I promised you lots of purple, green, and yellow sprinkles, and today, I’m delivering. If you’re not as jazzed about Mardi Gras as I am, then you can certainly leave off the sprinkles. They’re more for panache than actual flavor. Monkey bread recipe is the first recipe I ever made by myself. I made it in home economics in middle school. In Texas, everyone (boys and girls) takes home ec. one semester, and then wood working the next semester. If I remember correctly, everyone liked home ec. better—even the boys. The reason is probably this monkey bread. Would you rather have splinters or monkey bread? The answer to that question is always sugar, isn’t it? This might be the world’s most perfect recipe: biscuits doused in butter, sugar and cinnamon, and then baked. You can’t mess this one up.
Monkey bread recipe:
However, most of the time, a monkey bread recipe calls for canned biscuit dough, and it makes a giant bundt pan-sized dessert. It’s a delicious dessert, or even a great make-ahead brunch item, but I want to cure the monkey bread craving even without canned biscuits. If I cure a craving for something sweet and avoid making a giant batch, it’s even better for me! This recipe makes 4 monkey bread muffins in a muffin pan instead of a bundt pan. This is the small muffin pan I use now that has 6 cups. Personally, I can eat two muffins on my own, and my husband doesn’t have any problems with the other two, ever. I made homemade biscuit dough for this monkey bread recipe. There’s hardly a store-bought biscuit package small enough to serve two, but also: homemade is always better, always. You can quote me on that. I rolled the dough into twelve balls, each slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, doused them in cinnamon sugar, and popped 3 into each muffin cup. The recipe for the brown sugar butter sauce came to me in a dream one night, and it was destiny that they topped these cinnamon biscuit bites.
This little muffin guy, I just want to eat him right up:
I hope you enjoy these! Do you want to see more purple, green and yellow sprinkles on desserts this week? There is only one right answer, and I have King Cake Donut Bars, a small batch of homemade beignets, and bananas foster cakes.
*See below for a small muffin pan.
Wilton 6-cup Muffin Pan
