mixture before tossing the biscuit pieces.
Turn up heat on sugar/butter mixture on stove. Boil 2-3
minutes, until foamy. Immediately pour over dough.
Place pan in oven and bake for 30 minutes. When brown, remove from oven and let sit for
10 minutes. Place large plate over top of pan and flip over to remove monkey
bread . . . allowing ooey-gooey goodness to roll down the sides of bread.
Rip apart and devour.
Hints & Suggestions:
·
Find the cheapest cans of biscuits you can. They
don’t need to look pretty if you’re cutting them into quarters.
·
I used a pretty Bundt pan instead of a boring
old tube pan.
·
I added more cinnamon to the sugar before
tossing the second batch of cut biscuits because the previous biscuits had
removed almost all the cinnamon.
·
If you need to bake longer, then do, but you
risk the ‘sauce’ caramelizing and burning in the bottom of the pan.
·
I didn’t have a plate large enough to place over
the Bundt pan, so I used a Christmas tray. J
Enjoy!Later, Peeps!
