Gorilla Bread is a gooey, sugary, delicious holiday breakfast. This bread is the bigger and tastier version of Monkey Bread! Try it today!
I’ve made Gooey Monkey Bread in the past, and now I’ve decided to make the bigger, better, richer version of it to add to all the awesome Holiday Recipes you know you’re in search of!
Sabrina’s Gorilla Bread Recipe
Make your own delicious, golden brown loaf of Gorilla Bread using this easy recipe. It’s perfect for Christmas morning breakfast, a holiday brunch, or a tasty Thanksgiving dessert. This sweet breakfast is a large bread that uses canned biscuits, and it takes things up a notch with a delicious filling, warm coated chopped walnuts and that amazing glaze.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar , packed
- 8 ounce package cream cheese
- 24 ounces refrigerated biscuits
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts , coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a bundt pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Add the butter and brown sugar to a glass bowl to your microwave and melt in 30 second increments until fully melted, then stir well until combined.
- Cut your cream cheese into 20 pieces, spread your biscuits into flattened circles on a large cutting board, place a piece of cream cheese in each one and fold it closed over the cream cheese.
- Roll each closed biscuit in cinnamon and sugar and place it in the bundt pan.
- After ten biscuits, top the biscuits with half the nuts and half the butter mixture.
- Add the remaining biscuits, the remaining nuts and top with the remaining butter/brown sugar mixture.
- Top with any remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Let cool for 5 minutes before removing from bundt pan by placing cake stand or plate upside down over the bundt pan and flipping very carefully.
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About this Recipe
Gorilla Bread is a richer, larger version of Monkey Bread that uses cream cheese to add creamy goodness with every bite. The walnuts adds an amazing texture and this next level dessert is a recipe everyone will love.
Can this be made ahead of time?
Yes, you can. Keep it stored overnight in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge.
What to Pair With
Add a scoop of Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream and drizzling with Salted Caramel Sauce to make it into an indulgent dessert.
How to Store
- Serve: Due to the cream cheese filling, it’s best not to leave this recipe at room temperature for more than a couple of hours.
- Store: Gorilla Bread will stay good in the fridge for up to 4 days before it goes bad. People say you shouldn’t refrigerate Gorilla Bread because it’s relatively complicated to reheat it. I suggest eating it cold out of the fridge instead of heating it, but you can heat it up in a conventional oven, just don’t microwave it.
- Freeze: You can freeze the recipe for up to 3 months as long as you keep it properly sealed. If you’re freezing precut, loose pieces, you should definitely layer pieces of parchment paper or wax paper between them.
Alternative Cooking Techniques
Loaf Pans
If you want smaller, more shareable versions of this recipe, you can forgo the bundt pan and use loaf pans instead. These smaller versions are great sliced up and served for dessert but to wow a room full of relatives, I would definitely suggest making it cake shaped.
Frequent Questions
No, not the way this recipe makes it.
Because of the stuffing these bites are much larger, like mini cinnamon rolls. If you want to make the bites smaller you can, but you’d have to make the dough thinner to wrap around your cream cheese.
Variations
- Add ins: Try adding sliced pieces of various nuts along with the walnuts, like pecans or cashews. You can also add things like chocolate chips, chopped cookies, or candy pieces that you can add to this thick dessert bread to make it even sweeter.
- Peanut butter: Gorilla bread lends itself to the idea of PB & banana monkey bread. Try this stuffed with peanut butter and top with caramelized bananas!
- Biscuits: There are a few different kinds of biscuits that you can use for this recipe depending on the flavor you’re going for. Try using cinnamon roll dough, buttermilk biscuits or dinner roll mixtures to get different tastes and textures. Making it with crescent rolls is absolutely buttery and delicious.
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I plop each cream cheese cube into the cinnamon sugar before wrapping it up…makes it even better
I am making this Christmas morning. Looks easy to make and looks delicious to eat with a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate.
Perfect! Happy holidays!!
I wondered about the name at first, but when you explain, I can completely see why – it’s definitely that step up and looks so incredibly decadent (and tasty)!
Hahaha right? Giant bites.
Did you say…stuffed with cream cheese? That’s all I needed to hear.
Gorilla bread! I’m loving the name, so much more fun than monkey bread, indeed. And this is so delicious and just perfect to serve for holidays. 🙂
This sounds like the perfect treat! I love gooey desserts.
I think is more than one better than a Monkey Bread. OMG! This looks soooo good! Thanks for another great recipe.
So glad you like it!
When do you add the butter and brown sugar mixture? Did I miss something?
No, it was me missing my coffee, clearly. I edited it. Thank you so much for catching my error!
I dont see the revision. What do you do with the butter/brown sugar??
You melt it in step 3, pour half over biscuits in step 6, and then the remainder over step 7. Hope this helps 🙂
Love this recipe! Do I use a bundt pan wrong? Shouldnt I put the nuts in the bottom of the pan and then Lay 10 pieces down and put the next layer of nuts? So my nuts are on top and when i flip it out? Thank you for your help!
You can definitely do it that way too. I just garnished at the end with more nuts. So glad you love it!