From Fab to Flab – yep, you read that right.
Every once in a while (or, if you’re like me lately, every few days) a time comes in a person’s life when splurging is simply the requirement of the day. Your day’s splurge might be thanks to the blues, a celebration, hormones, boredom, entertaining, or any number of worthy (or unworthy) reasons…. but if you’re going to do it, you wanna do it up RIGHT.
Periodically, I happen upon a splurge so good that I want to share it here, but then I think to myself: “Self, this is not a healthy recipe! What will all the readers who look to you as a good example of fitness and dietsavvy think?” But after a few recent splurges too-good-to-withhold, I have decided that from time to time, I’ll share a favorite naughty recipe with y’all – because you deserve it! I mean, why should you suffer because of my guilt? It’s just too delicious to be nutritious!
To kick it off – my newest obsession….
MONKEY BREAD
This melty, gooey, bready goodness is super easy to make and packs a major punch on a breakfast buffet or dessert platter. But beware, this stuff is mad addictive, and you should probably cover your lap with a napkin – both because this stuff is so ooooeygooey and drippydroppy, and to also hide the oft-embarrassing foodboner you’re sure to pop when enjoying it!
Ingredients:
- 4 cans refrigerated biscuits (I prefer the flakey kind)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
Pre-heat oven to 350. Pull your biscuits apart and rip into smaller pieces (roughly 4 per biscuit). Try not to eat too much of the raw biscuit dough, like I always do! Mix your biscuit bits with thecinnamon and white sugar and pack into a buttered bundt pan. In the meantime, heat the brown sugar and butter together until melted, and pour over the top of the biscuit mix in the pan. Bake for about 45 minutes, let cool, and invert onto plate. Enjoy!
This shiz is too yummy to not try! You can easily make smaller batches, using a loaf pan and only 1 can of biscuits and a shorter cook time. Just eyeball the cinnamon, sugar, and butter amounts. Its not a perfect science, if you like it more or less sweet/gooey, do it up to your tastes!
So, there you have it, your first taste of temptation. Its eeeeevil, like fru-its of the dev-il! But, oh so mouthwateringly irresistible!
What’s your favorite food splurge?
Oh MY goodness… this looks absolutely amazing!! My favorite thing to splurge changes all the time… right now, it's the tomatoless corn salsa from Trader Joe's with Pita Chips (it just happens to not be sweets right now haha though don't you be fooled, it's madly addictive). Also, yellow cake cupcakes and ooooo… frosting
i seriously o.d.'ed on monkey bread a couple months back. that stuff is AMAZING. so excited that someone else has discovered its awesomeness.
My favorite food splurge is tiramisu!I try not to have more than a couple times a year.
My favorite is tiramisu, I can't get enough of it!
I love your blog. I linked to it on mine
For the non-Americans among us, can you clarify the can of biscuits thing? What does that mean? Is it cookie dough? In a can? In the fridge?! *so confused*
MMM I tried monkey bread when I was thirteen years old and was never able to try the recipe out. FINALLY. I am most definitely going to be trying this out.
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omg, my mama makes this only when i beg her! it's so good even the next day when u heat it in the microwave! -Candace
BAB you are pure evil with your sugary goodness recipes all over your blog!
My splurge is rarely sugar – usually french fries or good cheese pizza. Sometime, though, a Red Velvet cupcake (with cream cheese frosting) is just too much for me to resist.
Looks soooo yummy! Mine is buttercream frosting
yep no cake necessary.
I recently made monkey bread for my hubby… (I am not to have sugar) I totally blew it after the first little sample! So friggin good!! I ate most of it myself- a worthwile splurge- your recipe is diff I must try it!
ENJOY!
FYI – Wal-Mart has a version of this in their freezer section. You nuke it for a ridiculously short time and it's FABULOUS. My mom and I use to make Monkey Bread from scratch when I was a kid. The Wal-Mart stuff is just as good. No kidding.
wow, that looks totally tasty, but couldn't you make 1/4 of it in a loaf pan instead of making SO MUCH junkfood all at once?
Yeah … I am not going to try that recipe. If I try it, I'll eat it. All. At once. That's just my lack of self control.
HECK. YES. monkey bread is my perfect splurge. Basically any variation of the cinnamon/sugar/dough combination is enough to get me salivating but monkey bread takes the cake, no pun intended.
That looks so yummy. I just went and got lunch and saw a bunt cake similar to how this cake looks. Ohh, I would be in big trouble if I made this. Your blog is just too much fun. Oh, and I live in Southern CA too. Such a great place to live!
omg amazing! i do have a foodboner lol. i love you but also kind of hate you because i'm making this tomorrow and i'm sure i'll eat the whole thing.
I made this for the hubby Saturday. We found something good to do while we waited for it to cool.
Thanks!
Ooh, this looks so yummy!! I'm going to try it!! Love your blog, BTW. You are too funny!
I make that stuff, but I put brown sugar-glazed toasted pecans in the pan first, so when you pop it out the pecans are on the top. It's so, so so so good.
Omg I make monkey bread all the time for my family! My cousins devour that stuff so fast you'd swear they had superhuman food-inhalation abilities. I long for it on occasion…. in other words every flipping day.