Tutorial: EASY monkey bread

To me, weekends mean Monkey Bread.  As a kid, I remember HATING monkey bread!  Especially when my mom made it with the carmel that had ice cream in it.  I don't know why I hated it, but I did!  Growing up, I watched monkey bread being made a lot... sometimes Grandma, sometimes Mom, sometimes my friend's moms... As an adult, I've finally come up with a recipe that I like and my kids LOVE, which combines a lot of the skills from all the monkey bread making I observed growing up.  And the best part is, It's EASY!!!

SOOOO, here's what you need:



Start with a 8x8 glass pan (or you can use a round cake pan, something shallow),

1 Roll of JUMBO cinnamon rolls from the refridgerator section

Brown  Sugar

Cinnamon

1/3 stick of butter

plastic baggie

Preheat your oven according to the cinnamon roll directions. Unwrap the butter and use it to grease your pan... coat it on THICK, because this butter is going to help make carmel.  Then you can melt the rest of the butter.

   Put some brown sugar in the plastic bag... I don't measure, I just dump it in, but I'd guess that there's about 1/2  or 3/4 cup of brown sugar in there.  Sprinkle in cinnamon (3-4 shakes, depending on how fast it sprinkles out!)  Shake up your bag to mix it up. Then you're going to cut up each of the cinnamon rolls into quarters, and throw them in the plastic baggie, shaking as you go. 

The next step: Dump it all in the pan!  The extra sugar/cinnamon mixture will turn into carmel. 

 Drizzle the melted butter on the top, then put it in the over and bake as directed on the cinnamon roll package.  My package said to bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.  A word to the wise- do ONLY a single layer of rolls in the bottom of the pan... If you're going to double the recipe, use a 9x13 pan, don't layer it thicker, because then it doesn't cook as well. 

See how yummy and carmalized they look?

If your can of cinnamon rolls come with frosting, leave that on top of the oven while your monkey bread is baking, then drizzle it over top of the cinnamon rolls!

YUM!!!

Now they're ready to enjoy!