Pull Apart Maple Pecan Sticky Buns

I made these for breakfast this morning and they were great!  Perfect with a hot cup of coffee :)





Here's the recipe:

3/4 c. Planters Chopped Pecans

1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, divided

1/3 c. maple-flavored or pancake syrup

1/2 c. 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 oven to 400 degrees.  Spray 12-cup fluted pan or 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray.  Sprinkle pecans evenly on bottom of prepared pan; set aside.  Melt 2 Tbsp. of the butter in a small microwaveable bowl.  Add syrup; stir until well blended.  Drizzle over pecans in pan; set aside.

Melt remaining 6 Tbsp. butter; set aside.  Mix sugar and cinnamon in a shallow dish; set aside.  Separate dough into 20 biscuits; press each slightly to 1/4" thickness.  Roll cream cheese cubes in cinnamon sugar mixture until evenly coated on all sides.  Place 1 cream cheese cube in center of each biscuit circle; gather up sides of dough to enclose filling.  Press edges of dough together to seal; roll into a ball.  Dip top of each ball into remaining butter and then into cinnamon sugar.

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

Bake 30 min. or until golden brown.  Cool 1 min. in pan; invert onto serving platter.  Scrape any remaining pecans left in pan; spoon over buns.  Serve warm.