My Favorite Monkey Bread!

The monkey bread recipe I used to use has been demoted... I played around in the kitchen yesterday making a new version of monkey bread because I remembered last minute I was supposed to bring something to a play date I had... in an hour. (panic set in)


I used what I had on hand- sorry about measurements- again panic had set in...

Ingredients:

2 cans of jumbo butter biscuits
1 red apple peeled and chopped into little chunks
chopped pecans
a stick of butter
1/2 cup brown sugar packed (i did measure this)
vanilla extract
sugar
cinnamon
bundt pan

What you do is:

preheat the oven to 350
grease a bundt pan and set aside
pour brown sugar, stick of butter, and vanilla in a sauce pan
cook on low stirring occasionally
cut all biscuits into quarters
pour about 1 cup sugar and a good sized amount of cinnamon into a zip lock or a tupperware dish with a tight fitting lid.
though in 8 pieces of dough at a time and shake to coat.
then put in the bundt pan
sprinkle some pecans and apples in on top
drizzle a little bit of brown sugar mixture around
repeat this process until you run out of biscuits, pecans and apples.
take the remaining brown sugar mixture and pour over the top.
bake 35 minutes
let cool for 10 or minutes before putting on a plate

Home-made Kolaches

Ingredients:

1 c. warm milk
3 1/2 c. flour
1 egg
1 pkg. dry yeast
1/3 c. sugar
1/3 c. butter, melted
1 tsp. salt

Directions:

In a cup, put 1/3 cup warm milk and 1 teaspoon sugar, stir.

Add yeast and stir until dissolved. Let it stand and get bubbly.
Place flour in a large bowl.

Make a depression in the middle.

Add warm milk, eggs, sugar, melted butter, salt and yeast mixture at once.

Mix and knead until smooth.

Grease the dough ball, let rise again.

Divide into 7 portions, roll out and cover with favorite filling or sausage.

Roll up; be sure to seal ends and place on cookie sheet with seam side down.

Put 2 to a cookie sheet, let rise 10 minutes. Brush tops lightly with melted butter and bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 350 degrees. When golden brown remove from oven and place on paper towels to cool. Brush tops with butter while kolaches are still hot.