Need a quick and easy snack when friends are coming for coffee? Or a treat for breakfast? Dessert when you don’t have much time but want something that’ll just hit the spot? Yeah, me too! Sometimes, I have really good luck making monkey bread. Sometimes, it’s turned out to be an unmitigated disaster as I channel my inner Hannah. **Hey, bee…cause I’m standing right here. I heard that! I can too make something like this. Just ask Sade!** Yeah, no. Not going there. Anyway, if you’ve got the supplies on hand–and if not, you might want to dash out and grab them–this is pretty darn tasty.

Prep Time: 15 Min.
Cook Time: 30 Min.
Total Time: 45 Min
6-8 servings

Ingredients
3 tubes buttermilk biscuits (8 ounces each) – these are regular size biscuits though I’m tempted to try the Grands with this recipe!
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 cup unsalted butter (melted)
1/2 cup browns sugar (packed)

Let’s Make It
1 – Preheat oven to 350℉ and grease bundt pan with butter or cooking spray.

2 – Open biscuits and separate. Cut each one into four bite-sized pieces.

3 – Combine granulated sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Mix.

4 – Carefullly drop a few dough pieces into bowl and coat with cinnamon-sugar mixture then layer each “batch” evenly in the greased bundt pan.

5 – Put butter, brown sugar, and 1/2 cup of remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture in a small saucepan. Stir to dissolve sugars and bring to a gentle boil. Remove from heat and drizzle sauce over the dough in the pan.

6 – Bake for 30-35 minutes or until done.

7  – Cool bread for approximately 5 minutes. Invert pan onto a large plate. Serve warm.

A bit of a history lesson: “Monkey bread” is derived from a Hungarian dessert called arany galuska, aka Hungarian Coffee Cake. Hungarian and Hungarian-Jewish bakeries introduced the dessert to the US in the 1950s. Actual “monkey bread” is a bread dish in which balls of dough are dipped in butter, layered in the cake pan and baked. Arany galuska is made with cinnamon and sugar. There you have it. Now, since I mentioned Hannah and Sade above, you’d think they’d have some input. Nope. This recipe was suggested by Izzy Fontaine, who did so with a bit of a red face. She admitted to me that she was looking for something “ethnic” to bake for her mate, Rudek Tornjak. He’s of Bosnian and Romanian descent but the closest she could get was Hungary. And if you are hungry for something sweet and easy, why not this Hungary dessert? Anyway, theirs is an interesting story. She’s from a large Cajun family living in the bayous of Louisiana and Rudy was living in New Orleans. Their individual story is told in ROGUE MOON but why not spend a little extra and get MOONSTRUCK: BETRAYAL which contains BRIDE’S MOON, along with an only-published-in-this-edition novella that has some interesting background, considering HARD TARGET: CROSSFIRE is coming sooner than later. Anyway, just click on a pic or a title and jump over to Books2Read to get a copy. Or if you already have, it’s a good time to make some Easy Hungarian Arany Galuskam, grab a beverage to go with you treat and dive into the title for a bit of reading. 😉