But, I have to say, this recipe is surprisingly good. It's not too sweet, and it does have some actual fruit in it (I cut it up and everything!), so we can pretend it's healthy. Onwards to the recipe!
Ingredients
For bread:
1 package Pillsbury Grands Southern Style Biscuits (8 biscuits)
4 tsp granulated sugar
1 1/2 - 2 tbsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp orange peel
1 1/2 medium apples, cored and thinly sliced
For bread sauce:
4 tbsp packed brown sugar
4 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp butter
For icing:
4 oz reduced-fat cream cheese (Neufchatel), softened
4 tsp orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp granulated sugar
Directions
1. Coat two 8x4x2-inch loaf pans with cooking spray; set aside. Cut biscuits in half crosswise. In a small bowl combine sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and orange peel. Roll biscuits in mixture to coat. Alternatively arrange biscuit halves and apple slices in prepared loaf pans. Note: 6 halves fit in each pan (so there will be 2 whole biscuits left over), at least the way I did it. The pattern goes: BaBaBaBaBaB, where B = biscuit and a = several apple slices. I think that a more "braided" arrangement in the pan would be more aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps cutting the biscuits into quarters might help with getting a better arrangement.
2. Preheat oven to 350F. While that heats, in a small saucepan combine brown sugar, orange juice, and butter for the bread sauce. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until boiling. Pour mixture over biscuits.Obviously half goes in each pan.
3. Bake about 25 minutes or until edges are golden and biscuits near center are done. The two biscuits not used in the bread can be cooked as well, but they only need 13-17 minutes, so take them out early, or put them in later. My bread took an additional two minutes to bake and I used a toothpick to check if they were still doughy.
4. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. While this is cooling, make the icing. In a small bowl, whisk together the melted cream cheese, orange juice, vanilla, and sugar. And by whisk, I mean use a spoon to stir it together. But make sure to add the liquid to the cream cheese carefully, as cream cheese can be temperamental (especially if you don't melt it enough. So melt the bitch! Melt the crap out of it!). Drizzle on the bread. Again, obviously half goes on each loaf. Drizzling the icing is difficult, as it isn't really a liquid consistency. I ended up just spooning globs onto the top and spreading it around so it evenly coated the whole top of the bread.
5. Eat!
Comments
Since making and assembling this didn't turn out to be that hard, I'm thinking that it could be made healthier by actually making the biscuit dough (I'm sure there's a healthy biscuit recipe out there somewhere).
LAST MADE: Tonight.
INJURIES: None. Unless you count slight hot hands from washing the pans after I was done using them...
RESULT: Delight!
FOR NEXT TIME: Try the braiding or some sort of layering method to get it more together. And make the biscuits my damn self!
Btw, I adapted the recipe from the one found here: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/apple-cinnamon-pull-apart-bread/
EDIT
I was actually able to use this handy-dandy program and it figured out some of the nutrition for me! Go internets! It's not actually too terribly bad for you. Mind, this recipe makes 12 servings. 1 serving nutrition is as follows:
Calories: 169
Carbs: 23
Fat: 8
Protein: 2
Sodium: 332
Sugar: 11
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