Gorilla Bread
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Gorilla Bread
Description
The Gorilla Bread recipe combines refrigerated biscuit dough filled with cream cheese, rolled in cinnamon sugar, and arranged in a bundt pan in layers with chopped walnuts and a melted butter-brown sugar mixture. Baking it at 350 degrees for 45 minutes yields a bread that's sweet and soft on the inside with a caramelized coating outside. The cinnamon sugar and brown sugar butter give it a rich, sweet flavor, while the walnuts provide crunch and texture contrast. This bread is pulled apart by hand, making it informal and fun to eat.
The method involves melting butter with brown sugar to create a sticky glaze that both coats and seeps between the biscuit layers, enhancing the flavor and moistness. Placing cream cheese pieces inside each biscuit creates creamy pockets that contrast with the sugary exterior. The bundt pan shapes the bread into a ring, helping the heat circulate evenly.
Once baked, letting the bread cool slightly helps it hold its shape when flipped out onto a plate. This bread is suitable as a dessert or sweet snack and is best served warm to enjoy the soft, gooey texture combined with crunchy nuts.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar , packed
- 8 ounce cream cheese package
- 24 ounces Biscuits refrigerated
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts , coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a bundt pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Add the butter and brown sugar to a glass bowl to your microwave and melt in 30 second increments until fully melted, then stir well until combined.
- Cut your cream cheese into 20 pieces, spread your biscuits into flattened circles on a large cutting board, place a piece of cream cheese in each one and fold it closed over the cream cheese.
- Roll each closed biscuit in cinnamon and sugar and place it in the bundt pan.
- After ten biscuits, top the biscuits with half the nuts and half the butter mixture.
- Add the remaining biscuits, the remaining nuts and top with the remaining butter/brown sugar mixture.
- Top with any remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Let cool for 5 minutes before removing from bundt pan by placing cake stand or plate upside down over the bundt pan and flipping very carefully.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 14Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 461 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 461kcal | 23% |
| Carbohydrates | 49g | 16% |
| Protein | 6g | 12% |
| Fat | 28g | 43% |
| Saturated Fat | 9g | 45% |
| Cholesterol | 36mg | 12% |
| Sodium | 572mg | 24% |
| Potassium | 207mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 25g | 50% |
| Vitamin A | 420IU | 8% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 71mg | 7% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Overall Rating
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