Quick and Easy Monkey Bread

When I have a houseful of people in need of breakfast, I think about filling AND easy recipes that I can whip up in a snap. I also want recipes that are easy enough I can delegate them to someone else who may not be skilled or as comfortable in the kitchen and know that with a few reassurances, this recipe can successfully be made by anyone of any cooking level, even my 6 year old grandson. This is the perfect, simple, recipe to start giving basic cooking lessons with a tasty payoff for my little baking student!

Quick and Easy Monkey Bread uses store bought biscuits and basic pantry items to create an ooey-gooey breakfast treat everyone will devour!!

Quick and Easy Monkey Bread is a breakfast goodie I remember from when I took Home Economics in middle school. Now, I am no spring chicken, so this lets you know this recipe is old!! Monkey Bread is still around though, pleasing people, simply because it is so good! If this was less than memorable, it would have faded away like the ever popular 1970’s Bologna Cake…..yes it was a real thing!!

In Home Economics, this was one of the first or second recipes we were tasked with making and had to share with the class. This turned out so well and I got so many “ooh’s” and “ahh’s” from the class.

Quick and Easy Monkey Bread is my go-to breakfast treat and Winter time dessert because it is so quick to make and so delicious to eat!!

I don’t tell you that to brag, but to demonstrate that even my relatively inexperienced, 12 year old self was able to make this and it turned out delicious! I mean it when I say, anyone can make this!

Whenever I walked into Home Ec class, no matter what was made in the class before mine, it always smelled like sugar cookies. I have no idea why, but it was inviting and I wanted to keep coming back again and again. It is kind of like this Quick and Easy Monkey Bread, one taste and you keep going back for more.

When I made this in middle school, we cut the refrigerator biscuits and tossed them into a paper lunch sack in which I had dumped cinnamon sugar. I would then give them a good shake to make sure all of biscuit pieces were well coated. I still make them the same way today. It worked like a charm then and still makes clean up a snap!

There are a few different recipes for monkey bread, some use store bought refrigerator biscuits, some use Parker House dough balls. The quick and easy part of my Quick and Easy Monkey Bread is that making the dough is already done and all you have to do is toss it in cinnamon sugar and throw it into a greased Bundt pan and you are pert near done!

I guess technically you have a little more to do than that, so let’s break it down. You need to open up your biscuits, you know the kind, you hit them on the counter. Then, cut each biscuit into four pieces and drop them into a brown paper bag in which you have put your cinnamon sugar. If you don’t have a bag, then dredging them in a bowl is just fine. Grease a Bundt pan and then pour in the melted butter, brown sugar and nut mixture, then toss the coated biscuit pieces in on top of that and place this into a preheated oven. When it is done cooking you will carefully, invert the whole thing (it’s going to be pretty warm) onto a large plate and then let yourself gaze at this awesome wonder of ooey-gooey, Quick and Easy Monkey Bread.

If you liked this yummy recipe, you will love my recipe for cinnamon rolls https://omadarling.com/cinnamon-rolls. Do you have a breakfast bread you make for a crowd like we do Quick and Easy Monkey Bread?