Wednesday, February 4, 2015

MONKEY BREAD


Ingredients

For the bread:
  • 4 cans 7.5 oz. homestyle buttermilk biscuits
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon

For the glaze:
  • 3/4 cups butter
  • 3/4 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Directions

For the bread:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Cut each biscuit into fourths. Put pieces into a sack with sugarand cinnamon and shake well, coating each piece.
  3. Place the sugar coated pieces evenly around the inside of a well greased bundt pan. Make sure pieces are evenly distributed.

For the glaze:
  1. Bring butter, sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon to a boil, pour this mixture over the biscuits. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
  2. Drizzle more glaze on top if desired.

(Optional) Topping Glaze:
  1. In a small mixing bowl, add 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of whole milk and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
  2. Mix until smooth.
  3. Let stand for 5 minutes then drizzle over Monkey Bread.

NOTE: You can add about 1/2 cup of either chopped walnuts, or chopped pecans; or 1/2 cup of the above, plus 1/2 cup raisins before pouring in the glaze.