Monkey bread is one of my favorite easy and sweet breakfast recipes. This Easy Pull Apart Monkey Bread recipe uses canned biscuits. It’s a quick recipe you can have in the oven in less than 10 minutes! 35 minutes later you’ll pull out this morning breakfast treat.
For this recipe I used Bailey’s Sweet Italian Biscotti Cream to coat the dough in before baking. I knew it would make a fabulous Sweet Italian Biscotti Monkey Bread. I used to mix that creamer with iced coffee all day long! It’s addicting! P.S. This creamer is non-alcoholic. Using this creamer in the monkey bread recipe results in an even sweeter breakfast bread.
Easy Pull Apart Monkey Bread
Monkey Bread is basically a big bundt pan of gooey cinnamon rolls. Do I need to say more? The dough balls are coated in vanilla, nutmeg, and creamer and then a brown sugar butter sauce is poured on top. This creates the sweet and sticky pull apart bites monkey bread is known for. You can top your monkey bread with vanilla icing and serve pull apart style for easy sharing among friends at brunch..
Ingredients for Easy Pull Apart Monkey Bread
- Baileys Sweet Italian Biscotti Cream
- Eggs
- Ground Cinnamon
- Vanilla
- Nutmeg
- Canned Biscuits
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Powdered Sugar
Four Parts to Monkey Bread
- Monkey Bread Dough: For this recipe we are using simple canned biscuits. If you have a favorite biscuit dough, you could easily replace the canned biscuits with it.
- Monkey Bread Dough Coating: This is the creamer, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.
- Brown Sugar Butter Sauce for Monkey Bread: This gets poured onto the bread right before placing in the oven.
- Monkey Bread Icing: This recipe just uses a simple sprinkle of powdered sugar, but you could easily whip up a confectioners sugar milk combo for icing to drizzle on top.
So I gathered some ingredients and went to work. This entire recipe took under ten minutes to put together then baked in the oven for about 35 minutes. But wow! What a great snack or an even better morning breakfast treat.
How to Make Monkey Bread
- Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan with cooking spray.
- Whisk together cream, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.
- Cut each biscuit into quarters. Dip each biscuit in the cream mixture and place in the tube pan. Continue until all biscuits are coated and distributed in the pan.
- Combine the butter and brown sugar and pour evenly over biscuit pieces.
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and no longer doughy in the center.
- Let monkey bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan with cooking spray.
- Whisk together cream, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.
- Cut each biscuit into quarters. Dip each biscuit in the cream mixture and place in the tube pan. Continue until all biscuits are coated and distributed in the pan.
- Combine the butter and brown sugar and pour evenly over biscuit pieces.
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and no longer doughy in the center.
- Let monkey bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Pull apart to serve!
Expert Tips
- Work quickly with the dough. You will get a better rise with cold dough than room temperature
- Make sure your Bundt pan can hold about 12 cups of ingredients. You don't want your dough to rise over the edge and spill out into the oven.
- Grease the inside of your Bundt pan really well. Be sure to get in all the cracks.
- You can make the monkey bread dough ahead of time and store in the refrigerator for up to an hour before baking.
- Don’t have Bailey’s creamer? You can replace it with your favorite flavored coffee creamer. Or you can leave out the creamer and coat the biscuit pieces in the same egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla mixture. It will still turn out gooey and sweet!
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Easy Pull Apart Monkey Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup Baileys Sweet Italian Biscotti Cream
- 2 eggs beaten
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 cans Pillsbury buttermilk biscuits
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan with cooking spray.
- Whisk together cream, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.
- Cut each biscuit into quarters. Dip each biscuit in the cream mixture and place in the tube pan. Continue until all biscuits are coated and distributed in the pan.
- Combine the butter and brown sugar and pour evenly over biscuit pieces.
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and no longer doughy in center.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes.
- Turn upside down onto serving plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Pull apart to serve.
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robin Rue says
Dang, that sounds amazing! I am going to have to make this for my family this weekend for breakfast. They will flip!
serena says
It's so great for the weekend breakfasts. They will love it
Joanna @ Everyday Made Fresh says
Hmm, yummy! We love monkey bread, and I love that particular flavor of coffee creamer. I am sure this tastes amazing!
