Monkey Muffins

We love Monkey Bread around here but sometimes a big pan of it is just too much, you know? So I decided to reduce the recipe and make muffin sized servings. (Sometimes I impress even myself.) I used the Grands sized biscuits and cut them in quarter sized pieces but if you want to make them even smaller you could do that. I put 3 cut pieces in each muffin cup but to quarters works too and gives you more muffins. So many combos! Just try them...easy and fun!

Monkey Muffins



1 10 count serving package of Grands biscuits
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1/2 stick butter ~ melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cupcake pan with liners.

Cut biscuits into quarters. (I used my kitchen shears)

Melt the butter in a medium sized bowl. Add the cut biscuits and toss to coat.

Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a dish. 

Roll the buttered, cut biscuit pieces in the cinnamon/sugar then place 2 or 3 pieces into each cup.

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, until lightly browned and done. 

While muffins are hot, drizzle each muffin with a teaspoon of glaze.

Allow to cool then drizzle muffins with remaining glaze.


Glaze

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 - 4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix in a small bowl and drizzle over cooked muffins. 


 

Let's go!

 

Mix up the cinnamon sugar.

 

Cut up the biscuits.

 

Toss them in the melted butter.

 

Then roll in the cinnamon/sugar.

 

Then place two or three 

pieces in a muffin cup.

 

Bake!

 

Mix up the stuff for the glaze.

 

Drizzle a little glaze over the hot 

muffins. Allow to cool.

 

Dunk the cooled muffins in the 

remaining glaze. Then eat!!

Cream Cheese Monkey Bread

The very first time I heard of Monkey Bread was back in the late 70's. My BFF from high school was visiting town and she made it for some of us. I have to say....deee-lish! And so easy. My friend and I loved to go to "new and exciting places" as we put it. I think the most exciting place we went to was the restaurant on the top floor of a department store in Tucson and we'd order Grasshopper Pie. So good! I like to think we've evolved a bit more and have expanded our horizons and now go to better "new and exciting places". Good friends are hard to find and I'm proud to that say Crystal and I are still buddies! You should try this Monkey Bread. I bet it would taste better with a friend.

Crystal's Cream Cheese 
Monkey Bread




1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 8-ounce pack cream cheese
3 cans biscuit dough
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter ~ melted
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans ~ optional

Spray a fluted bundt pan with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together the melted butter and brown sugar. And the pecans, if using. 

Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.

Working with one can of dough at a time, cut each biscuit in half.

Stretch it out a little bit.

Place about 1 teaspoon or so of cream cheese onto the biscuit.

Sprinkle with some cinnamon/sugar.

Close the biscuit around the filling, pinching to close.

Place into the bundt pan, seam side down.

Repeat with all ingredients, working your way around the pan then layering. (The biscuit balls will be about halfway up the sides of the pan.)

Bake for 30 - 35 minutes until nicely browned and done in the middle.

Remove from the oven and allow to stand for about 10 minutes.

Place a large plate or serving dish on top of the pan.

Holding the bottom of the pan with the plate firmly on top, quickly flip the Monkey Bread out of the pan onto the plate.

All the brown sugar goodness should trickle down into all the nooks and crannies of the bread.

Eat while still warm.

Here's what you'll need. I used ONE box of cream cheese and THREE cans of biscuits.

Combine the melted butter and the brown sugar.

Pour it into the bottom of your pan.

Combine the cinnamon and sugar.

Cut each biscuit in half and stretch it out a bit.

Then add a dab of cream cheese.

Then some cinnamon/sugar.

Pinch the biscuit closed.

Then place it in the pan, seam side down.

Continue until all the ingredients are used.

Bake!

Then flip it out/over onto a serving plate.

Then eat!!!