Less sugar, butter instead of margarine, and refrigerated pizza dough instead of biscuits - but it still adds up to a delicious cinnamon-y treat! You'll love this healthier monkey bread.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 0.33333 cup
- ground cinnamon: 2 tsp
- ounces refrigerated whole wheat pizza dough: 36 piece
- walnuts: 0.5 cup (chopped, optional)
- raisins: 0.5 cup (optional)
- butter: 6 Tbsp
- packed brown sugar: 1 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
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Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a plastic bag. Cut pizza dough into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Shake 6 to 8 pieces of dough in the sugar-cinnamon mix. Arrange pieces in bottom of prepared pan. Continue until all dough pieces are coated and placed in pan. Arrange nuts and raisins in and among dough pieces.
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Melt butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over dough; let rise for 30 minutes.
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Bake in preheated oven until bread is golden brown, about 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Pull apart pieces of bread to eat.
