Looks Good: Monkey Bread

Uploaded to Flickr by slicedgeek on May 28, 2009.

According to the Food Timeline:

The first peoples to make sweet, buttery rolls with cinnamon were ancient Middle Eastern cooks. These recipes and spices traveled to Europe in the Middle Ages with crusaders, travelers, traders and explorers. German kuchen, French galette, Pennsylvania Dutch sticky buns, and monkey bread all descended from these old recipes. [In the United States] monkey bread became popular (by that name) in the 1980s, presumably because Nancy Reagan served them at the White House.

There are many theories about the origin of the name, one of which appeared in the New York Times in 2003:

Since monkeys are known for gleefully pulling at, well, everything, it makes sense that an audience-participation loaf should be called monkey bread. Formed of balls of dough and baked in a ring mold, monkey bread emerges as golden puffs that are irresistible to both hand and eye. The idea is that you pick it apart like a bunch of...that it's more fun than a barrel of...You get the idea.

Ingredients
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 sticks of butter
2-3 teaspoons cinnamon
3 cans of non-flaky buttermilk biscuits (or use homemade dough)

Go to The Pioneer Woman.com for instructions.