pumpkin gorilla bread with soco toffee sauce
I was making Paula Deen's Gorilla Bread with a friend: Me: Wouldn't it be awesome if we put pumpkin inside with the cream cheese? My Friend: AND wouldn't it be awesome if we served it with the sauce from toffee pudding...?? Me: Oh!! AND wouldn't it be even MORE awesome if we put Southern Comfort in the sauce??? So here is our creation, born from Paula Deen's Gorilla Bread Recipe, and the Food Network's Toffee Sauce. :) Enjoy!
Blue Ribbon Recipe
Wow, your friends and family with this gorilla bread (aka monkey bread). Biscuits are stuffed with pumpkin and cream cheese. It's a fantastic flavor combination that adds tons of flavor to the treat. With the cinnamon, sugar, butter coating, the gorilla bread alone is quite tasty. The addition of toffee sauce, though, makes it even better. It's buttery and has a slight flavor of Southern Comfort. Altogether, it's a dreamy autumn dessert. Don't let the steps scare you. Seems like a lot, but it's easy to make.
Ingredients
- PUMPKIN GORILLA BREAD
- 1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 cans giant refrigerator biscuits (like Pillsbury Grands)
- 1 box cream cheese (regular 8 oz. sized brick)
- 1/2 cup pureed pumpkin (like Libby's)
- SOUTHERN COMFORT TOFFEE SAUCE
- 2 sticks butter (1 cup)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon Southern Comfort
How To Make pumpkin gorilla bread with soco toffee sauce
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Step 1Melt 1 stick of butter and 1 cup of brown sugar in a small pot over low heat. -
Step 2Stir together the white sugar and the cinnamon. Set aside.
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Step 3Open up the cream cheese and cut into 16 evenly sized cubes.
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Step 4Next, open up the cans of biscuits and flatten each biscuit to about 1/2 inch. Place one cube of cream cheese, a dollop of pumpkin, and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar in the center of each flattened biscuit.
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Step 5Now seal up each biscuit to make individual dumplings.
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Step 6Now, spray a Bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray. Pour 1/3 of the melted butter/brown sugar into the bottom of the Bundt pan.
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Step 7Next, place 1/2 of the pumpkin/cream cheese/biscuit dumplings into the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Then pour another 1/3 of the melted butter/brown sugar on top of the dumplings.
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Step 8Layer the rest of the pumpkin/cream cheese/biscuit dumplings.
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Step 9Then sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar. Then top with the rest of the melted butter/brown sugar.
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Step 10Bake in a 350-degree oven for 45 minutes.
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Step 11To make the SoCo Toffee Sauce, place all ingredients into a saucepan over medium heat. Stir, bring to a boil. Once it boils, turn the heat down to low. Continue cooking/stirring until it comes together and is smooth and velvety.
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Step 12Once the Pumpkin Gorilla Bread is baked, wait 5 minutes and invert onto a serving dish.
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Step 13Serve with warm SoCo Toffee Sauce. Be prepared to be asked to make this for every potluck moving forward. NOM NOM NOM
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