I’ve been causeing this to be recipe for, gulp, over 35 years. (It stuns me that I’m old enough to possess made a recipe for the long!) It is a version of the recipe distributed to me by my college friend, Penny. She first got it from her mother. So, if there has been a recipe that’s tried-and-true, it’s that one.
This is baked in a number of forms of pans, but I’ve found a 9×13 pan leads to probably the most evenly cooked, easy-to-serve sticky buns. The initial recipe was manufactured in a bundt pan–some would call it monkey bread this way. I used a bundt pan for most years–it’s pretty and festive this way. Either will continue to work, but I would recommend a 9×13 pan if you are feeding a crowd–it’s easier to serve, and every piece is equally good and evenly cooked.
Speed scratch convenience. Speed scratch cooking is once you combine an excellent quality prepared food with fresh ingredients to help make the recipe easier and faster to get ready. This recipe uses frozen bread dough. Perhaps you can make your personal bread dough from scratch, in the event that’s your thing. But honestly, area of the beauty of the recipe is that you focus on ready-made frozen bread dough and end up getting a thing that is gooey and delicious and tastes enjoy it is totally created from scratch.
Make-ahead convenience. That is one of the better reasons for having this recipe. It could be assembled the night time before, overlooked to go up overnight, and baked for breakfast very first thing each day. I’ve also found that I can ensure it is one to two 2 days ahead and allow it do the rising In the fridge. That has been a fresh concept for me–I thought that bread dough needed warmth to be able to rise. Not. It needs additional time to rise within the fridge, but rise it can! I absolutely love having the ability to get this to well before when I’ll bake it. There is absolutely no preparation or stress that morning. It’s ideal for serving to overnight guests, at brunches, and through the holidays. Inside our family, we’ve had these sticky buns every Christmas morning along with other special occasions for, gulp, over 35 years.
Impress the heck from the guests. I’m always a little taken aback from the raves I get from guests once i serve this. It looks hard, and tastes enjoy it will need to have taken quite a while to create. So, they’re impressed. ONCE I admit how easy it really is, everyone wants the recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 2 pounds frozen bread dough — 24 Rhodes (or similar) frozen dough dinner rolls; or 2 1-lb loaves, partially thawed for 1/2 hour and each loaf cut into 12 even pieces
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1/8 cup cinnamon
- 3/4 cup butter, melted
Directions
Generously butter a 9×13 baking glass or metal pan. Sprinkle nuts evenly in bottom of pan. Combine sugar and cinnamon in small bowl. Melt butter in separate bowl. Dip each roll or dough piece in butter, then in sugar mixture. Place dipped dough in pan in even rows. Mix remaining butter and sugar mixture; distribute evenly over the tops of the dough. Cover with plastic wrap that is coated with cooking spray. Let rise until doubled* and bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes, until browned and done in center. (Cover loosely with sheet of foil in last 10-15 minutes, if browning too quickly.)
DONENESS TIP: For extra insurance that the center sticky buns are cooked completely, insert an instant-read thermometer half way down a center bun. The internal temperature should be 190-200°.
Remove from oven, let cool in pan for 5 minutes and invert onto serving platter. Serve warm.
*MAKE AHEAD RISING METHODS (times may vary depending on the temperature of your house)
- Assemble the night before, leave out to rise overnight (approx. 8 hours), and bake first thing in the morning.
- Assemble 20-24 hours in advance, put in the fridge to partially rise. The next day, remove from fridge and allow to rise at room temperature for 2-3 hours before baking.
- Assemble 44-48 hours in advance, put in the fridge to rise. Remove from fridge and warm to room temperature for 30 minutes before baking.
- FREEZER OPTION. Assemble pan, cover and freeze for up to a month in advance. Remove from freezer before you go to bed and let them rise overnight–ready to bake the next morning.
FOR A SMALLER BATCH. Cut all of the ingredients in half to make 12 sticky buns instead of 24. Assemble 12 sticky buns in an 8×8 baking dish, 9″ deep dish pie plate, or 9″ round cake pan (with 2″ tall sides). Reduce the baking time by 5 minutes.
