Slow Cooker Rueben Dip

Last weekend was the best.  After so many weekends of work and crazy,

I was finally, finally, FINALLY able to take a couple of days off and spend some much
needed quality time with my husband and my friends.
 

Good friends, good food, good times.

One friend visited from California.  Another WON A DANCE COMPETITION. 

That happened.  She's awesome.

Not only did she put on her dancing shoes and pull off a win,
she organized an Afterglow at our favorite local bar.

 With so much to celebrate, and the location making cocktails practically a guarantee,

she also convinced the owner to let us put together a little potluck.

 

And thus, we arrive dear friends, at the point of this rambling entry,

my contribution to the celebration was a reimagining of a classic deli sandwich.

Cream Cheese Stuffed Mini Monkey Bread

Have you ever had monkey bread?

It's usually made with canned biscuit dough, butter, and cinnamon sugar.

And it is delicious.

 

Bonus points if you make your own biscuit dough.  I did not.  I did change things up a little bit and started with prepared sweet roll dough, cream cheese, and cinnamon sugar, and I ended with something amazing.  And when you have a sweet, ooey, gooey, cream cheesy breakfast-ish pastry, what do you do next? 

 

Top it with more cream cheese in the form of a glaze.  Yup, I went there. And you'll be happy I did.

I have to be honest with you - this recipe is an absurd amount of work.  Delicious? Yes.  But very tedious and labor intensive.  They will be amazing, and everyone you share them with will be really impressed by your level of dedication and thoughtfulness.