Monkey Bread

(from online)

Alright. Well, I had a little bit of trouble with this recipe. It’s not a difficult recipe, I just didn’t read it close enough....

Here’s the recipe and then I’ll tell you what I did instead:

Monkey Bread

Ingredients:

4 cans refrigerated biscuits

¾ cup packed brown sugar

½ cup butter

¾ cup white sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

Optional - ½ cup raisins

Directions:

1.       Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9-10 inch tube pan.

2.       Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a medium sized plastic bag. Cut the biscuits into quarters and place six to eight biscut pieces in the sugar/cinnamon mix. Shake well.

3.       Arrange pieces in the bottom of the greased pan. Continue layering until all the biscuit pieces are coated and in the pan. If you are using raisins, place them among the biscuit pieces as you are layering.

4.       In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the brown sugar over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over the layered biscuits.

5.       Bake for 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a plate. Pull apart and enjoy!

Well, you see, I read the part about mixing the sugar and cinnamon together as sugar and brown sugar. I don’t know why, but I thought that seemed right, so that’s what I did. I coated the biscuit pieces with a sugar/brown sugar mix. Then when I realized I had to boil the butter and brown sugar I was confused because I already used the brown sugar. Whoops.

Well after some thought, I decided to just keep going because I couldn’t change anything now anyway. So I melted the butter and brown sugar (another ¾ cup) as it told me to. I sprinkled some cinnamon on top of my layered biscuit pieces and then poured the butter/brown sugar over the top. I wasn’t sure if it was going to turn out because I did it completely wrong, but it actually turned out alright! I don’t know how well it compared to the actual thing because the last time I had monkey bread (made the right way) was when I slept over at Amber's house when we were like 10 and her mom made it for breakfast. I definately think hers was better than mine! But hey, my dad and my parents’ two friends that were over ate it and said it was good! Hopefully they weren’t just saying that to make me feel better… haha but they did eat almost a whole pan (I made two pans out of this recipe), so I assume they truly did like it. But I’m just glad it turned out decently =) Lesson learned: Always read the recipe carefully!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9-10 inch tube pan (I used 2 round pans and put a glass cup in the middle as a make shift tube pan). Mix white sugar and CINNAMON in a medium sized plastic bag. Cut the biscuits into quarters and place six to eight biscut pieces in the sugar/cinnamon mix. Shake well.

Arrange pieces in the bottom of the greased pan(s). Continue layering until all the biscuit pieces are coated and in the pan. If you are using raisins, place them among the biscuit pieces as you are layering.

In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the BROWN SUGAR over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over the layered biscuits. Bake for 35 minutes (I put a baking sheet on the bottom shelft to catch any drippings).

Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a plate (or just scoop pieces out of the pan). Pull apart and enjoy!

Next time I make this, I'll make sure I follow the directions more carefully!