Monkey Bread Muffins

This is a recipe I have been wanting to make for months!  I found biscuits on sale this weekend so I bought a can.  Here in California we don't really eat biscuits so when I popped open the can of Homestyle Pillsbury Grands, I was sure there was cheese it in.  (I think I have only eaten biscuits 3 time in my life....) I was really mad that I had bought the wrong kind.  Come to find out the orange specks was just butter, not cheese.  I think these biscuits could have been cut into smaller portions to have more dough balls in each muffin, but they were still amazing.  I was very impressed with how easy, quick, and delicious these were.   You could easily whip these together for breakfast, or they could be dessert too!  YUM!

Monkey Bread Muffins - Adapted from The Kitchenarian

Yield: 10 Muffins
Ingredients:
1 Teaspoons Cinnamon
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 (16 ounce) Can Refrigerated Biscuit Dough, 8 big biscuits, I used Pillsbury Grands! Homestyle
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
3 Tablespoons Butter, Unsalted
1 Teaspoons Water

1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla

1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375. Grease muffin cups of a standard muffin pan or fill with paper liners. 
2. Mix the white sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl and set aside. 
3. Cut each biscuit into quarters. Roll each piece in the cinnamon sugar and place three in each muffin cup. Continue until all 10 cups are full. Scatter the remaining dough pieces in the muffin pans. You will not have the same number of biscuit pieces in each muffin. 
4. In a saucepan, melt the brown sugar, butter and water until bubbly.  Add the vanilla and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.  Make sure the sugar has melted and the consistency is smooth. 
5. Spoon the brown sugar sauce over each muffin cup. I put about 1 teaspoon of sauce on each muffin. I reserved a small amount of this sauce to drizzle over the muffins when they came out of the oven. 
6. Bake for 10 to 2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before taking out of muffin pan. They will stay together better this way.
7. Spoon more sauce on the muffins while still hot.  
8. Enjoy hot, or microwave the muffin for 10 seconds to reheat!

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