Easy Crescent Roll Monkey Bread Recipe
A delicious canned crescent roll monkey bread topped with pecans and a divine caramel sauce.
Perfect Holiday Breakfast Idea
While most people may be thinking about what to serve for holiday lunches and dinner, I canโt stop contemplating what Iโll be whipping up for breakfast on Christmas morning. It has to be special, memorable, and one that the family will ask for year after year.
What is Monkey Bread?
Monkey bread is a sweet, pull-apart bread made from bite-sized pieces of dough that are typically coated in sugar, cinnamon, and other sweet ingredients like caramel, chocolate, or nuts. These dough pieces are often layered in a bundt pan or a baking dish and baked until they become golden and sticky.
When the bread is done, itโs typically inverted onto a serving platter, so the caramelized, gooey topping drizzles down the sides, creating a delicious, finger-friendly treat. Itโs called that because of the way people eat it, picking apart the small, individual pieces, just like monkeys picking at their food. This sweet bread can be enjoyed as a dessert, a sweet breakfast, or a delightful snack.
Making Monkey Bread with Crescent Rolls
So, for this holiday Iโm going with a delicious caramel monkey bread topped with pecans, which is one of our favorites!
Delicious Caramel Sauce Makes All the Difference
Oh my goodness, look at it!
The caramel sauce in this Monkey Bread recipe is heavenly because it adds a rich, sweet, and indulgent layer to every bite. It infuses the bread with a luxurious sweetness and a buttery, caramelized flavor thatโs hard to resist. Itโs the secret ingredient that takes your Monkey Bread from ordinary to extraordinary, making it a truly divine treat.
The best part of this recipe is the canned crescent rolls because it saved me a ton of time when putting this sweet breakfast dish together.
Letโs get on with the recipe, shall we?
Ingredients for Crescent Roll Monkey Bread
Butter: A creamy, fatty ingredient that adds a rich, buttery flavor to the monkey bread.
Chopped Pecans or Walnuts: These are small pieces of nuts that provide a delightful crunch and nutty taste to your monkey bread.
Light Brown Sugar: A sweet, tan-colored sugar with a caramel-like taste, used to sweeten and caramelize the bread.
Water: A simple liquid used in the recipe.
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls: These are pre-made crescent roll dough from Pillsbury, which makes the monkey bread easy to assemble.
Itโs amazing what canned crescent rolls can create, amirite?
Get and Print the Recipe
Easy Crescent Roll Monkey Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts nuts can be excluded if you wish
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 2 - 8- oz cans Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Instructions
- Preheat oven toย 350 degrees.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan, then coverย theย bottom and sides of aย bundt pan with 2 tbsp of the melted butter.
- Sprinkle pan with 3 tbsp of nuts. Add remaining nuts, brown sugar and water to remaining melted butter in saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil. Boil 1 minute while stirring constantly, then remove from heat and set aside.
- Remove dough from cans, butย do not unroll. Cut each long roll into 8 slices. Arrange 8 of the slices, cut side down, in the bundtย pan.ย Spoon half of brown sugar mixture over doughย and then place remaining 8 dough slices alternately over bottom layer. Spoon remaining brown sugar mixture over slices.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until deep golden brown. Let cool 3 minutes in panย before inverting onto serving platter or waxed paper.
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16 Comments on “Easy Crescent Roll Monkey Bread Recipe”
Thank you so much for this delicious dairy free recipe!
My pleasure!
I couldn’t get canned biscuits to make my usual Monkey Bread (which is heavenly). Tried this and was very disappointed. The main problem is the brown sugar sauce, which is watery while you’re making it and turns to cement in the oven. Oh well.
The brown sugar sauce should not be watering at all. Did you boil it for 1 minute while stirring? It should be thick if you do.
It’s so yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I love this recipe! Thank you so much!
I am so sorry i didnโt find this recipe firstย
Itโs sounds perfect!ย
Am saving for the next time! Thank you
So sorry I didnโt see this recipe first, itโs perfect, very easy!
Fabulous!
This is an old Pillsbury bakeoff recipe. Iโve been making it at least 20 years. Itโs fast, easy, and delicious.
It’s so good!
Easy to follow and delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Can you make it a couple days ahead and bake that morning?
Can you make it a couple days ahead and bake that morning?
I would maybe make it the day before, but two days may be pushing it. ๐
So happy you liked it!