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12 April 2013

Monkey Bread It has been widely known as one of the most phenomenal breakfast foods ever, or as a snack throughout the day. I know in my case it’s an all day long kind of snack. The gooey, mouth-watering, caramelized cinnamon and sugar of monkey bread hits the spot no matter what time of day; but without one simple step to this mouth-watering medley it just wouldn’t be the same. To make monkey bread you want to initially make sure you have all your ingredients; which might mean taking a quick trip to the store. Most of the common household things you won’t need to pickup up: such as margarine, sugar, cinnamon, pam (or your choice of cooking spray), a pot, wooden spoon, bunt pan, and a platter to put your finished product on. Unless you’re running low on any of these items, the only things needed from the store are a can of Grand’s Flaky Layer biscuit’s and a can of Grand’s Home-style Buttermilk biscuit’s. Once you have obtained your ingredients and materials, you want to open up both cans of biscuit’s and preheat the oven to 350 degrees so that it is nice and warm by the time you are ready to use it. With the biscuits you just opened, you will also want to mix up about two cups of cinnamon and sugar. Once you have that mixture as you like, you can begin cutting up the biscuits. You want to cut one biscuit from each can into bite size pieces and place them both in the cinnamon and sugar. The cinnamon and sugar should be in a big enough bowl that when you go to coat the biscuits you just placed in there it won’t get all over the floor. Now place your biscuit pieces in the bunt pan, which should be lightly coated with your cooking spray. Following that, take the left over cinnamon and sugar and measure it out; normally you end up with approximately one cup to one and a half cups left. Begin melting two sticks of margarine on the stove on medium heat while you measure out the rest of your cinnamon and sugar. You’ll want about a cup and a half of the mixture, so depending on how much you have left over from the first step you will need to add little to none. Pour the mixture of cinnamon and sugar into the melted butter, occasionally stirring. You’ll leave this on medium heat until it begins to boil, turning into a thick glaze. Once you’ve reached the correct consistency of the glaze, turn the heat off, stir it for a bit more, and now pour the glaze over the evenly distributes pieces of biscuits in the bunt pan. No worries, the glaze will run between the pieces to the bottom and coat every bite size piece of biscuit in there. Now that you have put your mouth-watering monkey bread together in your bunt pan, your oven should be nice and warm and ready to go. Place the bunt pan on the top shelf of the oven and get ready to watch the clock. Depending on your oven, it typically takes about 45 minutes to an hour to cook thoroughly. The top pieces will harden, but in the end they’re nothing to worry about. It is a good idea to check approximately every 15 minutes to see what progress has been made; to check, take a toothpick and lift up one of the top crunchy pieces to make sure the underneath is not doughy. Once you have reached 45 minutes and you do your final check, the piece underneath should be cooked all the way through and the top layer should be near burnt. Many people are fond of the burnt pieces, but others choose to just eat around them. You have finally reached the end; getting to take out that bunt pan full of delicious bite size biscuit’s coated in cinnamon and sugar. Grab your platter you plan to put your monkey bread on and place it on top of the bunt pan; then by taking two hot pads, grab each side of the bunt while holding onto the plate too, now flip it over so that the monkey bread is on the platter. It might be necessary to take a fork to pull off the bunt pan, but once you do that, let your monkey bread cool. After about five minutes your tantalizing monkey bread is cooled off enough to eat. Now that you know how to make some delicious monkey bread head on into your kitchen and get your materials gathered.