Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is a favorite breakfast treat for my family. I usually make this cinnamon sugar caramel pull-apart bread for birthday mornings, when we have guests, or when the kids have sleepovers with friends. Monkey bread is the ultimate morning treat.
It was a busy week last week; both my boys had birthdays! Sandwiched between Christmas and New Year, that makes for a lot of eating and celebrating! I try to spoil my kids on birthdays, letting them choose whatever they want: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The skies the limit. Tuesday was Luke’s birthday. He turned 11 and requested homemade donuts for breakfast and fried chicken for dinner. Like I said, “The sky is the limit”. So when Noah (14), whose birthday was Thursday, said he would like Monkey Bread for his birthday breakfast and take-out pizza for dinner. I kissed and hugged him and thanked him until he said, “MOM, alright already!”
Monkey Bread
Equipment
- 1 bundt or an angel food cake pan
Ingredients
- 3 cans Pillsbury buttermilk biscuits
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a zip-loc bag add granulated sugar and cinnamon, zip and shake to combine.
- Pop open tubes of biscuits. Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces. Put biscuit pieces in bag with sugar. Do not put all the pieces in at once add them gradually shake, then add more, and continue until all the pieces are coated with cinnamon sugar. Dump cinnamon coated biscuit pieces into the bundt pan.
- In a 3 quart sauce pan add butter. Melt butter and add brown sugar. Stir combine until you have smooth caramel sauce. Whisk in vanilla. Remove from heat.
- Pour caramel sauce over biscuit pieces in bundt pan.
- Place pan in preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes. Let monkey bread rest for 10 minutes before inverting onto a platter.
- Take a plater that is 4-6 inches in diameter bigger than your bundt pan. I like to use a round pizza pan for this. Place pan top side down over bundt pan and flip over so that bundt pan is not upside down, carefully lift bundt pan off to reveal your monkey bread.
- Pull pieces out one by one, or you could slice if you rather.
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Monkey Bread is one of my favorite breakfast treats! Happy Birthday to both of your boys, Sheila!
Love this. Happy new year, and a great year of 2011!
I heart Monkey Bread. Bless your heart…. that's a LOT of celebrating, and hosting to have all at one time of year! I hope things have settled and you can get some rest now.
That looks so yummy! Wow, 2 birthdays and christmas and New years, that must be busy! My kids have birthdays 9 days apart and I find that pretty crazy, and that's not even in the holiday season.