Gorilla Bread

Super Sweet!!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup white sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
1 stick butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 package cream cheese
2 cans refridgereated biscuits

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

I sprayed my bundt pan with a baking cooking spray (PAM.)

1. Mix the white sugar and cinnamon.

2. In a saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar together over low heat, stir well.

3. Cut the cream cheese into 16-20small squares. You will need one square per biscuit.

4. Once the biscuits are out of the tube, press them out a bit and sprinkle 1/2 tsp of cinnamon sugar mixture.

5.  Place a cream cheese square inthe middle of the biscuit.

6. Wrap the dough around the cream cheese into a ball. Place half of the prepared biscuits into the pan.

7. Sprinkle more of the cinnamon sugar on top; then add 1/2 of the melted butter and brown sugar topping.

8. Layer remaining half of prepared biscuits on top; add remainder of cinnamon sugar then top with remainder of melted butter and brown sugar mixture.

9. Bake for 30 minutes.

10. Let cool for several minutes, then pop out of bundt pan.

Bella and the Mini-Pie's

Warm strawberry mini-pie with vanilla ice cream

I purchased my BELLA mini-pie maker online through Macy's. I can't pass up a sale so I bought the Cake Pop maker as well. I'll demo that at another time. My sweet tooth can only take so much sugary goodness at one time!!

The pie maker was very easy to use! Just plug in and wait for the appliance to heat up, when the light turns green (approx 10 minutes) you are good to go.

The products I used were pretty basic: (no product pics at this time)

pie crusts from the refridgerated section of your grocery store

any filling you would like - I  used a strawberry pie filling.

flour, to keep the pastry shell from sticking to my hands, rolling pin and flat surface.

When I uncurled the pastry shell, i used my floured rolling pin to stretch it out a bit. The BELLA pie maker came with a round cut-out which made it very easy for me. The larger side was for the bottom, the smaller side was for the top. EASY!

Once I had my bottom rounds, I placed them in the heated pie maker. Don't burn yourself! BELLA also enclosed this handy-dandy pie mold that helps push the shell into the appliance. Again, EASY!

Once the shells are in place, I added my filling. MMMMM, strawberries! It askes for about 1/3 cup per pie.

I even got fancy with my second set, just for kicks!

I closed the top and let it go to town on my pies, about 12 minutes. Aint she pretty?

This is me peeking in at about 9-10 minutes.

YUM! YUM! YUM!