Maple Bacon Monkey Bread is the perfect blend of sweet and savory breakfast flavors layered over soft, sticky pull-apart bites. Try today!
Monkey Bread is always an amazing and indulgent Baked Good to serve for the holidays. Try making my Maple Bacon French Toast Bake or my Pumpkin French Toast Bake.
Sabrina’s Maple Bacon Monkey Bread Recipe
This Monkey Bread recipe is a great way to change up a classic breakfast. If Monkey Bread isn’t one of your family traditions, you might be wondering where it got its name from. It’s called Monkey Bread because it’s made with biscuit dough balls that you can pull apart and eat with your hands, as a monkey would. This aspect of the dish always makes it a big hit with kids who love pulling the breakfast apart.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 36 ounces refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough , each cut into quarters, (3 packages)
- 1/2 cup bacon , cooked and crumbled
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar , packed
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a bundt pan with baking spray.
- Add the sugar, cinnamon, biscuit quarters, and bacon to a large bowl and toss well.
- Add pieces to a bundt pan (do not press down).
- Add the butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup 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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Sabrina’s Tips
Before you start the recipe, you need to cook the bacon. Add the slices of bacon to a skillet and cook on each side until chewy and crispy. Once the bacon has cooled a little, break it into pieces. That way, you can add the broken pieces of bacon into the dough.
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About this Recipe
Similar to Cinnamon Rolls, Monkey Bread takes easy pastry dough topped with butter, spices, and sugar for the perfect family breakfast. But, unlike cinnamon rolls, you don’t have to worry about shaping the dough or letting it rise. The refrigerated biscuits are just cut into dough balls and coated in butter and sugar to bake.
How to Store
- Serve: Monkey Bread is best served fresh, but make sure to give it 10 minutes to cool down so that the hot sugars don’t burn you.
- Store: If you have any leftovers, you can keep them covered in plastic wrap at room temperature or in the fridge. Kept sealed in plastic wrap, it’ll stay good for 2-3 days either way.
- Freeze: You can also freeze the Maple Bacon Monkey Bread for up to 1 month. To reheat it, let it thaw in the fridge. Then wrap it in tin foil and put it in a 325-degree oven for 6-8 minutes until it’s warmed through.
Variations
- Pecan: For Pecan Maple Monkey Bread, toss 1 cup of pecans with the biscuit pieces before you put them in the baking dish. You can also try other nuts like walnuts, almonds, cashews, or macadamia nuts. Any of them will add a nice crunchy texture to the bread.
- Add-ins: There are plenty of other mix-ins you can try in this monkey bread recipe. Chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, coconut flakes, or toffee bits would all taste great. You could also add spices like nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.
- Toppings: For some tasty toppings, try dusting the Bread with cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, or chocolate shavings before serving it.
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