Maple Bacon Walnut Sticky Buns

With my husband away on a business trip, I woke up Saturday morning with the whole day to myself!  I thought, what can I do today??  I had some errands to run, but other than that my day was wide open!  So I decided to try a few new recipes.  Hopping on the bacon craze, I started the day making some Maple Bacon Walnut Sticky Buns for breakfast.  I got the idea from this blog post.

Ingredients

6 pieces of bacon
1/4 cup pancake syrup (or maple syrup)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 tube refrigerated Grands biscuits (8 count)
cinnamon

Directions

I started out by cooking the bacon in the microwave.  On a dinner sized plate, I placed 2 paper towels.  Then I laid out the bacon on the paper towels and then covered it with another paper towel.  I microwaved the bacon in 2 minute increments until it was crispy - about 6 minutes.  I then chopped the bacon into little, bite-sized pieces.

Then I moved on to the topping.  Mix the pancake syrup, brown sugar and chopped walnuts.  Add in the bacon bits.  Spray a muffin pan with cooking spray.  Divide the topping mixture into the 12 muffin spots. 

  

Open up the refrigerated Grands biscuit tube.  There are 8 biscuits in the tube.  I cut each biscuit into 3 pieces, for a total of 24 pieces.  Place 2 of the dough balls into each muffin spot and press down a little.  The biscuits will puff up a little, so make sure you leave some room.  Sprinkle the top with a little cinnamon.

Place in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes. When they turn slightly golden, remove from oven and invert the muffin tin onto a platter.  Replace any of the topping that might fall off immediately, while it is warm before it hardens.

The resulting sticky buns are more delicious than can be imagined.  I had to restrict myself to just 2 for my breakfast!  The slight bacon taste with the maple topping really works!  I wasn't sure how I would like it, but it was delicious!

If you are vegetarian, you could leave off the bacon.  It would then be a regular, maple walnut sticky bun - but would still taste great.