Brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. There is no better combination than that in the baking world! This monkey bread recipe brings together all of those ingredients to create the best monkey bread you will ever eat!
Every family has that breakfast. The one that makes the whole family just a little bit happier. When mom or dad made it and you smelled it while still in bed, it would make you get dressed and ready to go just that much quicker. In our household, that special breakfast takes the form of monkey bread! Seriously though, how could you go wrong with it? It’s biscuit dough, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter! The most perfect combination on earth!
If you have kiddos this recipe is especially perfect! When I was young and my dad would make this breakfast treat, I would be most excited for the leftover batter. I know, that sounds weird, and a bit counterintuitive, but believe me when I tell you it’s the best part. After he was done making the batter and he poured it into the baking pan, I would be ready with a spatula in hand to lick the bowl clean. (The most difficult part was sharing the bowl with my brother. 😉
With most of my recipes, I try to make them super easy for any level cook. The prep time on this breakfast is less than 10 minutes! This means you can easily make the batter, put it into the oven, set a timer, and go spend some time with your kids or go get some work done.
Another great thing about this recipe is how good it makes your house smell! 😉 The cinnamon and brown sugar do something special while in the oven that makes the entire house smell DIVINE!! I can’t get over it!!!!
Perfecting Your Breakfast
Here’s a couple key parts to making this monkey bread as perfect a possible:
- Butter it KEY! Imma be honest here. If you’re baking this recipe, you’re most likely not making it lose weight. So, put as much butter as you can spare into the batter. If you want to put more than what written in the recipe, go for it!!! The monkey bread will only get better the more butter you put. 🙂
- Baking Temp/Time: The last time that I made this monkey bread, I decided to test out something different during the baking. For 25 minutes I baked the bread at 375 degrees F then at 325 degrees F for 20 minutes. My goal was to make a monkey bread that was less doughy and a bit more cooked through, without being burnt on the top of course. And it worked! The different temperatures were a great way to fully cook the dough without becoming black crisp on the top!
- Shredded Apple! This is probably the biggest curveball for you in this recipe. Let me explain why. The apple does something special with the sugar, butter, and dough. Its juices mix and make the dough super soft and squish! Its the secret ingredient that makes a normal monkey bread fall behind this one!
Alright, we’ve talked enough about this marvelous monkey bread, let’s get cooking!!
Brown Sugar-Cinnamon Monkey Bread
AuthorbasilanddillDifficultyBeginnerPreheat your oven to 375 degrees F and grease a cake pan of your choice with a little bit of olive oil spray. (I recommend a bundt pan. 🙂 While the oven is heating, prepare the dough!
In a large bowl, melt 1 cup butter in the microwave. Using scissors cut each biscuit into 6-7 pieces, making sure to cut each piece as equally sized as possible. Put all the pieces of biscuits into the bowl of butter. Fold the butter and biscuits together so that each piece is coated with butter.
Fold the white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon into the buttered biscuts until combined. Next add the chopped pecan pieces and shredded apple and fold the batter once more. Pour the batter into the baking pan and pop it into the preheated oven.
Bake the monkey bread at 375 degrees F for 25 minutes then turn the heat down to 325 and bake for another 20 minutes. When you timer rings, pull out the monkey bread and check it out. If the bread still looks a bit raw, pop it back into the oven ad check it every 5 minutes until it reached your preferred level of cookedness. If the inside looks cooked to your liking leave it out to cool for at least 15 minutes and enjoy!
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F and grease a cake pan of your choice with a little bit of olive oil spray. (I recommend a bundt pan. 🙂 While the oven is heating, prepare the dough!
In a large bowl, melt 1 cup butter in the microwave. Using scissors cut each biscuit into 6-7 pieces, making sure to cut each piece as equally sized as possible. Put all the pieces of biscuits into the bowl of butter. Fold the butter and biscuits together so that each piece is coated with butter.
Fold the white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon into the buttered biscuts until combined. Next add the chopped pecan pieces and shredded apple and fold the batter once more. Pour the batter into the baking pan and pop it into the preheated oven.
Bake the monkey bread at 375 degrees F for 25 minutes then turn the heat down to 325 and bake for another 20 minutes. When you timer rings, pull out the monkey bread and check it out. If the bread still looks a bit raw, pop it back into the oven ad check it every 5 minutes until it reached your preferred level of cookedness. If the inside looks cooked to your liking leave it out to cool for at least 15 minutes and enjoy!
Notes
- To cut the biscuits, begin by cutting off a side of the whole biscuit. Then, rotate it and cut off another side. Continue doing so until you are left with a piece of dough the same size that your cuts of dough have been and just drop it into the bowl of butter
- I use the term “fold” instead of “mix” in this recipe because you have to be pretty delicate with the pieces of biscuit dough. If you go at it and just mix the dough, you’re gonna end up with ball of biscuit pieces which would be a bummer.