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

How to Make Money Bread with Cream Cheese Stuffing

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.

Check out these other fun breakfast recipes:

Make-Ahead Breakfast Quiche

Bacon Breakfast Pizza

Baked Peach Oatmeal

Overnight Stuffed French Toast

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

 

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