Biscuit dough mini monkey bread

I found an article by Babble via Pinterest. It was called 21 things you can make with a tube of biscuit dough. Oh, yummy! I was mostly interested in the recipe for Extreme Monkey Bread (also at Babble.com):

And here it is:

Extreme Monkey Bread
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup dark Karo syrup
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tubes of large Texas Layers biscuits
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamom

STEP 1. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine brown sugar, Karo syrup, sweetened condensed milk, butter, and vanilla. Stir all ingredients together until smooth & allow to heat just until boiling.

STEP 2. Open the packages of biscuits, separate each biscuit and cut into four pieces.

STEP 3. Stir together cinnamon and sugar. Toss cut biscuit pieces into the cinnamon and sugar.

STEP 4. Pour half of the caramel sauce into the bottom of a bundt pan which has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.

STEP 5. Place the cinnamon & sugar coated biscuit pieces on top of the caramel. Pour most of the remaining caramel over the top of the biscuits, setting about 1/4 cup aside for dipping, if desired. (The bundt pan will be verrry full. If you don’t have a bundt pan, try splitting your monkey bread into two large loaf pans, the sort you’d use to bake loaved of bread).

STEP 6. Bake in an oven preheated to 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes, or until the bread at the top of the bundt pan is golden brown. Allow to sit for 8-10 minutes before turning onto a plate. Serve immediately.

Yeah, that does sound extreme. That lead me to a search of a simple recipe for Monkey Bread. I found one at Pioneerwoman.com

Monkey Bread at Pioneerwoman.com (click here for the full recipe):

The ingredients include:

1/2 cup of brown sugar
2 sticks of butter (1 cup)
2 to 3 teaspoons of cinnamon
Bundt pan
3 cans of Buttermilk Biscuits (the non-flaky ones)
1 cup of sugar

Yes! Much more simple. Let’s try it! Okay, but I only bought one can of biscuits, they are the flaky ones, not the non-flaky ones and that just seems like a whole lot of butter. Oh, also I don’t have a bundt pan. So I adjusted the recipe into a mini monkey bread. I used the toaster oven since it was a smaller batch and placed it on the baking tray that came with the toaster.

Here’s my take on this recipe.

Mini monkey bread:
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1/2 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
1 can of jumbo biscuits, flaky, butter flavored
1/2 cup of sugar

-Cut each of the buttermilk biscuits into 6 pieces (instead of quarters, since these are jumbo and 6 pieces seem more bite sized)

-Mix the sugar and cinnmon together in a gallon storage bag.

-Drop the biscuits in the bag. I gave it to my son to shake. Big helper! Make sure each piece has a coating of cinnamon sugar.

-Line the baking tray with aluminum foil and then I placed the biscuits on it. I pushed the dough down just a little bit so that there were no spaces in between the pieces.

-On medium heat, I melted the butter and brown sugar together. About 3 minutes.

-Once well combined, I poured the butter/brown sugar mixture over the biscuits.

-Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

-Just like a bundt pan, turn the baking tray upside down onto a large plate. The butter and sugar will be nice and sticky and now on top!