Buns: Maple Pecan Sticky Buns
Source of Recipe
Jessie Reardon
List of Ingredients
1 pkg (8 oz) Cream cheese cut into 20 cubes
2 cans (12oz) refrigerated flaky buttermilk biscuits
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup maple flavored or pancake syrup
½ cup butter divided
¾ cup chopped pecans
Recipe
Preheat oven to 400°F
Spray 12 cup fluted tube pan or10” tube pan with cooking spray.
Sprinkle pecans evenly on bottom of prepared pan; set aside. Melt 2 Tbs of the butter in small microwaveable bowl. Add syrup; stir until well blended. Drizzle over pecans in pan; set aside. Melt remaining butter; set aside.
Mix sugar & cinnamon in shallow dish; set aside.
Separate dough into 20 biscuits; press each slightly to ¼” thickness.
Roll cream cheese cubes in cinnamon sugar mixture until evenly coated on all sides.
Place 1 cream cheese cube in center of each biscuit circle; gather up sides of dough to enclose filling. Press edges of dough together to seal; roll into a ball. Dip top of each ball into remaining butter, then into cinnamon sugar.
Arrange half of the balls cinnamon sugar sides up in prepared pan.
Repeat with remaining balls to form a second layer. Drizzle with any remaining butter; sprinkle with any remaining cinnamon sugar.
Bake 20 min or until golden brown cool 1 min in pan; invert onto serving platter. Scrape any remaining pecans left in pan; spoon over buns. Serve warm.
Makes 20 servings