Cinnamon-Pecan Pull-Apart Bread: Simple, Sweet & Sticky

Did you wake today to a house rapidly filling with family? Or maybe you're hitting the road today? Over the river, and through the woods . . .

Are you in need of a quick & easy crowd-pleasing breakfast treat?

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I pinned The Jone Way's Sticky Bun Breakfast Ring (original recipe came from All Things Delicious) a year ago, then forgot all about it! Lucky for me, I did a pin-ventory last week (while avoiding the thing I was really supposed to be doing) and rediscovered it.
 
Well I made this ooey-gooey breakfast treat last weekend and . . . let's just say, there were only a few meager morsels left after my trio of super eaters finally pushed themselves away from the table.

Yum, yum, yum!

Cinnamon-Pecan Pull-Apart Bread

adapted from All Things Delicious

Ingredients

• cooking spray
• 2 small tubes refrigerator flaky grand biscuits
  I use "grands", cause more is always better when feeding my crew.
  I've made this with both buttermilk and flaky biscuits, and personally prefer the flaky. With buttermilk there was still a hint of biscuit-ness, while the flaky didn't seem biscuit-ish at all.
• 1/2 stick (4 Tbs) melted unsalted butter
• 1/2 C maple syrup
• 1/3 C packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 C roughly chopped pecans (optional)
  (You can do 1/4 C pecans & 1/4 C walnuts, but I don't like walnuts, so I stick with pecans.)
  

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Spray tube or bundt pan with cooking spray. 
• Combine the melted butter and syrup in a small bowl and set aside. 
• In separate bowl, combine the brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts.
• Pour approximately 1/2 C of the syrup mixture into the bottom of the pan. Then sprinkle half of the sugar & nut mixture around.
• Fan biscuits around the pan, overlapping snugly.

• Sprinkle remaining brown sugar/nut mixture over biscuits, then pour remaining butter/syrup mixture over the top.

• Spray a piece of foil with cooking spray and lay over top of pan.
  This keeps the top from browning to much.
• Put bundt pan on cookie sheet (to insulate the bottom and prevent burning).
• Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes, rotating 1/2 way through cooking time.
• Remove foil 10 minutes before done baking to allow top to brown.
•  Remove from oven and let cool for a minute or two, but not much longer, or the cooling gooey goodness will start to stick to the pan.

•  Invert bread onto serving dish. Let bread cool another 2-3 minutes before serving, then let your family and friends rip into it.

I'm telling you, this was mega-delicious! It was hard to restrain ourselves . . . ok, there was no restraint, we four Weekses devoured it, there were only a few small sections left over for the next morning.

Enjoy! And have a very Merry!