Chocolate Monkey Bread is gooey, chocolatey, and sweet! This easy pull-apart bread is smothered in caramel! Perfect for breakfast or dessert!
No matter the flavor, Gooey Monkey Bread is an easy, indulgent Breakfast or Dessert perfect for the holidays or whenever you need to serve a crowd fast!
Sabrina’s Chocolate Monkey Bread Recipe
Warm, soft pull apart bread smothered in cinnamon sugar and caramel is always a good idea, but when you add chocolate to it? Pure genius! This gooey chocolate masterpiece is sure to be a new family favorite for holidays.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3 packages refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough , 12 ounces, each cut into quarters
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar , packed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a bundt pan with baking spray.
- Add the sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon, chocolate chips and biscuit quarters to a large bowl and toss well.
- Add pieces to a bundt pan (do not press down).
- Add the butter and brown sugar to a medium saucepan on medium heat and bring to a boil for one minute before pouring onto the bundt pan.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, remove from oven, let cool for 10-15 minutes then place a plate over the bottom of the bundt pan and flip over to remove.
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About This Recipe
Monkey Bread with chocolate is just as easy to make as original Monkey Bread, with just two extra ingredients to turn it into a chocolate lover’s dream breakfast. Along with the cinnamon sugar mixture you normally toss the dough pieces in, you are going to add a little cocoa powder. A cup of chocolate chips mixed mixed in with the cocoa cinnamon covered dough pieces bake into melty chocolate bursts.
Chef’s Note
Like every good easy holiday recipe, this Monkey Bread starts with one of our favorite kitchen hacks – refrigerator biscuits! Refrigerator biscuit dough is the best you if are craving Cinnamon Roll flavor but you don’t want to do any of the work. All you need to do is chop the pre-made biscuit dough into quarters, toss the pieces in the cinnamon sugar chocolate mixture, and bake for cinnamon buns on easy mode.
How To Store
- Serve: Allow monkey bread to cool for 10-15 minutes before inverting onto a plate so it holds together. It will still be very hot once it comes out the Bundt pan, so cool a little longer if serving little kids.
- Store: Store monkey bread in an airtight container or wrapped in plastic wrap tightly. Keep bread at room temperature for up to 4 days or refrigerate for up to 1 week. Warm before serving.
- Freeze: Once cooled, wrap monkey bread, remove from Bundt pan and wrap tightly in plastic wrap and aluminum foil. Freeze bread for up to 6 months and reheat from frozen. Place in a greased baking pan (or put back in Bundt pan) and bake at 350 degrees until hot and sauce is bubbly.
Ideas to Serve
This monkey bread has all the gooey, chocolatey melty goodness you love in every bite. This is an indulgent breakfast with a cup of coffee or as a special holiday dessert. For your chocolate fanatics, serve drizzled with Chocolate Ganache and a dollop of Whipped Cream. You can also serve it up warm with scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream. Add some Salted Caramel Sauce and nuts for another layer of sweet sundae goodness!
Alternative Cooking Techniques
Slow Cooker
- Spray a slow cooker insert generously with baking spray.
- Coat biscuit dough pieces and chocolate chips in cinnamon cocoa sugar mixture.
- Prepare butter and brown sugar sauce.
- Add half the coated dough and chocolate chips to slow cooker.
- Pour half the butter brown sugar mixture over dough.
- Add remaining dough pieces, chocolate chips, and cinnamon sugar. Top with the rest of the brown sugar butter sauce.
- Cover insert with paper towels or linen kitchen towels (to absorb moisture).
- Place lid over towels and cook on high for 3 hours.
Variations
- Nuts: Fold in ½ cup chopped, toasted pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, or peanuts for some salty crunch to balance the sweetness.
- Chocolate: Instead of semi-sweet chocolate chips, try dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, or mint chocolate chips. You could also use peppermint chips for a Peppermint Mocha Monkey Bread during Christmas.
- Cinnamon Rolls: Swap the refrigerator biscuit dough for store bought cinnamon roll dough and alter the cinnamon sugar mixture. Reduce the sugar to ¼ cup sugar and leave out the ground cinnamon so the cocoa flavor isn’t overpowered with double cinnamon flavor.
- Hot Chocolate Monkey Bread: Replace the unsweetened cocoa powder and ½ cup sugar with ½ cup hot chocolate mix. Finish the hot chocolate flavor by folding in ½ cup mini marshmallows or mallow bits. Top hot monkey bread with marshmallows after it has been removed from the pan.
- Cream Cheese: Keep biscuit dough rounds whole and shape into flat circles. Cut 2 8-ounce blocks softened cream cheese into 24 pieces. Add one piece of cream cheese to the center of each flattened round and wrap dough around cheese. Toss stuffed dough pieces in cocoa mixture, cover with caramel, and bake for an additional 5-10 minutes.
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Absolute perfection! The brown sugar and butter sauce creates the most amazing caramel that coats every single piece of dough.
I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed it, Ava. Thank you for the 5 stars!