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Pull-Apart Maple Pecan Sticky Buns

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  Prep: 15 mm. Total: 45 mm.

Try this quick and easy recipe that uses the no-fuss pre-made dough for a buttermilk biscuits. A great day starter or something to serve your friends without getting flour all over yourself!
   
  3/4 cup pecans, chopped
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, divided
1/3 cup maple-flavored or pancake syrup
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 cans (12 oz. each) refrigerated flaky buttermilk biscuits
1 pkg (8 oz.) cream cheese, cut into 20 cubes

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Spray a 12-cup fluted tube pan or a 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray.
Sprinkle the pecans on bottom of prepared pan and set aside.
Melt 2 tbsp. of butter in a small microwaveable bowl.
Add the syrup and stir until well blended.
Drizzle the butter-syrup mixture over pecans in pan and set aside.

Melt the remaining 6 tbsp. butter and set aside.
Mix the sugar and cinnamon in shallow dish and set aside.
Separate the dough into 20 biscuits.
Press each slightly to 1/4-inch thick biscuit circle.
Roll a cream cheese cube in cinnamon sugar mixture until evenly coated on all sides.
Place 1 cream cheese cube in the center of each biscuit circle.
Gather up sides of dough to enclose filling.
Press the edges of dough together to seal.
Roll into a ball.
Dip top of each ball into remaining butter, then into cinnamon sugar.

Arrange half of the balls, cinnamon sugar-sides up, in the prepared pan.
Repeat with the remaining balls to form a second layer.
Drizzle with any remaining butter.
Sprinkle with any remaining cinnamon sugar.

Bake for 30 min. or until golden brown.
Cool for 1 min. in the pan.
When cool to touch, invert the baking pan onto serving platter.
Scrape any remaining pecans left in pan and spoon over buns.
Serve warm.

Serves 20.

 
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