Monkey Bread

We had a much needed girls weekend this past weekend and it was a blast!!  Sunday morning we all needed a little pick me up so I made everyone monkey bread.  This is a recipe from a good family friend of ours, Pat.  It is so simple and so delicious with all that gooey cinnamon topping!


Ingredients:

3 tubes biscuits
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
12 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar


Steps:
Spray a bundt pan and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Cut up your biscuits into quarters and toss into a bag of the sugar and 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon.  Shake them up to coat all the biscuits.  Place all the biscuits evenly around the pan.  Melt the butter, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and brown sugar until completely dissolved.  Boil 2 to 3 minutes.  Pour the melted mixture over the biscuits. 


Bake for 25 minutes.  Place a cookie sheet over the opening of the bundt pan.  Carefully flip the two over so the monkey bread falls onto the cookie sheet.  Enjoy!

Reese's Surprise Cheesecake

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!  Every year we go over to some friends' house to watch the game, and more importantly the commercials and halftime show!  This year I decided to make mini cheesecakes with a Reese's surprise at the bottom.  These are very simple and absolutely delicious!!


Ingredients:

12 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Jello No Bake Cheesecake Mix
1 1/2 C cold milk
Mini chocolate chips


Steps:
Line your muffin tin with cupcake liners.  Place one unwrapped Reese's in each liner.  Mix up your cheesecake mix according to the instructions on the box.  Fill all your cupcake liners.  There is a bag of graham cracker crust mix in the Jello box.  You use that as a topping on each individual cheesecake.  Sprinkle graham cracker on top followed by mini chocolate chips.  Put in the fridge for at least an hour before serving. 


Have fun watching people's faces as they get to the surprise at the bottom.  Enjoy!

Sweet Bacon Green Beans

These.  Are.  Amazing!!  Whenever I make these I just keep going back up for more.  I can't help myself!  The sweetness of the brown sugar and the baconeyness of the bacon make the perfect combination.  I just made these for a potluck at church and they were all gone.  The perfect side for any potluck, holiday, or Tuesday night dinner!
 


Ingredients:

5 cans of green beans, drained (fresh, canned, or frozen will all work)
1 package of bacon
1/4 C butter
1/4 C brown sugar




Steps:
Fry your bacon however you do it best.  Don't get it too crispy though.  Chop it up into bite sized pieces.


Melt your butter and brown sugar in a medium saucepan until the brown sugar dissolves completely.  Add in the chopped up bacon and coat evenly. 


Pour mixture over your green beans and enjoy!