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December 28, 2017

Monkey bread in a jar, Farmer’s casserole, Cinnamon French toast

By Melanie Behrens

These recipes are suggestions for a special breakfast.

Monkey bread in a jar
2 tubes refrigerated biscuit dough
1/2 C sugar
1 TBS cinnamon
1/2 C butter
purchased vanilla frosting

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Clean 8 small oven-safe mason jars. Spray each mason jar with non-stick cooking spray. Open tubes o...

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