Plated + Served: Shortcut Sticky Buns
Mama loves sticky buns. Love ‘em, love ‘em, love ‘em.
But making homemade sticky buns can take hours and hours. And I know you’d rather be doing other things with those hours and hours.
So here’s a sticky bun recipe that doesn’t take forever to make, but still has all the cinnamon gooeyness you love. I used raisins because Miss Picky-Nicky has that nut-allergy thing, but pecans taste wonderful in this recipe.
Hey! Here’s an idea: leave this recipe lying around some place where someone (the kids? Your partner? Dad?) will find it and make it for you this weekend! Then you can start doing whatever it is you want to do… for hours and hours.
I mean… it is Mother’s Day, after all!
Shortcut Sticky Buns
prep: 20 minutes
bake: 18 minutes
you’ll need…
for the buns…
6 tablespoons butter, divided
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 package Grands® Refrigerated Biscuits
for the topping…
½ cup dark brown sugar
½ cup heavy cream
¼ cup honey
pinch of salt
1 cup raisins (or chopped nuts)
let’s get to it…
Move the oven rack to the center position. Heat the oven to 350°F. Spray a round 9-inch cake pan with nonstick spray; set aside.
Melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan over medium high heat. Stir in the brown sugar, cream, honey and salt. Bring to a boil; reduce the temperature to low and simmer 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
Pour ¾ of the mixture into the cake pan; top mixture with raisins.
Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a small shallow dish. Mix the sugar and cinnamon together in a shallow dish. Dip both sides of each biscuit first in the butter and then in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Place each sugar-cinnamon coated biscuit side-by-side in the round cake pan on top of the caramel sauce. (You will have to squeeze the 8th biscuit in, but it will fit.) Pour the remaining sauce on top.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from oven and cool 3 minutes. Place a large plate on top of cake pan. With oven mitts hold plate and cake pan together, flip cake pan over so that it is sitting on plate. Carefully remove cake pan. Let Shortcut Sticky Buns cool for 5 minutes before serving.
