Recipe Wednesday - The Pioneer Woman's Monkey Muffins

Monkey Bread is perhaps one of my favorite breakfast foods.  It's so yummy and sweet and gooey that I just eat it up!  So the Christmas after we got married I decided I wanted a bundt cake pan so that I could make Monkey Bread.  Being the good Santa that Santa at our house is, he brought not only the pan but a mix for Monkey Bread from Williams-Sonoma.  So later in the winter I set out to make the Monkey Bread and I kid you not, I think it took me one entire Saturday to make it.  So time consuming!  Of course, super delicious when it was actually finished but that was a lot of work!

That experience is what made me giddy when The Pioneer Woman put up a recipe for Monkey Muffins.  Basically, it's a shortcut for Monkey Bread!  I planned to make them for the day after Christmas morning but I was sick so I finally made them New Years morning.  I made them after feeding Charlotte when she got up and they were ready right when we were ready to eat breakfast! Super easy and so, so, so good.  We ate the leftovers the next morning and they might have been even better because they had more time to soak up the sweetened, condensed goodness!  If you're a Monkey Bread fan you have to try Ree's adaptation!

PW Monkey Muffins
Servings: 12

Ingredients
Leftover Bread Dough (or Refrigerated Biscuit Dough, Cut Into Thirds)
Butter
Sugar
Ground Cinnamon
Sweetened, Condensed Milk

Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Add 1/2 teaspoon butter to muffin tins. Sprinkle in sugar and cinnamon.
Roll dough into walnut sized balls (or cut refrigerated biscuit dough into thirds). Place three into each muffin tin.
Top with 1/2 teaspoon butter. Sprinkle on more sugar and cinnamon.
Allow dough to rise, if applicable, or just go ahead and bake for 15 minutes, or until golden and bubbly.
Remove from oven and immediately drizzle plenty of sweetened condensed milk over the top of each one. Be generous! Allow rolls to sit for a little while to absorb sweet, sticky milk.
Scoop out with a spoon and serve to hungry humans.

My Notes:
- I used one can of flaky biscuit dough.  I ended up putting probably 4 or 5 smaller balls in each muffin place instead of just three.
- Once these have baked they come out of the muffin tins and stay together beautifully so if you wanted to serve them they would be easy to serve.