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Easy Monkey Bread Recipe

June 3, 2024

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Gooey, pull apart dough pieces are baked with a buttery sugar-cinnamon mixture to create this incredible monkey bread recipe.
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Table of Contents
  1. Why You’ll Love this Monkey Bread Easy Recipe
  2. Easy Monkey Bread Ingredients
  3. How to make Monkey Bread with Biscuits
  4. How to serve this Monkey Bread Easy Recipe
  5. How To Store Homemade Monkey Bread
  6. Monkey Bread Recipe with Biscuits FAQs
  7. More Recipes You’ll Love
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Have you ever had homemade monkey bread? Gooey dough pieces are baked with a buttery, sugar-cinnamon glaze, and the best part of all is that it only needs four simple ingredients.

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Indulge in the ultimate comfort food with our Best Monkey Bread Recipe, a beloved classic that promises to delight everyone at your breakfast or brunch table. Here at Spaceships and Laser Beams, we’ve dedicated ourselves to perfecting this recipe, drawing from years of culinary experience and a genuine passion for creating delicious dishes.

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Why You’ll Love this Monkey Bread Easy Recipe

Simple ingredients like a buttery cinnamon sugar mixture add that irresistible homemade touch to this quick and easy monkey bread recipe. With Grands Biscuits cutting prep time, this easy recipe is quick enough to fix for a special treat, brunch, or breakfast — even for those sleepy-heads that prefer to lounge under the covers until the last possible minute.

Easy Monkey Bread Ingredients

Monkey Bread raw ingredients that are labeled

You’ll need:

  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1¼ cups granulated sugar
  • 2 (16.3-ounce) cans of Southern-style buttermilk biscuits
  • 1 cup of butter

How to make Monkey Bread with Biscuits

STEP ONE: Preheat the oven to 350°F and spray the bottom of a 12-cup bundt pan with cooking spray really thoroughly.

PRO TIP:

It is really important that you spray the bottom of the bundt pan really, really well so that none of the deliciousness sticks to the pan.

STEP TWO: Pour cinnamon and sugar into a Ziploc plastic bag.

cinnamon and sugar in a plastic storage bag

STEP THREE: Remove biscuit dough from the package and cut each one into quarters.

biscuits cut into quarters on a wooden board

STEP FOUR: Place the biscuit pieces, 6 to 7 at a time, into the cinnamon-sugar mixture and shake until well-coated.

biscuits pieces placed into the cinnamon mixture bag

STEP FIVE: Place the dough pieces into the prepared pan.

biscuits pieces placed into a greased bundt pan

STEP SIX: In a large measuring cup, melt the butter in the microwave. Once melted and warm, pour the remainder of the cinnamon and sugar mixture into the melted butter and stir for 30 seconds until the sugar starts to melt.

PRO TIP:

You can even do the prep the night before. Do all the steps except the baking and then cover the pan of goodness with plastic wrap and refrigerate until you’re ready to put it in the oven.

cinnamon mixture placed into a measuring cup of melted butter

STEP SEVEN: Pour butter mixture over the biscuits. Shake the pan to make sure the butter gets down in between all of the biscuits.

butter mixture poured over the biscuits

PRO TIP:

Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to keep a close eye on your monkey bread as the suggested baking time approaches.

STEP EIGHT: Bake for 35 minutes in the preheated oven. Let sit on the counter for 10 minutes before flipping over onto a serving platter.

PRO TIP:

Place foil or a cookie sheet at the bottom of your oven to catch any boil over of the sugar/cinnamon mixture so you don’t end up with a mess at the bottom of your oven.

monkey bread baked in a cake pan

Easy Monkey Bread Recipe Substitutions

ADD-INS: When you arrange the layers of the balls of dough in the greased bundt pan, you can add a sprinkle of raisins, currants, sweetened dried cranberries, blueberries, or butterscotch chips. And don’t forget the nuts: pecans and walnuts seem to be the favorites!

TOPPING: After flipping the just-baked monkey bread ring over onto a plate, some like to top off the ring with a glaze of one cup of powdered sugar and two tablespoons of milk. It makes everything extra-sweet, but it does add an enticing shine and sparkle.

SUGAR: Brown sugar would also work instead of the white sugar in this delightful recipe.

How to serve this Monkey Bread Easy Recipe

This yummy monkey bread is a total game-changer for a breakfast treat. Serve it for a delicious brunch spread along with our sheet pan breakfast. Add coffee, tea, or a latte to drink. This fun recipe would be a great Christmas morning tradition to start. Or you could make it any old Saturday morning for a treat too!

For a great twist on this classic recipe, be sure to try my monkey bread made with cinnamon rolls or our Instant Pot Monkey Bread! 

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How To Store Homemade Monkey Bread

IN THE FRIDGE: This easy monkey bread tastes best served on the same day but can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 1 day and in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

IN THE FREEZER: This sweet treat can also be frozen for up to three months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating and serving.

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Monkey Bread Recipe with Biscuits FAQs

What is Monkey Bread?

Monkey bread, sometimes also called bubble bread, is a soft, sweet, sticky pastry that you can serve for breakfast, brunch, or dessert — or really anytime in between is a great time for this treat! It’s small pieces of soft dough balls sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, then baked in a bundt pan. There are lots of possibilities for flavor combinations and glazes, making it a delightful and versatile goody. 

