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Chive & Cheddar Jalapeno Pull-Apart Ring

Ingredients

  • 2 cans jumbo biscuits
  • 1 tub chive and onion cream cheese spread
  • 1 jalapeno or ¼ cup jarred jalapenos
  • 1 stick butter
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon drive cilantro leaves or ¼ cup fresh leaves chopped
  • 2 cups (16 oz.) Velveeta Cheddar Shreds

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350.
  • De-seed one jalapeno by removing the top and then the seeds through the middle.
  • Very thinly slice the jalapenos using a mandolin.
  • If you are using jarred jalapenos instead, pull them out of the jar and lay on a paper towel to dry off some of the liquid.
  • Melt the stick of butter in a measuring cup with a pour spout.
  • Thoroughly spray the insides of a bundt pan to release the biscuits once cooked.
  • Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with a little garlic powder and dried cilantro leaves. Drop 3-4 slides of jalapeno around in the bottom. (Remember, whatever is in the bottom of the pan, will be on top of the bundt when it is inverted.)
  • Separate and cut each biscuit into quarters, making a pile to keep the quarters from each can separate.
  • Take one piece of biscuit in your hands. Gently press and pull it to make a round or square shape that you can fold over.
  • Using a child’s spoon or ½ teaspoon measuring cup, scoop a small amount of cream cheese into the center of the biscuit.
  • Use your finger to fold the biscuit up around the cream cheese and pinch it together.
  • Drop the biscuit pieces in the bottom of the bundt pan.
  • Repeat with one can worth of biscuit pieces, 32 pieces total. Dropping sporadically around the bundt pan to make one layer.
  • You can watch and drop a few jalapenos or cilantro in between the biscuits, or wait until you have half of them in the pan.
  • Stir the garlic powder into the melted butter.
  • Pour half of the melted butter over the biscuit pieces.
  • Sprinkle with half of the jalapenos and half of the cheddar shreds. If you want to use cilantro, this is a great place to sprinkle in a little through the middle layer.
  • Repeat these steps with the remaining biscuit pieces.
  • Stir the garlic powder and butter again and pour over the biscuit pieces.
  • Add the jalapeno pieces and the rest of the cheddar shreds.
  • Cover and bake at 350 for 40 minutes. If your oven cooks hot, begin watching the bake at 35 minutes.
  • Let sit out of the oven for 5 minutes, then invert pull-aparts onto a platter or cake stand.
  • Serve while it's still warm. (But, I will say, it traveled nicely to an off-site brunch.)