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Individual servings of mini monkey bread are a delicious cinnamon pull apart bread. This fun-size version is perfect for breakfast, brunch or an anytime treat.
What is Monkey Bread?
Monkey bread is bite sized pieces of dough baked together with other ingredients such as cinnamon, butter and sugar. You can also use savory ingredients such as in this Cheese Pull Apart Bread or this Pizza Monkey Bread.
I have shared a recipe for monkey bread before. It is made with yeast dough that is made from scratch but I decided to simplify the recipe and use store bought biscuit dough for this mini monkey bread muffins.
Ingredients Needed
- Sugar
- Cinnamon
- Refrigerated Biscuits
- Butter, melted
- Brown Sugar
- Cinnamon
- Powdered Sugar
- Milk
How to Make Mini Monkey Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray muffin pan with cooking spray or line muffin cup with cupcake liners. Lining them makes eating and clean up easier and less messy.
- Combine 1/2 C sugar and 1 Tbsp cinnamon in a plastic baggie. Shake to mix. You can also do this in a bowl.
- Cut each biscuits into 8 pieces with a pair of scissors. Cut biscuit in half, cut each piece in half and then cut each of those pieces in half.
- Place biscuit pieces in cinnamon sugar mixture and toss to coat.
- Place biscuit pieces in muffin tin. 8 pieces to each muffin tin.
- Mix together melted butter, brown sugar and 1 Tbsp cinnamon.
- Drizzle 2 spoonfuls of mixture over each biscuit.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until biscuits are cooked through.
- Cool and then drizzle with powdered sugar glaze.
Tips
- Use the larger Grands! biscuits. We like the Homestyle variety.
- Be sure biscuit pieces are totally covered in cinnamon sugar mixture.
- I prefer using cupcake liners. It makes clean up easier and makes them less messy to eat.
- Make the glaze as thick or thin as you like by adding extra powdered sugar or milk.
Frequently Asked Questions
What size muffin tin do you use for mini monkey bread?
I used a standard size muffin tin.
Can I freeze leftover mini monkey bread?
They can be frozen, but they are best enjoyed freeze the day they are made though. Store in an airtight container or zippered freezer bag and freeze for up to 2 months.
Can I add nuts?
Sprinkle the chopped nut of your choosing on top of the glaze.
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Mini Monkey Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon
- 2 cans refrigerated Grand Biscuits 8 to a can
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon
Glaze
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- enough milk to make a good drizzling consistency doesn’t take much
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray muffin tins or line with cupcake wrappers
- Combine 1/2 C sugar and 1 Tbsp cinnamon in a plastic baggie. Shake to mix.
- Cut biscuits into 8 pieces each
- Place biscuit pieces in sugar mixture and shake to coat.
- Place biscuit pieces in muffin tin. 8 pieces to each muffin tin.
- Mix together butter, brown sugar and 1 Tbsp cinnamon.
- Drizzle 2 spoonfuls of mixture over each biscuit.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until biscuits are cooked through.
- Cool and then drizzle with powdered sugar glaze.
Tips & Notes:
- Use the larger Grands! biscuits. We like the Homestyle variety.
- Be sure biscuit pieces are totally covered in cinnamon sugar mixture.
- I prefer using cupcake liners. It makes clean up easier and makes them less messy to eat.
- Make the glaze as thick or thin as you like by adding extra powdered sugar or milk.
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Sherri says
I made it for a snack during our coffee break at church and they were amazing! Absolutely none left over. I could only fit 6 pieces of dough into each muffin cup, and after they expanded during baking, they were the perfect size.
Melinda says
These were great right out of the oven but once they cooled off they got hard. It could have been something I did wrong. These also made my house smell amazing. I would rate these 4 1/2 stars and 5 stars if I was the one that didn’t do something right to cause them to get hard.
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
Try baking them not as long next time and see if that helps, if they are overbaked they will harden up as they cool.
Joy says
Can these be made in regular cupcake sized pan? Does the amount of biscuit pieces need to be reduced?
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
Ii used a regular cupcake sized pan, it just had six openings instead of twelve.
Connie Etzkorn says
Makes it easier since I am handicapped
Mike says
Very good!