Monkey Bread Recipes

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Here are a variety of Monkey bread recipes for your enjoyment. These are fun breads that the whole family will enjoy. Making these breads (also know as pull-apart bread) is a good way to introduce your kids to the pleasure of baking yeast bread.

Serve these breads warm to guests and let them pick their own irregularly shaped piece. Or slice the loaf if you prefer.

How to make Pull-Apart Bread

These types of bread, also known as bubble bread or pull apart bread, probably get their name from their funny shape. Bubble bread is a handsome and spectacular bread made with yeast dough from which small pieces are pinched or cut, then dipped into melted butter and poppy seeds or currants. These pieces rise in a tube pan to triple their original height and resemble a tall, studded crown.

Cinnamon Bubble Bread

This is an easy cinnamon pull-apart bread. It’s fun and tastes great.

Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread

This cinnamon monkey bread is made with biscuits to make preparation quick and simple.

Fruit and Nut Monkey Bread

Here is an easy Monkey bread recipe topped with fruits and nuts. The dough can be made in the bread machine or by hand which makes this a very versatile recipe.

Herbed Monkey Bread

This recipe makes a wonderful herbed pull-apart bread. The olive oil gives the bread a delicious crisp.

Stacey’s Pull Coffee Ring

This is a rich monkey bread (or bubble bread) and is best consumed with hot, strong coffee, preferably around the kitchen table, with family and friends.