What pans can you use for monkey bread?

You could make this pull-apart bread recipe in a cake pan, loaf pan, ramekins, or muffin tins. Just make sure to adjust your baking time depending on the size of the pan.

Can you make monkey bread ahead of time and reheat it?

This is a great recipe to make ahead of time. You can prepare the recipe up to the baking stage the night before and then pop it in the oven the next morning when you are ready to serve it.

What size bundt pan do I use for this recipe?

A standard-size, 12-cup bundt pan is what we used for this monkey bread.

What does monkey bread taste like?

Monkey bread is coated with cinnamon, sugar, and melted butter and tastes like the gooey center of a cinnamon roll.

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Monkey Bread Easy Recipe

5 from 18 votes
Gooey, pull apart dough pieces are baked with a buttery sugar-cinnamon mixture to create this incredible monkey bread recipe.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 10
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1¼ cups sugar
  • 2 containers Southern style buttermilk biscuits (16 biscuits in total) (two 16.3-ounce containers)
  • 1 cup butter, melted

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F and spray a 12-cup bundt pan with cooking spray really thoroughly.
  • Pour cinnamon and sugar into a plastic storage bag.
  • Remove biscuits from the package and cut each one into quarters.
  • Place the biscuits pieces, 6 to 7 at a time, into the cinnamon and sugar and shake until well coated.
  • Place biscuit pieces into a well greased bundt pan.
  • In a large measuring cup, melt the butter in the microwave. Once melted and warm, pour the remainder of the sugar mixture into the butter and stir for 30 seconds until the sugar starts to melt.
  • Pour over the biscuits. Shake the pan to make sure the butter gets down in between all of the biscuits.
  • Bake for 35 minutes in the preheated oven.
  • Let sit on the counter for 10 minutes before flipping over onto a serving plate.

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Notes

  • It is really important that you spray the bottom of the bundt pan really, really well so that none of the deliciousness sticks to the pan.
  • You can even do the prep the night before. Do all the steps except the baking and then cover the pan of goodness with plastic wrap and refrigerate until you’re ready to put it in the oven.
  • Place foil or a cookie sheet at the bottom of your oven to catch any boilover of the sugar/cinnamon mixture, so you don’t end up with a mess at the bottom of your oven.

Nutrition

Calories: 262kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 147mg | Potassium: 10mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 570IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 1mg
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  2. Hannah Griffin says

    5 stars
    I made this monkey bread for dessert, but was thinking it would probably be just as yummy for a breakfast!

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  4. Tina says

    5 stars
    Any refrigerator biscuits will work, I have even used refrigerator French Bread dough. The “Southern” part of the biscuits are literally just flecks of butter in the biscuit, and you are already putting butter on the monkey bread so you won’t miss it if it isn’t there. ENJOY!

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  7. Jennifer says

    Southern biscuits are just made with buttermilk and have come of butter in the dough. I make my dough from scratch. No one ever can tell the difference. For that matter, buttermilk is pricey so I often use 1% milk with lemon juice to get the buttermilk flavor.

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  12. Christy Spurlock says

    5 stars
    Can’t wait to make these soon. I’m going to try and make individual servings in my cupcake pan. Come on Saturday morning!!!

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  13. Tammy Hendrick says

    I use 4 small cans of cheap biscuits.i believe 8 per can. Aalso use brown sugar with butter to pour over top before baking. Make them almost every Sunday.

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  21. Gabe says

    5 stars
    What most people know as monkey bread today in the United States is actually the Hungarian dessert arany galuska (“golden dumpling”). Dating back to the 1880s in Hungarian literature, Hungarian immigrants brought this dish with them when they immigrated to America and began introducing it into the country’s food landscape when Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish bakeries began selling it in the mid-twentieth century.

    In 1972, a cookbook published by Betty Crocker included a recipe for arany galuska, which they referred to as “Hungarian Coffee Cake”. As it became more popular in America, arany galuska came to be confused with monkey bread in which the balls of dough are not dipped in cinnamon and sugar but only in butter. “Monkey bread” soon became the more common name for this Hungarian Jewish dessert.

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  29. CHARLETNEWTON says

    5 stars
    ON BEHALF OF MONKEY BREAD, IT’S THE BEST MONKEY BREAD I HAVE TASTED, FULL OF YUM, STRAIGHT DELICIOUS, W, THANK YOU, SINCERELY YOUR’S CHARLETNEWTON

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      • Sara says

        5 stars
        I have never made monkey bread before, but thought this looked easy enough. I was right it was super easy to make I followed the recipe and it came out of the pan without a problem when I flipped it. It looked beautiful and it tasted even better this will be the one I make every time!

    • Layne Kangas says

      Hi, Elena: This easy monkey bread tastes best served on the same day but can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 1 day and in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

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  36. Christy Thomas says

    I followed the instructions completely and when I went to flip it onto a plate, I had juice splatter. Once I took the pan off the whole bottom row of biscuits are soggy. Have no idea what happened.

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  37. Christy Thomas says

    I followed the instructions completely and when I went to flip it onto a plate, I had juice splatter. Once I took the pan off the whole bottom row of biscuits are soggy. Have no idea what happened.

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