Dutch Oven Cooking: Monkey Bread

"Good Food is always sweeter when shared with Good Friends"

-Boy Scout Trail

   One of the presents we got for our wedding was a Dutch Oven. Now I've always wanted one and thought they would be a wonderful, but I didn't want to have to haul one around all the time. Well after taking one on our recent camping trip to Goblin Valley and cooking most of our meals on it I've loved it. Now we have been trying different recipes and let me tell you this Monkey Bread is a wonderful dessert for after dinner. We made it on a recent family trip and everybody loved it!

What you need:

• 2 cans of Jumbo buttermilk biscuits
• 1 1/4 cup of brown sugar
• 1 1/4 cup of sugar
• 3ish tsbp of cinnamon 
• one stick of butter
• aluminium foil 
• cooking spray
• 1 gallon ziplock bag

   Throw the sugars and cinnamon in a bag. mix it all together. Open up the biscuit cans and tear each biscuit in four pieces. mix those pieces in the bag with the sugars. next take your foil to line your dutch oven spray it down with cooking spray. Then put in all the mixed up biscuit pieces. Melt the butter and pour over the top. Spread remaining sugar from bag over melted butter. Set it on the coals for about 20 minutes. We did a charcoal chimney worth and put about 2/3 on bottom and the rest on the lid. If anything I would put a few less on the bottom, but it still turned out alright.

   After 20 minutes check it to make sure they are done and not raw on the inside. You may have to sample one to be sure. you can make icing to put on top.

Very simple all you need to mix together is:

BUTTER (very important to use actual butter)

Milk

Powder Sugar

Vanilla 

   Pour it on top or dunk it in as you pull it apart to enjoy. Next Time I do this I want to use homemade biscuit dough so we will see how that compares.

   Like the quote at the top says it is always better to be around friends and family to share these good meals. I feel one of the ways to bring people together is through food. It's easy too, just throw on a couple extra burgers, make a little more stew, mash up a couple extra potatoes and invite someone over. It doesn't need to be fancy, it is a good excuse to share.

   I'm hoping to try out more recipes that bring people together. I've got a few but I'm happy to try any out that anyone has.