The Best Monkey Bread Recipe - 5 Ingredients!!! (2024)

The best ever Monkey Bread recipe is simply a bundt pan full of sweet, gooey, and cinnamon-coated bites that are made with pre-packaged canned biscuit dough (in a tube) and baked to perfection. Serve for breakfast, brunch, or dessert! This pull-apart style recipe is super easy to prepare and your guests will beg for the recipe.

What is Monkey Bread

First of all, it is a delicious dessert that is super easy to make. Second, it is refrigerated canned biscuits cut into pieces and coated with granulated sugar and cinnamon. Those pieces are placed in a bundt pan and covered in a delicious brown sugar and buttery sauce and baked until it is ooey-gooey amazing! It is served as a pull-apart bread typically for a dessert, breakfast or brunch.

Why We Love This Monkey Bread Recipe:

• Monkey Bread is a super easy recipe to make and is perfect for experienced and not-so experienced bakers! It is a fail-proof recipe! Almost impossible to mess up and not be delicious!
• Only required 4 ingredients and about 5-10 minutes of prep time.
• This is a great recipe to make with the kids!
• Easy to make-ahead. You can prepare this the night before and just put it in the refrigertor overnight. Just be sure to cover it with plastic wrap. When you are ready to bake it, just pop it in the oven.
• Uses canned biscuits. This is key to making it easy! Some recipes make the dough from scratch, but we love time savers and this one is a no-brainer!

Ingredients

• 1¼cupsugar
• 1tbspcinnamon
• 1cupbutter
• 2canssouthern style buttermilk biscuits(16 biscuits in the can)

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How to Make Monkey Bread

1. Spray a bundt pan with cooking spray and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Pour cinnamon and sugar into a plastic storage bag.
   
3. Cut each biscuit into 4ths (quartered).
   
4. Place the biscuits pieces into the sugar mixture and shake until well coated.
   TIP: This is a great step if you are cooking this with your kids. Let them shake the bag up (it really can’t go wrong, unless the ziplock isn’t totally zipped…then you may have a problem!)
   
5. Place dough ball pieces into bundt pan (fluted tube pan).
   
6. Melt the butter in the microwave.
7. Pour the remaining sugar mixture from the bag into the butter and stir with a whisk until the sugar starts to melt.
   
8. Pour over the biscuits. Shake the pan to make sure the butter gets down in between all of the biscuits.
   
9. Bake for 30-35 minutes at 350°F.
   TIP: You want the internal temperature to reach 190 degrees. You can use a digital thermometer to test it if you desire. Just be careful to watch it and don’t let it get to browned. If it is browning too quickly, just cover it with losely with foil.
   
10. Let sit on the counter for a few minutes and flip over onto a serving platter.
    TIP: Once it is done cooking, set aside to cool for about 10 minutes. Once cool enough to handle, place a plate on top of it and flip it over. The bread should slide right out.
    

TIP: I recommend eating the easy monkey bread hot out of the oven with a nice cup of coffee to go with it. The crunchy glaze on the outside and the warm, fluffy, melt in your mouth deliciousness on the inside will make your taste buds do a happy dance. However, it can be served warm or at room temperature as well.

Storage

Monkey bread is best served the same day. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Be sure to store covered. Reheat in the oven at 250 degrees for about 5 minutes.

Tips for THE BEST Monkey Bread

• The key to a good monkey bread recipe is the caramel sauce to biscuit to cinnamon sugar ratio. I think I found the perfect combination here (after many delicious attempts!)
• It is also really important to coat each piece of the biscuit completely with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. I have found the best (and fastest) way to do this is to put the biscuit and the cinnamon and sugar in a ziplock bag and shake it up until everything is coated.
• This is a great step if you are cooking this with your kids. Let them shake the bag up (it really can’t go wrong, unless the ziplock isn’t totally zipped…then you may have a problem!)
• You want to make sure you really properly prepare the bundt pan. Spray that baby up with your non-stick cooking spray! When you bake it, all ovens cook differently, so you want to make sure the bread is just starting to turn golden brown on top.
• Wait a few minutes before enjoying this finger food, because it will be hot! But don’t wait too long. It is best when it is warm and melty and gooey.

Frequently Asked Questions

More Ways to Make Monkey Bread

• Instant Pot Monkey Bread – did you know you could make it in the Instant Pot?!
• Chocolate-Filled Monkey Bread with Sprinkles – Even better filled with chocolate!
• Orange Monkey Bread – a little citrus flavor with chocolate!

More Cinnamon-Sugar Desserts

Cinnamon Sugar Cheesecake Bars |Cinnamon Roll Cookies |Cinnamon Roll Casserole (French Toast Bake) |Mini Cornbread Muffins with Cinnamon Butter |French Toast Mug Recipe |Nutella French Toast Roll-Ups

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED June 2018