Recipe: Maine Monkey Bread

Maine monkey bread is a very easy recipe to make because it uses ready to bake biscuits like Pillsbury biscuits. You just put it all together and you end up with what looks like a gourmet pastry! Maine monkey bread is a sticky, gooey, pull apart bread that is traditionally served for breakfast. However, you can whip it up for dessert for any meal or you can bring it to your next pot luck party. And don't worry about how you put this Maine monkey bread together. It will come out great every time!

Ingredient List:
1+1/4 sticks of butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons water
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 packages of refrigerated, ready to bake biscuits
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the first 4 ingredients (the butter, the 2/3 cup of sugar, the water and the 2 teaspoons of cinnamon) in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil over low heat. Then remove the sauce from
the heat and set it aside.

Next, combine the 1/2 cup sugar with the 1 tablespoon of cinnamon in a shallow dish. Take apart the 3 cans of biscuits then cut each biscuit into quarters. Roll each piece of biscuit in the cinnamon sugar mixture then place them evenly to cover the bottom of an ungreased bundt pan.

Pour about 1/3 of the sauce over the biscuits and also sprinkle a few of the nuts on the biscuits. If you love nuts, you can add as many as you want! You are not limited to just 1/2 cup of nuts. Continue to add layers of biscuits, sauce and nuts in the same manner until all the biscuits, sauce and nuts are used up.

Bake the Maine monkey bread for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then remove from the oven and immediately turn the bread over onto a large plate to cool.

When you serve the Maine monkey bread, let everyone go wild just pulling it apart. You will need some wet cloths for everyone's hands because Maine monkey bread is very sticky. But most of the fun comes in pulling it apart. It makes everyone look like they are acting like monkeys!

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