Food Friday--Apple Butter Monkey Bread

I had never made monkey bread before, though I had been wanting to for quite some time, but I didn't have a Bundt pan and though I know it can be made in a regular bread pan, it's just more fun in a bundt pan. So I waited.

Until I stumbled across a recipe that I just couldn't not make.  I already had everything except the special pan, so I braved the snowy roads and found a cheap bundt pan and made this monkey bread for breakfast the next morning.  

The sugar glaze held in the heat for a LONG time, so be warned, it stays super hot and will burn you if you are not careful.  But it's worth any number of burnt fingers.  :)

Apple butter monkey bread

What you need

2 cans of refrigerated biscuits (I just used the cheaper store brand that are 8-10 in a tube, or you could make your own biscuits, just don't bake them.  They need to be uncooked for this recipe)

2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup apple butter (I used this recipe, but you could use boughten apple butter if you must.)

What you do

Pre-heat your oven to 350 and non-stick spray or grease your bundt pan.  Open your biscuits and separate them, then cut each one into 4 roughly equal chunks.  In a small bowl, combine the 2/3 cup of sugar with the cinnamon.   Roll your biscuit pieces in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat, and drop them in a greased Bundt pan. Make sure they are distributed evenly around the pan.

Biscuits

So, I did not completely separate them before I cut them into chunks.  It's okay, just make sure they are separated before rolling them in the cinnamon sugar.

Cinnamon and sugar

combined to make yumminess

Biscuit pieces having a dust bath

and in the bundt pan.  

In a small sauce pan, bring the butter, brown sugar and sugar to a nice rolling boil and cook until sugar is dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the apple butter. Pour this mixture as evenly as possible over the dough, and bake for 30 minutes.  Once you remove it from the oven, let it stand for 10 minutes, then turn it upside down onto a serving plate.  Tap it a few times and remove the pan.  Remember, it will still be VERY hot, so be careful.

Those little biscuits puff quite a bit when cooking

Om nom nom!

Gratuitous kitty.  :)