Monkey Bread

This weekend we took a trip up to Massachusetts to visit Kelly and Taryn and their families (2 of my good friends from college). It's become sort of an annual trip over the last few years and it's always a fun time! I'm just glad they live close enough that I get to see them a few times a year. Especially because those kiddos grow up waaaay too fast!!

And Kelly's family even grew in size. Last month they adopted Athena, the cutest, sweetest boxer mix of a dog! Of course they claimed she's never behaved so well in the month they've had her but they also don't know what it's like to have a dog like Oliver! (I swear I love my "firecracker" child to death!!) Which was the main reason Taryn and I made Kelly host our get together because we couldn't wait to meet her (and of course we wanted to see the kids and Mark - that should be assumed!)

And since Taryn offered her place for us to crash afterward I jumped at the offer because I haven't seen Walter and Winnie since they had first gotten Winnie a couple years ago (also fur babies and the coolest dogs). I think Walter and Roxy would be BFF and Oliver and Winnie would be partners in crime for sure! It would be fun to see them all together (well maybe for a couple minutes before all hell broke lose!)

Last time we were at Taryn's, she and Al had also just bought their house a few months before so it was nice to see all they've done. I may hire her out to come down and help me figure out how to decorate our house!

And honestly the reason I think she wanted us to stay over so badly again was because she had to redeem herself from our last visit. They had bought all new, nice, stainless kitchen appliances (fridge, stove) and in the morning Taryn, being such a great hostess, decided to make us Monkey Bread - which I had never heard of but it sounded delicious! So she put it together and set it to bake in the brand new, never been baked in oven and in about 10 minutes she had a good oven fire going! We can make fun of her and laugh about it now because no one was hurt, including that beautiful stainless oven! But needless to say we didn't get to try the delicious Monkey Bread! So lesson learned: you can't use an angel food pan to make Monkey Bread, you need to use a bundt pan! And this time around there were no oven fires and the bread was every bit as delicious as I had imagined it was going to be!

And of course like every other year I bring my camera and not a single picture gets taken to document the trip! So instead I will post the Monkey Bread recipe.


Monkey Bread

Ingredients:
4 cans refrigerated biscuits
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter
1/2 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 ^o and grease bundt pan.

2. Mix white sugar and cinnamon in medium bowl. Cut the biscuits into quarters and coat each piece with the cinnamon/sugar mix.

3. Arrange pieces in the bottom of the greased pan. Continue layering until all the biscuit pieces are in the pan.

4. In a small sauce pan, melt the butter with the brown sugar over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over the layered biscuits.

5. Bake for 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Pull apart and enjoy!