Tag: Monkey Bread

Maple Cream Cheese Monkey Bread

Maple Cream Cheese Monkey Bread – Mini Size: If you want a yummy, buttery, gooey pull-apart bread that you can have all to yourself, bake this best-ever recipe. All you need is milk, instant yeast, cream cheese, an egg, and a few other pantry staples. You bake them in cupcake or muffin tins…so you get single servings… and no sharing required. Ha! Now is when you can hear my hushed, evil voice saying: mine mine mine! All mine!

Maple Cream Cheese Monkey Bread Front View

Recipe credit goes to Kaitlyn Wiener who created these for a best-ever bread baking contest at the Minnesota State Fair (Fleischmann’s Yeast, 2013).

Maple Cream Cheese Monkey Bread

Monkey Bread Made Easy

To get rolling on this maple cream cheese monkey bread recipe, you make a quick-rise, plump dough, cut it into squares, then wrap a cream cheese/maple syrup filling inside. Do a quick toss in a bowl of cinnamon and sugar. Drop them into muffin tins, top them with a butter/maple syrup sauce, and pop them in the oven! So darn simple, and so completely delish.

I really love the ease of working with instant yeast like Fleischmann’s RapidRise yeast. It’s fast acting and consistent (always reliable.) RapidRise yeast also works great in coffee cakes. Watch for one of those, another state fair winner, coming in the next couple weeks.

My niece Crystal and fellow Blue Ribbon Foodie was the lucky one to recreate these mini maple cream cheese monkey breads. She gave it two thumbs up and had this to say:

  • This recipe was fun to make and a great chance to get kids involved because of the simplicity of the steps.
  • The cream cheese filling adds a nice tang, especially when paired with the frosting and the sauce.
  • If by chance they don’t all disappear, the mini monkey breads do reheat well, however I recommend eating them right away when the bread most soft and light, fresh out of the oven. Enjoy!

By the way, if you’re looking for a great full size monkey bread to make, try this pumpkin pull apart bread.

Crystal and Cyndi

 

Pumpkin Pull-Apart Monkey Bread

This delicious Pumpkin Pull-Apart Bread is “monkey bread” at its finest. The concept:  plump and delicious dough, cut into pieces, rolled in sugar, cinnamon and butter, and baked all together in layers of gooey goodness. You pull it off in pieces and enjoy. Thus the “pull-apart” in its title. This bread is SO decadent and SO delightful.

If you’ve got a passion for pumpkin, indulge in this amazing dessert. You are going to want to make it again and again.

This Pumpkin Pull-Apart Bread creation is a Blue Ribbon Group original recipe. We used several blue ribbon winning recipes as inspiration. Crystal, my niece and fellow Blue Ribbon Foodie tested and tweaked the recipe, and added a pumpkin pie spiced icing, a nice touch, especially for fall baking season. I can’t wait to take my turn with it and use a favorite pumpkin pie spice.

We also love this mini recipe, with different flavors. The portions are perfect. If you are not good at sharing, that recipe is for you,

Bake it great!

-Cyndi

p.s. Looking for more pumpkin recipes? Search for “pumpkin” our site and you’ll find many. Be sure to bake this State Fair of Texas winner, another crowd pleaser.