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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I call my daughter “Boo”! No idea why, my son’s name is Casey Kristopher, we call him Casey K, and Caseman. It’s not just names, I have little names for everything! We call any cleaner in a spray bottle “ Push-Push”. My kids were horribly embarrassed in school when they were cleaning desks, and asked for the push-push, and kids looked at them like they were nuts!. I also call heinies, banoonies, no clue why. Ramen noodles are called “worms” in our house. Honestly, the list goes on and on. Now that my kids are older, all in their 20’s, they love all the little names that make us , well, US!!! Love monkey bread, will be trying this recipe soon!
Love all the names!! I hope you get the chance to make some monkey bread soon. Y’all have a great weekend!!!
I call my daughter my little Pooh Bear. My younger sister said she looked like a little baby poodle when she was born then I shortened it to Pooh, then added bear. My son Charles is called ED cause Edward is his middle name. My Daddy called me Louie cause of the sidekick to sheriff Quick Draw McGraw in the cartoon (1959-1962) and we would watch it together sometimes. He gave all 5 of us kids nicknames.
Love your Monkey Bread variation!! Thought I’d share my younger niece thought you make it w/ REAL Monkeys!! She LOVES Monkeys!! So it was also concerned to hear me say I was making it just for her!! My sister had to explain it to her….
RE: Nicknames.. I was known as Marky….. Skeeter by my Dad( who is deceased) and then The Queen or HRH ( by my Brother ,also deceased) my nieces called me Auntie Queen/Queenie b/c I used to cook them dinner & bake (competitively in 4-H) as a young person… And I was the oldest of 4 kids.. So I was drafted as Je Mom!! I miss Dad & Bro calling me those names!!
LOL, I love the innocence of children!!
I started calling my 6-year-old son “Sunshine” so I could sing “You are my Sunshine” to him. I tell him that he’s the only one I sing that song to. My 5-year-old daughter is “Honey Bunny”. I tried to come up with something else, but I couldn’t get away from it. She’s just my Honey Bunny.
I would like to make these for Christmas gifts. Could I give to them uncooked, for them to cook them? Can these be frozen at one point?
Thanks
They could be frozen but need to be fully cooked at the time of preparation. Wrap them really well after you let them cool and then freeze. 🙂
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😉 I just love you Diana!!
I have a very similar recipe from my niece. It includes 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon sugar inside each biscuit packet. It’s called Gorilla Bread because it’s so much better than just Monkey Bread!!