Monkey Bread with Canned Biscuits

Name: Monkey Bread with Canned Biscuits
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 65 min
Ingredients: Cooking Spray; ½ cup Granulated Sugar; 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon; Pinch Nutmeg; 2 -16.3 ounces Canned Biscuits; 1 stick Salted Butter; 1 cup Brown Sugar; ½ cup Pecans (chopped)

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Soft, sweet, fluffy are the best words to describe this ultra decadent Monkey Bread with Canned Biscuits recipe. The main ingredients for this under an hour recipe are refrigerated biscuits, sugar, butter, and cinnamon. These ingredients make for a surprisingly delectable sweet pull-apart bread.

Fingers pulling apart sticky pull apart bread with pecans.

This monkey bread with canned biscuits recipe brings back so many nostalgic memories for me. Every summer growing up, my family would visit the South Jersey shore. During our summer vacation we would rent bikes or a suri that 4 to 6 of us could ride together on around the boardwalk.

Our vacation wasn’t complete without visiting a store on the boardwalk called “Monkey Bread”. This was the first I had ever heard of this sweet amazingness “they” claimed to call “bread”. A sticky and sweet cinnamon sugar pull apart bread.

After our yearly visits my mom started making this as a special breakfast treat (maybe twice a year if we were lucky).

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Easy Breakfast Recipes
Monkey Bread with Canned Biscuits

Why this Recipe Works

Anyone skill level of cook can make this recipe.

Store bought canned biscuits are the star of this recipe.

The flavors to this easy Monkey Bread recipe can be altered depending on tastes and desired sweetness level.

Ingredients

Cooking Spray – this is a must for this recipe. Make sure you spray the fluted tube pan very well to ensure the bread will remove effortlessly.
Granulated Sugar – You’ll create a cinnamon sugar mixture to toss the dough in.
Ground Cinnamon – A good ground cinnamon will be perfect for the cinnamon sugar
Nutmeg – I love to use a dash of this to add to the layer of flavors throughout the bread.
Canned Biscuits – yes, you read that right. No need to make yeast biscuits from scratch. This is the perfect semi-homemade recipe. Even better to get kids involved in the kitchen!
Salted Butter – this is needed to make the caramel like sauce.
Brown Sugar – mixed into the butter

Directions

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Lightly grease 12-cup fluted tube pan with cooking spray.

In a large bag, mix together the granulated sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set to the side.

Overhead shot of cut up refrigerated canned biscuits cut into quarters.

Open packages of biscuits and cut each biscuit into quarters.

Top view of quartered biscuits tossed in cinnamon sugar in a bag.

Toss the quarter biscuits in cinnamon sugar mixture.

Glass bowl with brown sugar butter mixed with a green silicone spatula.

In a sauce pan, mix together the butter and brown sugar.

Brown fluted ceramic pan with raw cinnamon sugar biscuits with pecans.

Start placing the quarter pieces of biscuits around the fluted tub pan. Sprinkle some of the chopped pecans ⅓ of the way through. Continue to layer and added more pecans throughout today.

Hand pouring brown sugar glaze from a glass bowl on to fluted pan with dough.

Pour the brown sugar sauce on top. Making sure to cover the entire top. Using a spoon, push the biscuits around to ensure the brown sugar butter seaps through the biscuits.

Monkey bread in a brown fluted pan on a baking dish inside a blue oven.

Bake for 45 minutes. Make sure you place a baking sheet under the pan in case it bubbles over.

Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes.

Sticky brown sugar dough pulled apart with a fork with pecans nestled throughout.

Place a plate on top of the fluted pan and carefully flip monkey bread over. Serve immediately and enjoy.

FAQs

Overhead shot of pull apart bread on a white plate with orange juice and dish cloth in background.

Why do they call it Monkey bread?

According to Wikipedia “The origin of the term “monkey bread” comes from the pastry being a finger food; the consumer would pick apart the bread as a monkey would.”

Is Monkey bread a breakfast food?

Yes, it’s an American style pastry that you pull apart to eat as a breakfast treat.

Does monkey bread have to be in a bundt pan?

Traditionally it is made in a fluted pan. It resembles a circular donut shape. You can make it in a non-fluted pan, but you won’t get the same shape. Cooking time could also be less (never tested a non-fluted pan with this recipe).

How do you reheat bread without it getting hard?

To reheat the sweet bread you’ll want to wrap it in aluminum foil. This will help prevent it from getting hard. The steam trapped inside the aluminum foil will keep it soft. Bake at 350 degrees (covered) for 10-15 minutes until warmed through.

Tips & Tricks

Here are a few of my favorite tips and tricks whenever I make Monkey Bread with Biscuits.

Pan – A large fluted tube pan is highly recommended for this recipe. The come in a lot of designs. The most familiar is a “bundt” pan.
Measure Prior – Prior to baking, be sure the pan can hold 12 cups. If you are unsure you can pour measured cups of water into the pan to check the volume. This will ensure the dough can rise up without overflowing.
Grease – Grease the inside of the fluted tube pan well. This will ensure the sticky bread will remove easily.

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Pulled apart sweet bread on a white plate with a fork with oj in background.

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