How To Make Monkey Bread

Monkey Bread can be made from scratch where you mix up your own biscuit recipe or homemade yeast bread. Or...you can quicken things up quite a bit by using canned biscuits. Of course, homemade would be better in flavor and texture...but with little ones you can make this a fun cooking project if you let them pull the biscuits apart and dip each one in the butter mixture and plop them in the pan.

Parents should handle pouring the hot mixture over the monkey bread just before baking and of course the removal from the oven.

The kids won't mind waiting. They will love eating the monkey bread they helped make.

Quick Canned Monkey Bread Recipes

Sticky Monkey Bread I

Stir together:

  • 3/4 tsp. cinnamon

  • 2/3 c. sugar

  • 4 cans biscuits,

  • Cut each biscuit into fourths.

  • Roll biscuit pieces in cinnamon sugar mixture.

  • Grease bundt pan

  • Sprinkle bottom with 1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts.

  • Alternately lay biscuits and nuts in pan.

  • Top with monkey bread topping below.

  • Monkey Bread Topping

  • 1 1/2 sticks of butter

  • 1 tsp. cinnamon

  • 1 c. brown sugar

Melt butter, cinnamon and brown sugar. Pour over biscuits. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan.

Turn upside down onto serving plate. Pull off chunks and enjoy with a tall glass of milk.

Sticky Monkey Bread II

  • 3 cans biscuits

  • 1-1/2 cup sugar, divided

  • 1-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1 cup pecans, diced

  • 1-1/2 stick butter

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar

  • 1 cup evaporated milk

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cut each biscuit into four pieces. Combine 1/2 cup sugar, cinnamon, and pecans. Roll biscuits in sugar mixture. This is the fun part. If you have kids, you can let them do this.

Place in greased bundt pan. Bring butter, brown sugar, remaining 1 c. sugar and evaporated milk to a boil. Pour over biscuits. Bake 45 minutes.

Invert on serving plate immediately after removing from the oven. So, there you have two ways to make Monkey Bread. Be sure to try it sometime with our Denise Lorraine's Rich Hot Rolls sometime when you are making bread for dinner.

If your family loves cinnamon sticky buns, they are going to love Monkey Bread.

Half the fun of Monkey Bread is pulling it apart when it's time to eat. See if your kids doesn't just go ape over Monkey Bread