Recipe #44 - Monkey Bread

Apparently monkey bread is sort of a "Mormon thing", I'm told.  I've had monkey bread since I was little, and I vaguely remember by mom calling it Monkey Brains, cuz it sort of looks like that.  Mom, is that right?  Or just my imagination?

Brains or bread, this dish is a treat.  Its sort of like eating lots of the gooey centers of a cinnamon roll where its got all the cinnamon and sugar goodness.  Who could resist?!

I have a yummy recipe for monkey bread that I really like but because it requires me to make the dough, I don't make it very often.  Mornings and I are not good friends, so to get up 2 hours before breakfast should be in the table...well, its just not happening.

This recipe starts with 3 cans of refrigerator biscuits.  Brilliant!  It takes 35 minutes from start to finish.  I can do that...from time to time.

You'll find this recipe on page 65 of the cookbook but its not online.  (If you've been following my blog and you don't have this cookbook yet, its time, honey.  Go buy it.  Or better yet, order it this second.  Click here!)

This is what you'll need:

Start by mixing your sugar and cinnamon, and toss it in a gallon sized ziploc bag.

Next you cut your biscuits into quarters.

(Just for the record, those aren't my hairy man-hands.  They actually belong to a man.)

Toss them in the bag too.

Once they're all cut, zip the bag up and give it a good shaking.  This will coat each of the biscuit pieces completely with cinnamon and sugar.

Put the biscuit pieces into your bundt pan.

Then you put the butter, brown sugar and honey into a bowl.

Microwave for about a minute, or until the butter is melted.

This mixture gets poured over the biscuits.

Its now ready to pop into the oven for about 20 minutes.

It comes out looking yummy already, but the gooey goodness is hiding in the bottom of the pan.

After letting it cool for 5 minutes, you invert the monkey bread onto a platter to serve it.

See!  Gooey goodness!  Now resist the urge to stick your finger in this goodness quite yet.  As my husband found out, its super hot and it sticks to you.  Then when you lick it off to stop it from burning your finger, its burns your tongue.  (That'll teach him to stay out until its time to serve it.)

It is hard to describe how sinfully good this stuff is.  You need to try it.  If you like cinnamon rolls (and really, who doesn't?!), you'll love this.  It gets inhaled every time I make it, and today was no exception.