Shine Supper Club - Sticky Monkey Bread
With Mother's Day right around the corner I have been finding myself thinking about food. Honestly? I think about food pretty much all the time. Lately I've been thinking about the things my mom made when I was young that have stuck with me over the years. With my own tot at home, I want to start great cooking memories with her - just like my mom did with me. The theme for this month's Shine Supper Club also fits right in - making your mom's best recipe!
I absolutely love my mom's homemade Sticky Monkey Bread. Sure, you can follow the recipe found on the side of the biscuit can, but this is the original version straight from the 1970's church cookbook of my midwestern town. This is the stickiest, gooiest version of goodness out there. While growing up, my mom would hand my sister and I our own plastic baggies filled with cinnamon and sugar to shake-shake the bits of cut canned biscuits and then toss into our well-used bundt pan. After a serious coating of butter, more sugar and cinnamon, and a bit of love, that seriously sticky bread was devoured on Sunday mornings.
She still makes it for us every time we visit.
This isn't the healthy breakfast dish. And, after talking with my mom, I was planning on adjusting the recipe to make it a bit less sugary and buttery but just couldn't. Why mess with something so good? I admit to updating the recipe with brown sugar and vanilla to give it a bit more kick, but other than that, this is the best Sticky Monkey Bread you'll ever make.
Ever.
This is a great recipe to make with the kids to surprise mom with on Mother's Day. It's super easy and you can't mess it up. And, along the way, your kids hone fine-motor skills as well as learn more about cooking in the kitchen. Older kids can make this pretty much all on their own - just remember to offer a helping hand when melting the butter and using the oven.
Ingredients
3 tubes buttermilk biscuits
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
Open the biscuit tubes (trying not to flinch when they pop) and then quarter. Your kids can use butter knives to cut the biscuits into bits or, if you've got young ones, they can tear the pieces into smaller pieces. Go ahead and preheat the oven to 350 F.
Fill a plastic zip-top bag with the plain sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Enlist the kids to shake-a-shake the bits in the cinnamon sugar, remove, and then drop into the bundt pan.
While things are shaking away, melt the butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon together until things are bubbly. You can also sprinkle in any leftover cinnamon sugar from the zip-top bag.
Pour the melted butter mixture over the sugar-cinnamon covered biscuit bits and then pop into the hot oven for 30-minutes.
Remove the bundt pan from the oven and let cool for 10-minutes. Place a large plate over the top of the bundt pan and carefully flip over. Let the big oeey-goooooey Sticky Monkey Bread rest for a few minutes before digging in.
Enjoy!
