Don't monkey around with this recipe

One of my readers, sensing somehow that I didn't have enough recipes that contained a lot of sugar, recently sent this recipe to me.

While I have been trying to cut back on the sweets a bit in order to try and drop some weight, I couldn't resist this super-sweet treat.

Monkey Bread, which is sometimes called Bubble Loaf, is traditionally a breakfast treat, but as much as I like sweets, I can not eat something this sugary first thing in the morning. This, for me, is something to serve your guests who arrive late morning. It goes great with black coffee.

I searched and searched in cookbooks and on line trying to find out why it is called Monkey Bread. One source said it is because the finished product looks like a Monkey Puzzle tree. though I couldn't find a picture of the tree to see if that was true. A more likely explanation is that people gather around the treat and pull it apart with their hands and look like a troop of  monkeys while they're doing it.

Recipes for the towering bread first appeared in American women's magazines and community cookbooks in the 1950s. It is made with pieces of sweet yeast dough which are baked in a cake pan at high heat after first being individually covered in melted butter, cinnamon and sugar.

This version is for those of you who are not into making bread from scratch.

Easy Monkey Bread

1/3 cup of  sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of  cinnamon
2 sticks of  butter
4 cans of biscuits
3/4 cup of  sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

• Melt the first three ingredients and boil for 2 minutes.
• Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces. Roll each piece in last 2 ingredients.
• Layer in greased bundt pan. Pour boiled mixture over it.
• Bake at 350 degrees for half an hour.
• Cool in the pan for 15 minutes then turn out on plate and serve while it's still warm.

Vegetarian.