Monkey bread goes tropical in this easy take made with biscuits and pineapple.
Bake-Off® Contest 47, 2014
Jane McMillen
Winter Garden, Florida
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1 1/4
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cups sugar
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3
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tablespoons finely chopped macadamia nuts
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1
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can Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Homestyle refrigerated southern style biscuits (8 biscuits)
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1/3
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cup butter, melted
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3
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oz cream cheese, softened (from 8-oz package)
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1
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to 2 tablespoons pineapple juice
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1/2
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teaspoon Watkins™ Coconut Extract
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1
Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 10-inch fluted tube pan with Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray. In 9-inch pie plate, mix 1 cup of the sugar and the macadamia nuts; set aside.
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2
Separate dough into 8 biscuits. Cut each biscuit in half. Dip both sides of biscuit halves into melted butter; roll in sugar mixture to coat all sides. Place cut sides up in bottom of fluted tube pan. Sprinkle any remaining sugar mixture over biscuit halves.
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3
Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; turn ring upside down onto serving plate; cool an additional 5 minutes.
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4
Meanwhile, in small bowl, beat cream cheese and remaining 1/4 cup sugar with electric mixer on medium speed 30 to 45 seconds or until smooth. Beat in 1 tablespoon of the pineapple juice and the coconut extract; add additional pineapple juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over hot pull-apart ring. Serve warm.
NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 420
- Calories from Fat
- 170
% Daily Value
- Total Fat
- 19g
- 30%
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- Saturated Fat
- 10g
- 49%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 11%
- Sodium
- 570mg
- 24%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 57g
- 19%
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- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 36g
- Protein
- 4g
- Vitamin A
- 8%
- 8%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
4
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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