Monkey Bread With Cream Cheese Stuffing
This monkey bread with cream cheese includes biscuits stuffed with cream cheese and covered in cinnamon, brown sugar, and pecans. It’s the most delicious and sweet breakfast or dessert to indulge in today.
Does the above description make anyone else drool or just me? This monkey bread with cream cheese recipe I’m sharing today is a deluxe version of the classic monkey bread recipe. It takes a few minutes more but really amps it up a notch and makes a great breakfast danish! We tend to have it for dessert or a special evening snack, though.
Now, some monkey bread recipes include a cream cheese glaze. But we’re going one extra step and stuffing each piece of biscuit with cream cheese. The cream cheese isn’t sweetened, so it creates the perfect balance between the sweetness of the brown sugar. The other ingredients include biscuits, cinnamon, white sugar, butter, and pecans. They combine to make a quick, easy, and delicious pull-apart bread that you can pop into the oven in minutes!
Each flaky yet soft biscuit piece is covered in cinnamon and sugar and stuffed with cream cheese. Then they’re placed in a bundt pan in a caramelized sauce made from butter, brown sugar, and pecans. Oh my goodness, my mouth is watering already just thinking of that delicious praline sauce.
The best part is, when you share this with family and friends, they’ll be in for a surprise when they pick up a biscuit and it’s filled with gooey cream cheese.
Recipe Ingredients
- Pecans (optional)
- Grands Jr biscuits
- Cinnamon
- Brown sugar
- White sugar
- Cream cheese (check out this post to learn how easy it is to make cream cheese at home).
- Butter
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Lightly grease a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray.
Place 1/2 a stick of butter (1/4 cup) in the cake pan and put this in the oven while it preheats just to give the butter time to melt.
In a bowl, stir together the cinnamon and sugar.
On a plate, cut your cream cheese into 24 to 28 cubes.
Oh, look! Our butter has done gone and melted!
Isn’t it nice when something does what we want it to?
Enjoy this moment while it lasts because goodness knows we don’t get many of these.
Sprinkle your brown sugar all over the top of that.
Now add your pecans.
Now take each biscuit and tear it into two layers.
Oh look, here are some cute little biscuits all torn into layers and then some whole biscuits up at the top awaiting their fate!
Once they’re all layered up, put a little cube of cream cheese in the center of each one.
Y’all, this isn’t all of the layers for one pan, it’s only half of them. Just wanted to point that out.
Then, fold the biscuits into little balls to cover up the cream cheese and press them a bit to seal them closed.
Now just roll them around in the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Arrange them on top of your pecans in the pan.
Do this until your pan is full.
Sprinkle a few more tablespoons of the cinnamon sugar mixture over your bread.
Cut up the remaining butter and scatter that over the top.
This is only 1/4 cup of butter but when you cut it up into little pieces it looks like I’m dropping 2 pounds on this thing doesn’t it?
Bake this in a 350 oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until lightly browned all over the top.
Remove from the oven and let cook for 5 minutes before turning it out onto a plate.
Keep in mind that you have tiny little molten cream cheese centers so for some of us that means letting it cool, for others it means eating it as soon as possible!
Storage
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also wrap portions in foil and place them in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight before reheating in the oven or air fryer.
Recipe Notes
- You can use any type of pan to make this stuffed monkey bread, including the traditional bundt cake pan or a 9×13-inch pan.
- You can substitute pecans for walnuts in this recipe or omit the nuts completely.
- Alternatively, add sliced apples, pears, raisins, or chopped berries on top of the pecans before adding the dough balls.
- If you want even more sweetness, you can drizzle a simple vanilla glaze over the top of the monkey bread before serving.
Recipe FAQs
What is monkey bread sauce made of?
The monkey bread sauce is like a caramelized pecan praline sauce, made with butter, brown sugar, and pecans. It’s so good, y’all.
What kind of nuts go in monkey bread?
The best nuts for monkey bread are pecans and walnuts.
Why do they call monkey bread monkey bread?
Monkey bread gets its name from the way you break off pieces of dough with your fingers like a monkey grooms a friend! Yes, really.
How do you make chocolate cream cheese monkey bread?
Sprinkle chocolate chips before adding the biscuit balls to the cake pan and on top before baking.
