turquoise Recipe ~ Maple Bacon Monkey Bread

Sweet and salty monkey bread with a delicious twist - bacon! This recipe was created from two existing recipes, with the idea courtesy of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Ingredients

• cooking spray
• 1 (12 ounce) package bacon
• ½ cup margarine
• ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 (16.3 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough, separated and cut into quarters

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat the inside of a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with cooking spray.
2. Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on paper towels; crumble and remove extra fat.
3. Melt margarine in a small saucepan over medium heat; stir in brown sugar and maple syrup. Bring mixture to a boil; cook and stir until mixture begins to foam, about 1 minute. Remove saucepan from heat.
4. Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a resealable plastic bag; add 6 to 8 biscuit pieces at a time and shake until well coated. Pour any remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture into brown sugar mixture. Place saucepan over medium heat and cook and stir until sugar dissolves, 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Sprinkle 1/4 the bacon pieces in the bottom of the tube pan; pour in about 1/4 the brown sugar mixture. Arrange 1 layer of biscuit pieces in the tube pan; sprinkle in 1/4 the bacon pieces. Drizzle about 1/4 the brown sugar mixture over the biscuit pieces. Continue layering until all the ingredients are used, ending with a drizzle of brown sugar mixture.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits are cooked through, about 35 minutes. Allow to cool in pan, 10 to 20 minutes; invert onto a serving plate.

Nutrition Facts

• calories373.7
• carbohydrateContent51.2 g
• cholesterolContent8.3 mg
• fatContent16.3 g
• fiberContent0.6 g
• proteinContent6.5 g
• saturatedFatContent3.9 g
• sodiumContent801.1 mg
• sugarContent29.5 g