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Chocolate Almond Monkey Bread
- Yield: 12 Servings
- Prep Time: 15 Mins.
- Cook Time: 30 Mins.
- When you have a group to feed, there’s no better dessert than monkey bread. To make yours even more special, add chopped Fisher® Sliced Almonds to the dough, and sprinkle Fisher® Sliced Almonds on top. It’s rich deliciousness, one pinch at a time!
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup butter melted, divided
- 2 tablespoons chopped Fisher® Chef’s Naturals Sliced Almonds
- 2 tubes (12 oz., each) refrigerated biscuit dough
- 1/2 cup Fisher® Chef’s Naturals Sliced Almonds
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips, regular or miniature
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Generously coat a 12-cup fluted cake pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Stir together sugar, cocoa and cinnamon in a small bowl. Combine ¼ cup sugar mixture with 1 Tbsp. melted butter and chopped almonds in another bowl
- Make an indentation into the center of each biscuit with your thumb. Press ½ tsp. of the butter and sugar mixture into the indentation and then fold the edges of the biscuit around the filling to form balls.
- Dip each ball in remaining butter; roll in reserved cocoa-sugar mixture.
- Sprinkle ½ of almonds into pan. Top with 1 layer of cocoa coated dough balls. Sprinkle with ½ of chocolate chips. Place remaining dough balls in prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining melted butter, almonds, chocolate chips and sugar mixture.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown and monkey bread begins to pull away from sides of pan. Cool 20 minutes in pan; invert onto serving plate. Serve lukewarm.
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