Eric's Monkey Bread

Holy hell balls this easy recipe turned into one heck of a nightmare!  I thought it would be awesome to take some monkey bread to work, who doesn't love a tasty breakfast? I'm blaming this kitchen nightmare on:

The fact that I worked 13 hours before I started to bake

That I didn't listen to my better judgement that there was to much biscuit in the pan

Words with Friends

Before we get into all the drama, let's start with the normal start to a post, here is how this became a family recipe.  Eric brought home the monkey bread recipe after he went to a sleepover when he was younger. His friend's mom served it for breakfast in the morning, and Eric instantly fell in love with this delicious treat and asked his friend's mom for the recipe.

Ingredients:

3 tubes of biscuits cut in to quarters (if you are using grands only use 2 cans and cut them in to 6ths)

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon 

Topping Ingredients

1 stick of butter

1 cup of sugar

1Tbsp cinnamon

Cut biscuits into quarters or if using Grands like I am 6ths

mix the 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon in a bag and drop in some biscuit pieces

shake to coat pieces, remove coated pieces and put them in a bundt pan and continue coating biscuit pieces until they are all coated

Put the coated pieces in a bundt pan 

*DO NOT fill to the top with biscuit pieces, like shown here. Only fill about 1/2 to 3/4 full

to make the topping

melt butter, sugar and cinnamon together over medium heat, stir often

bring topping to a boil

pour over biscuit pieces

Put in the oven and bake at 350 for 25-30 mins

Looks great up until this point, here is where things go of track, well to be honest they went off track when I used 3 cans of grands biscuits instead of 2 and didn't listen to the voice in my head that said, 

"hello, those bad boys are going to raise and they have no where to go!"

So I put them in the oven, set the timer and sat down to play some Words with Friends. 

When playing my friend Cari I have to give it all my concentration because she usually kills me.  Amazingly enough I am winning at the moment, but I know she is staging a comeback!

20 mins later, I head into the kitchen...

Hmmmmmm, it seems the kitchen is getting kinda smokey!! 

HOLY CRAP!

Into action I go:

turn the oven off

turn the hood fan on

open all the windows

pray I don't set the complex's fire alarm off (it's about 11:30pm)

of course grab my camera to take some smoke pictures

Now cut to me standing at the oven and opening the door just a little bit to let some of the smoke out so it can get sucked up by the hood fan and not continue to fill my apartment with smoke.  It takes a good 5 minutes of doing this before I can fulling open the door and remove the monkey bread and get a good look at what is going on.

Hmmmmmmm, why isn't my smoke detector going off, it is insanely smoke filled in my kitchen, I think it is time to change the battery!!!

oh yeah those things are exploding out of the pan, should have listened to my inner voice! 

Yikes, the topping poured all over my pizza stone that was under the bundt pan. 

What a burnt mess!

Ha, look some topping is now burnt and bent over the oven rack

Perfectly shaped burnt topping

So I removed the first burnt layer of biscuits exploding out the the pan. Clean the burnt crap out of the oven because of course the middle of this bread isn't cooked. So back in the oven it goes.

Damn, it rises out of the pan AGAIN!  I remove more of the top pieces, I'm about to put it back because the middle still isn't done. But before I do I dump it into a 9 x 13 pan because soon I'm going to burn the bottom of the bread and still have an uncooked center.

Finally it is all cooked!!

It is now time for bed, guess who will be cleaning her oven this weekend!!

Luckily they still taste good, they aren't as gooey as they normally should be because of course most of the topping is on my pizza stone and oven, but people at work are still enjoying them.

Enjoy!