Cream Cheese Monkey Bread

This warm, delicious pull-apart monkey bread is stuffed with cream cheese. Full of warm cinnamon and brown sugar, you will be sure to swoon for this breakfast treat! Step-by-step photos teach you how to bake this easy cream cheese monkey bread.

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Warm Gooey Sweet Bread stuffed with Cream Cheese? HELLO! Can I have some NOW! I waited to make this recipe because I just knew it would be AMAZING! And as much as I overload on sugar every single day I knew this would make a large portion and I would end up eating it all. I would happily do it but I am trying to be "healthy" 🙁 

So a few weeks ago for my birthday, I went to Glen Ivy Hot Springs with some of my best friends. There were 10 of us, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make this! I got up early and prepared it before all the girls came over It smelled amazing in the oven and took all of 10 minutes to prepare. 

Once we dug in we couldn't stop it was so scrumptious! And very nice because you could easily break off a ball or two of dough stuffed with cream cheese! The cream cheese really does make everything better 🙂 

Let's get to the recipe.

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Ingredients

You'll need:

• Cream Cheese. Your cream cheese should be cold from the fridge. Don't let it sit out. After you cut the cream cheese place it in the freezer to stay cold while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
• Granulated Sugar and Light Brown Sugar. I like a combination of both white and brown sugar.
• Ground Cinnamon. This warm spice gives great flavor to the monkey bread. Gives you that glorious cinnamon roll- esque flavor that we all love.
• Salted Butter. Since there is lots of sugar involved I like to use salted butter, but you could use unsalted butter too. Your butter just needs to be melted.
• Pure Vanilla Extract. The warm flavor of vanilla pairs beautifully.
• Refrigerated Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits. You'll just cut the biscuits in half. If you wanted you could make smaller pieces but then you'll have to cut the cream cheese into smaller chunks or use more.

This warm and sweet treat is perfect for Christmas morning, dessert for breakfast yes please!

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Instructions

Using non-stick cooking spray grease a large 10- 12-cup bundt pan or a fluted tube pan, making sure to get into all the nooks and crannies, and preheat the oven to 350F/180C. You could always use two loaf pans and reduce the baking time slightly if you don't have a bundt pan.

In a large bowl mix together the sugars and cinnamon. 

In a liquid measuring cup with a pour spout combine the melted butter and vanilla extract. 

Cut all of the biscuits in half then use your clean hands to press the biscuit into a flat disc. 

Cut the cream cheese block into 4 strips lengthwise then into 8 sections short-wise to create 32 cubes of cream cheese. 

Take one biscuit round and place a cube of cream cheese in the center then wrap the dough over to fully seal the cream cheese inside the biscuit dough.

Place the first 16 cream cheese biscuit pieces into the prepared pan. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture over the dough balls then evenly pour half of the butter mixture, this is going to make the best sweet sauce for the bread to bake it. Adding some crushed walnuts or pecans here would be a great addition.

Add the remaining monkey bread bites on top then sprinkle the remaining sugar and finally pour on the remaining butter.  

Bake for 40-45 minutes, the top should be very golden brown. If you use an instant-read thermometer the temperature should be at least 190F/88C.

Let cool for ten minutes then place a serving platter down on top of the bundt pan and invert onto the platter. This cream cheese monkey bread is best eaten immediately.

Store any leftovers in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. 

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Recipe adapted from: PipandEbby

This post was first published on April 20, 2012 as of April 3, 2022 the post has been updated.