Melissa Chapman says
I am not a baker in general but if I can use the already made dough that will help a lot. The look of the finished product looks amazing so it may be my next baking project.
Angela Tolsma says
I have never heard of Baileys Sweet Italian Biscotti Cream but you bet I am going to be looking for it in the grocery store. It sounds wonderful! I also have never had monkey bread, eventually I'll fix that!
Nicole Campbell says
I am going to use maple syrup cream liquor and place of the Bailey’s Italian sweet cream
serena says
How did it turn out? I haven't tried maple syrup cream liquor before.
Reesa Lewandowski says
Wow I have never seen a monkey bread with so much flavor in it! I love the Bailey's creamers in my coffee!
Krystel | Disney on a Budget says
Oh yum, would love to try this. Not sure if I've ever had it before
Karen Morse says
I would love to have one slice right now and more later, please! This looks really good and I'm sure it's perfect with a hot beverage this season!
Beth Davidson says
I think I just got too excited reading the title. I am such a monkey bread fan, and I love that you used Biscotti cream. Guess I know what I'm trying this weekend!
Toya says
Your picture alone is so mouth wateringly good. I've had monkey bread but never made it myself, i just might do that now.
serena says
It's so easy. Give it a try!
Jewish Chick says
I should not be reading this at midnight! I'm famished now, these look DIVINE!
serena says
Happens to me all the time! I have to pick specific times of day to read food blogs 🙂
Gingermommy says
This looks so fantastic. I am going to have to try it this weekend. I love the tastes of biscotti!
serena says
Give it a try! Enjoy 🙂
Krystal Butherus says
I'll have to keep an eye out for that Bailey's Sweet Italian Biscotti Creamer. I normally don't use that brand, but, this flavor sounds appealing. It will go good with this monkey bread!
Terri Steffes says
Doesn't this look incredible??? I think it would make the perfect brunch recipe! Have to put this one on my list.
Louise says
OMG this looks too yummy for words!! Cant wait to try it for myself, thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
serena says
Thanks so much! Enjoy 🙂
Jessica Joachim says
This looks amazingly delicious! I love the Bailey's coffee creamer, so I totally need to try this recipe out soon! I think my hubs would love it too!
Elise @ Belle Meets World blog says
This looks incredible! This would be the perfect dish to bring to a brunch I'm heading to next week, so I'm bookmarking this now. Anything with Bailey's has my name all over it!
serena says
Perfect for brunch! Enjoy!
Maria says
Though I'd make this without the Baileys, LOL, I love all the different flavors you can put into monkey bread and still keep it yummy!!
Jeanine Macintosh says
This looks so yummy! I’d have to make 9 of them. None of our family would share!!
serena says
Ha Ha Ha! Love it!
Carolyn says
I love flavored creamer so this bread would be amazing. My kids would even love flavored breakfast breads and sweets.
Melissa says
I'm thinking Sunday breakfast! This would get eaten up so quickly in my home.
kimberly lewis says
monkey bread is the best! it's so gooey and delicious that it's so hard not to go overboard with it.
Tiffany Haywood says
Oh My!! I would absolutely devour this! Looks and sounds delicious!
Britt says
I have always loved monkey bread but this looks absolutely amazing! I need to try this for my kids!
Heather says
This looks awesome and definitely something we want to try! My oldest daughter is nine years old and she loves making monkey bread with her grandpa. She would be really excited to share this recipe with him for something new when they bake together!
serena says
I remember baking with my grandma. Such fun times 🙂 I hope they enjoy it!
amanda says
This was so delicious, loved the flavor and the directions were so easy to follow - thanks!
kyleigh says
So easy and delicious!
Luke Ratford says
The best monkey bread recipe went down a treat with the family for breakfast 🙂
Karen says
This was delicious! I love Bailey's and love monkey bread. I think this is such a great recipe for a special brunch or especially for the holidays!
Lindsay Howerton-Hastings says
So yummy! We made this last weekend and gobbled it up.
Alexandra says
This is so incredibly delicious!
Makhaya says
This was a perfect recipe for our brunch celebration. Thank you so much for sharing this easy and delicious dish!
Brianna May says
This looks delish!!
Tatiana says
Baked and added this bread to my kids lunch boxes to take to school. they love it