Check out these other fun breakfast recipes:
Overnight Stuffed French Toast
Ingredients
- 15 Grands Jr biscuits 1 large can and one small can or 2 large and cook the extras
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup light or dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup pecans
- 8 ounces cream cheese straight from the refrigerator
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Prepare a 9-inch cake pan by lightly greasing it with cooking spray and placing 1/4 cup of butter (half of a stick) in it. Put this in the oven while it preheats just until the butter melts.1/2 cup butter
- Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the brown sugar over the melted butter. Sprinkle pecan pieces on top of that. Set aside.1 cup light or dark brown sugar, 1 cup pecans
- In a small bowl, stir together the cinnamon and white sugar. Set aside. Cut cold cream cheese into 24 small cubes and set aside.1 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, 8 ounces cream cheese
- Divide each biscuit into two layers. Place a cube of cream cheese in the center of each layer and fold the biscuit dough around it, pressing to seal the cream cheese in. Roll each cream cheese-filled dough ball in the cinnamon sugar mixture and place them close together on top of the pecans in the cake pan. Repeat until the pan is full.15 Grands Jr biscuits
- Sprinkle a few tablespoons of the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture over the dough balls. Cut the remaining butter up into small pieces and scatter over the top of all of this.
- Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before turning out.
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These sound delicious and I can’t wait to make them. I love the nickname for your daughter. When I was little my grandpa called me Little Bit and my niece who was a few years younger Too Little (unfortunately time and age has changed both of those way too much). I call my youngest son BFH and he will always answer. I had a miscarriage before he was born and was told I would be unable to have another child (I had a son already), then lo and behold here he comes. So he is my Blessing from Heaven – BFH. Love your site and all of your encouraging words. So many of the things you write about reminds me of my childhood.
I can’t wait to make this to share with others. I have called my daughter since she was 3 months old “MONKEY” as she started standing by holding onto things and climbing just like a monkey. I worked at her elementary school until she was in 5th grade. One day she was coming down the hall and I said, “Hey Monkey go to my classroom and get me a highlighter” I was on hall duty and couldn’t go get it. All of a sudden the principal came up behind and stated “OH NO, we do not call our students names. I tried to explain it was just Mykala’s nickname and I did it without thinking. The principal gave me a chewing out telling me it didn’t matter if it was my own child. Well she’s a freshman in college and still my MONKEY! Which she buys me monkey items when she finds one that she likes. I have a small stuffed monkey on a clip wearing an ORU t-shirt that travels with me everywhere I go since she cannot be there in person.
I forgot to write what my daddy called me in fact I do not know how to spell it, but here goes he called me Pass-squaw- ly. Shuckens whatever that is I would give my eye tooth to hear daddy call me that just one more time.
If you don’t have canned biscuits on hand… Do you think a regular biscut recipe would work for this?!
It sure will! You will generally double the bake time but keep an eye on it just in case 🙂
I call my youngest Katy Grace who is 12 years old Stinkerbell too! And, not so odd on your part, because I shorten it to Stink all the time! My older daughter, Ally, is 15 and I call her Lovebug which I typically shorten to “buggie.”
Ok, I actually sighed with relief when I read this! I realized the other day that I was calling this precious little girl “Stink” and have been trying to reconcile that in my head ever since!
My younger but bigger brother calls me Squirt. He also calls my oldest son Spanky. I call my youngest son Brunsonator. His name is Brunson but when he was little he loved to destroy stuff so I took Terminator and merged it with Brunson to get Brunsonator. And I call my husband Dear so much that if I see one near the road I had to start saying Bambi or he thinks I’m calling him not warning him.
LOVE IT!
Much better than using the bundt pan. Love the idea of pecans.
Christy, you have the best recipes.
You are so sweet, Ann! I think the cake pan just kinda looks better and makes more sense, ya know? At least to me and that is what matters, huh? 🙂
Can hardly wait to try this! Yum!!!
And this is weird but my sisters called me Baby until one day, when I was into late teens, we were shopping and they called me that at the store. We got some really funny looks and I told them right then and there to never call me that in public again!!!! They haven’t.
This recipes looks wonderful and so easy!
When our son was young, the song “Don’t mess with my Toot Toot” came out and a close friend nicknamed him “Toot” . I know he is thankful that he finally out grew that now that is he 37 years old. He hasn’t outgrown the nickname I’ve called him and the rest of my family their whole lives and probably never will as long as I have breath in my body. They are all “Baby” to me – even my daughter-in-law, grandson, and husband. My daughter-in-law teases me about babying my son, but I have found she loves the babying just as much as the rest of my babies.
I love your family stories and think your kids are very fortunate to have so much of their childhood documented. Someday they will love being able to go back and read about things that have happened to them, that they have probably forgotten about. Keep writing and encouraging – your words have more power and inspiration than you will every know.
You are so sweet, Nanee! My heart smiled when I read about you calling your kids Baby. They really are always our precious little babies at the end of the day. I do hope my kids decide to read all of this one of these days. We’ll see 🙂
Hello! Christy lol I too call my family little names that I made up for them. It all started with my husband I called him beep beep I don’t know why but that’s just what came to my mind one day he was so embarrassed one day we were in the grocery store & I call out hey beep beep!! He looked at me like OMG !! Be quiet!! Lol!! & my daughters & now grand children all have nick names like sweet pea & monkey man!!
LOL, I would have loved to have seen the look on his face!