Monkey Toes!

Guest author: Carol O’Dell
Website: Carol O’Dell

Monkey Toes Recipe

2 cans of fluffy biscuit dough (Serves 4 people)
One cup of sugar
2-3 heaping spoons of cinnamon
(during this time of year, I do one spoon of cinnamon and one spoon of pumpkin spice mix)
½ stick of butter
Optional: nuts (walnuts or pecans are my family’s favorite) raisins and/or cranberries

Red gel icing

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

In a large mixing bowl, mix the spices and sugar together

Pop open the biscuit dough, and sprinkle a little of the sugar on the counter or a baking matt

Pinch off the dough and roll it on the sugar mix to look like the size of a toe

Plop it into the sugar/spice bowl

Keep it up until all the biscuit dough is used

Mix all the toes in the sugar/spice mix with your hands so it’s all covered well

Melt the butter in a mixing cup in the microwave

Pour a little on the bottom of a bundt cake pan (any pan will do, but this gives it a nice shape

Pick up the monkey toes and place them in the bundt pan

If you want to add the nuts, cranberries, or raisins, now is the time.

If there’s any sugar mixture left, sprinkle a little bit around the top

Pour the rest of the butter on top (I try to use as little butter as possible—but you may have to adjust the amount if you make a bigger or smaller batch)

Bake for about 12-15 minutes

Invert the monkey toes onto a nice serving platter.

Now for “fun” part—use the red gel icing to “paint” the monkey’s toe nails before serving.

The kids LOVE the toe nail part—and you can really make them look like little red painted toes
Great for Halloween!

Or…you can make this a holiday wreath and add some red and green Christmas candies for decoration.