Maple Bacon Monkey Bread

How to make Maple Bacon Monkey Bread Recipe - Perfect 180! Anything Bacon Category, 2013 Rock’n Freedom State BBQ Competition Gettin’ Basted BBQ Team from Brad Leighninger

Serves: 6

Ingredients:
24 frozen yeast dough balls, thawed (homemade is fine if you are feeling up to it)
1/2 pound bacon, cooked and diced
1 cup chopped pecans
1 stick of melted butter

Dust for Dough:
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Sauce:
6 tbsp melted butter
6 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup

Method:
Generously butter a Bundt pan.

Mix together sauce ingredients.

Add half of sauce to bottom of pan.

Top with half of bacon and half of nuts.

Roll 12 balls of dough in melted butter, then roll in dust.

Add to Bundt pan.

Pour the rest of the sauce over the top and add the remaining bacon and pecans.

Roll the final 12 balls in butter and dust.

Cover and set on the counter to rise until doubled in size, about 2 hours.

Uncover and bake in a 350 degree F oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Let set on a cooling rack for 20 minutes before turning out upside down onto a serving platter.