Over New Year's weekend, Popmuse and I rented a house with some friends for a 3 day food and movie marathon. We had this for breakfast one morning and was my favorite thing I ate all weekend. It was buttery, sweet, and fun to pick apart. It's also very easy to make and a big crowd pleaser.
Easy Pecan Monkey Bread
3 (7.5 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough
1/3 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup brown sugar
Preheat the oven to 350. Grease Bundt pan. In a small bowl, stir together the white sugar and cinnamon. Set aside. Use scissors or a knife to cut each of the biscuits into various sizes. Each one can be cut into anywhere from 2 to 5 pieces. Sprinkle about half of the pecans amongst the 6 prepared pans. Roll pieces of biscuit in the cinnamon-sugar, and place them into the pans, distributing evenly. Sprinkle any remaining cinnamon-sugar over the dough balls. Mix together the brown sugar and melted butter. Stir in the remaining pecans. Distribute evenly over the pans of dough balls. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the biscuits are toasted and cooked through. Remove from the oven, and invert pan onto serving plates while still hot.
Why is it called monkey bread?
Posted by: Jon | January 04, 2008 at 08:59 AM
I'm really not sure. Here's what Wikipedia had to say:
Monkey Bread, also called "Affenbrot" (German, literally meaning "ape bread") Hungarian coffee cake and bubbleloaf, is a sticky, gooey pastry served as a breakfast treat.[1]Recipes for the towering bread first appeared in American women's magazines and community cookbooks in the 1950s. It is made with pieces of sweet yeast dough which are baked in a cake pan at high heat after first being individually covered in melted butter, cinnamon, sugar and chopped pecans. [2] It is traditionally served hot so that the baked segments can be easily torn away with the fingers and eaten by hand.[3]
Posted by: Bloghungry | January 04, 2008 at 09:05 AM
I have been craving sticky buns today. I am making this tonight, hope it is great!! Jeve
Posted by: | April 02, 2008 at 04:24 PM
Made it. It was very easy and fast. The taste was great for my husband and kid. I need to find a biscuit or premade bread mix that doesn't have that refrigerator biscuit aftertaste. But overall great easy satisfying recipe. Jeve
Posted by: | April 09, 2008 at 08:50 AM
just so people know, monkey bread is also great without the pecans, for whoever doesn't like them.
Posted by: Sarah | November 02, 2008 at 12:46 PM
just so people know, monkey bread is also great without the pecans, for whoever doesn't like them.
Posted by: Sarah | November 02, 2008 at 12:46 PM