Orange Breakfast Pull Apart Loaf with Cream Cheese-Orange Glaze
Orange Pull Apart Loaf is an easy breakfast or weekend brunch treat! Topped with a sweet and tangy cream cheese and orange glaze, it's ready to serve in under an hour.
Servings: 16 servings
Equipment
- 1 microplane zester
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons orange zest about 2 oranges, depending on size
- 2 cans refrigerated biscuits preferably Grands
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) melted
Cream Cheese-Orange Glaze
- 4 oz. cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar sifted
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°. In a bowl, combine the sugar and orange zest, until thoroughly combined. Separate biscuits and dip each biscuit in melted butter, then coat in the sugar mixture. Place biscuits standing up in a 9 x 5-inch or 10 x 5-inch loaf pan.
- Repeat until all of the biscuits are in the pan, squeezing in as many as will fit. If they don’t all fit save extra biscuits for another use. Place loaf pan on baking sheet to prevent any butter from bubbling out of pan onto oven.
- Bake for about 30-40 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown.
- Allow to cool 5 minutes in pan before removing.
- Combine softened cream cheese with powdered sugar, mixing until smooth, then add orange juice. Drizzle over loaf while biscuits are warm.
- Cover and refrigerate any leftovers.
Notes
- To fit all 16 Grands biscuits, use a 10 x 5-inch loaf pan.
- This recipe is very forgiving, use fewer biscuits for a smaller loaf pan or halve the recipe and use just one can of biscuits.
- You can also separate your biscuit layers before dipping in butter and rolling in your sugar mixture for smaller ‘pull apart’ servings.
- Substitute any canned biscuits for Grands if that’s what you have; they won’t bake up as tall as Grands but will be just as good.
- You can also make this in a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan and serve as a breakfast ring.
- You may have some sugar and melted butter left over. You can drizzle remaining sugar and butter over top of biscuits before baking, but make sure you place your loaf pan on a baking sheet to prevent butter from bubbling over top of pan to save on clean up.
- When zesting oranges (as with any citrus) use only colored peel not the white pith which is bitter.