Name: Monkey Bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 2 cans refrigerator large biscuits (like Grands); 1 cup sugar; 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 1 stick butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; ½ cup heavy whipping cream; 1/4 teaspoon salt

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Monkey bread is a caramel pull-apart bread made with Grands biscuits, butter, sugar, and cinnamon then baked in a bundt cake pan for a gooey breakfast bread. This weekend I made the most amazing breakfast with my daughter. This pull-apart caramel monkey bread was caramelly goodness. The kind where you shouldn't be left unsupervised. The bonus was the princess of the house helped me make it. Very kid-friendly for helping and for eating!

My mom would always just call this Monkey Bread, but this bread isn't quite as sticky as what I remember my mom's monkey bread being when I was growing up.

Caramel Pull-Apart Bread Ingredients

Are you drooling now? As long as you have two cans of Grands biscuits, you will easily be able to make this monkey bread. Lots of sugar and butter naturally makes this all come together in a delicious caramelly way.

To make caramel pull-apart bread, gather these ingredients:

Pillsbury Grands refrigerator biscuits - These are the large biscuits that come 8 biscuits to a can.
Butter - Real butter is a staple in this recipe. No imitation of the real butter will work. Salted butter will work just fine.
Heavy whipping cream - Fat is flavor, so I go with the heavy whipping cream. However, half and half cream can also work in this monkey bread recipe.
Brown sugar - Light brown sugar is the go-to sugar for this recipe. However, if you have only dark brown sugar on hand, you can use that too.
White sugar - Simple white sugar is key for anything that is coated in cinnamon and sugar.
Cinnamon - Your favorite cinnamon is fine for this recipe.
Pinch of salt - Table salt will work just fine. Or sea salt works too.

How to Make Monkey Bread

So, this monkey bread recipe is the easiest thing to make. The hard part, waiting for them to bake. Start by grabbing two cans of the large biscuits. Then cut each piece of biscuit dough into quarters.

A kid can even do it with a pair of scissors! So, while my little helper was cutting biscuits, I started on the caramel sauce by melting one stick of butter in a small saucepan then add ½ cup of brown sugar and heavy whipping cream.

I am becoming obsessed with salted caramels, so of course, I tossed a little sea salt into the mixture.

By this time, the biscuits were all cut into quarters. We grabbed a gallon size Ziploc bag and poured 1 cup of sugar and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon into the bag.

We then put about half of the cut biscuits into the sugar and cinnamon, sealed the bag and shook it all up.

The quartered pieces of biscuit dough should be coated in the cinnamon and sugar.

Then grease a bundt pan and poured ⅓ of the caramel sauce I had made into the bottom of the pan. Next, transfer the biscuits from the cinnamon and sugar to the pan. We sprinkled a little of the sugar mixture over top of the biscuits and poured half of the remaining caramel sauce over the biscuits. Then repeat with the remaining biscuits and caramel sauce.

The biscuits will almost appear to be drowning in the caramel sauce. The monkey bread ready for the oven now. Bake the monkey bread at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Take it out of the oven and let it sit for 2-3 minutes before flipping onto a serving platter.

Caramel pull-apart monkey bread is divine. Leftovers even reheated quite nicely in the microwave.

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Monkey Bread

Monkey bread is a caramel pull-apart bread made with Grands biscuits, butter, sugar, and cinnamon then baked in a bundt cake pan for a gooey breakfast bread.

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Monkey Bread, Pull apart cinnamon bread

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Servings: servings

Calories: 580kcal

Author: Leah @ Beyer Beware

Ingredients

2 cans refrigerator large biscuits like Grands
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 stick butter
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup heavy whipping cream
¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Cut biscuits into quarters and set aside.
Pour sugar and cinnamon into a large Ziploc bag, add biscuits, and shake to coat. Set aside with cut biscuits.
In a small pan, melt butter, sugar, water, and salt together. When mixture begins to boil, remove from heat and pour ⅓ of sauce in the bottom of a greased bundt pan.
Put the half biscuits evenly over the sauce in the bundt pan.
Pour half of the remaining sauce over the biscuits. Shake the remaining biscuits in the sugar and cinnamon and place over the second layer of sauce. Finish by pouring the remaining sauce over top of the biscuits.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Let stand for 3 minutes before flipping onto a plate.

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A working mom of two very active teenagers. My husband and I gave up running the 80-cow dairy farm that also included a couple of hundred acres of corn and soybeans to both work to support the agricultural industry. We still have about 20 head of dairy heifers and cows to help my kids appreciate the effort it takes to raise livestock. I consider myself a foodie as I love cooking and experimenting with recipes. My family just wishes I would make the same thing twice. Find my other blog, FarmWifeDrinks.com for all things cocktails.