Monkey bread muffins, small balls of bread dough with a delicious caramelized cinnamon sugar layer. A delightful sticky delicacy. It's a tasty twist on the classic monkey bread.
These muffins are perfectly baked and delicious for breakfast or brunch. These sweet bakes are sure to be a hit with your family and guests. Easy to make with the help of the bread maker (or without). Try it yourself!
So good: Delicious Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe
Monkey bread muffins, airy dough soaked in a butter cinnamon sugar mixture, and baked crispy. You can taste the light structure, creaminess, and cinnamon sugar with every bite. A perfect blend of flavors. Never heard of it?
Which can! It is an American recipe that appeared in magazines in the early 1950s. Since then, it has become a real hit in the United States, where you can buy it at the fairs. It is often eaten there as a sweet snack or dessert. But somehow, the fame has stuck in America.
And that's a shame because it's delicious. That's why I will share the recipe for monkey bread muffins with you (and to make it easy, I use the bread baking machine for the dough).
What do you need for Monkey Bread with Sugar and Cinnamon?
To prepare this Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe, you require the following ingredients. You can find the correct amounts in the recipe card at the bottom of the blog:
Monkey Bread
- Flour: Use regular all-purpose flour for these muffins.
- Sugar: Monkey bread is a sweet bread, and the sugar is to sweeten the bread.
- Yeast: This recipe uses ⅓ oz. 8 grams (2 teaspoons) of instant yeast. If you prefer to use fresh yeast, you require ⅔ oz. (16 grams). If you use dry yeast, you need ⅓ oz. / 8 grams. Note: With fresh and dry yeast, you must first dissolve the yeast in lukewarm milk.
- Salt: Provides a good taste balance.
- Milk: Make the muffins lighter and firmer.
- Water: So that the dough has the right smoothness. Use lukewarm water (about 99 °F (37 °C)).
Cinnamon sugar topping
- Butter: Dip the balls of dough in the melted butter. They make the bread creamy and ensure that the cinnamon sugar sticks.
- Cinnamon: It has a sweet, woody flavor with a hint of lemon. We use it here ground.
- Sugar: By mixing the sugar with cinnamon, you get cinnamon sugar.
How to Prepare Monkey Bread Muffins from Scratch
You can find a printable recipe with a step-by-step description at the bottom of this blog.
- Put the milk, melted butter, and water in the bottom of the bread maker. Sprinkle the flour and sugar on top. You put the yeast in one corner, and in the corner diagonally opposite, you put the salt. Turn on the machine for kneading and first rise.
- Remove the dough from the mold and divide the dough into 60 pieces, which are about the same size. Roll the dough into balls between your palms.
- First, dip each ball in the melted butter and then roll it in the cinnamon sugar. Place in a muffin tin. Fill each muffin tin with five balls (12 muffins).
- Cover the mold with plastic wrap that you have greased and let it rise in a warm place for an hour. Then, bake the muffins in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for 30 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes, and remove the muffins from the tin. Let them cool further on a wire rack.
Tips, Substitutions, and Variations
- Chocoholics: Add four tablespoons of finely chopped dark chocolate to the dough.
- Caramel Sensation: Drizzle caramel over the muffins as they are baked.
- Preparing the night before: Fill the muffin tin with the dough balls. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. The next day, take the plate from the fridge 15 minutes before baking and let them come to room temperature. Now you can bake them.
- Doneness: Check the doneness by piercing the center of the muffin with a skewer. The monkey bread muffins are ready when the skewer comes out clean.
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📖 Recipe
Ingredients
Monkey bread
- 1 cup milk lukewarm
- ⅓ cup water lukewarm
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 3½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons yeast instant
- 1 teaspoon salt
Cinnamon Topping
- ¼ cup butter melted
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
Instructions
Monkey Bread, Preparing with a Bread Baking Machine
- Place the milk, melted butter and water in the bowl of the bread maker. Divide flour and sugar on it. Put the yeast in one corner and the sugar in the opposite corner.1 cup milk, ⅓ cup water, 2 tablespoons butter, 3½ cup all-purpose flour, ¼ cup sugar, 2 teaspoons yeast, 1 teaspoon salt
- Turn on the bread maker on the kneading setting including rising. Continue at *.
Monkey Bread, Preparing with an electric mixer
- Put the flour, sugar, yeast and salt in a bowl and stir with a fork to combine.3½ cup all-purpose flour, ¼ cup sugar, 2 teaspoons yeast, 1 teaspoon salt
- Pour the melted butter, milk, and water with the flour mixture and mix with a mixer with dough hooks 10-15 minutes until you have a smooth elastic dough.1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter, ⅓ cup water
- Brush a bowl with oil and place the dough in it.
- Turn the dough over once and cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and then with plastic wrap.
- Let it rise for 1 hour in a warm place until the dough is doubled.
Preparing Monkey Bread Muffins
- Grease a cupcake tin (12 cupcakes holes) with oil.
- Pour the melted butter in a bowl. Take a second bowl and mix the sugar and cinnamon.¼ cup butter, ½ cup sugar, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Press the dough into a lap and divide the dough into 60 pieces.
- Roll each piece into a ball, dip in the melted butter, and then roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Place in a muffin tin. Repeat for all pieces of dough. Divide the balls over the muffin shape, so there are five balls per shape.
- Cover the mold with a damp cloth and then with plastic wrap and let rise again for an hour in a warm place.
- After 30 minutes, preheat the oven to
350 °F or 320 °F - Place the muffins in the oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool slightly on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
- Remove the muffins from the tin with a knife and leave to cool on the wire rack.
Notes
- Chocoholics: Add four tablespoons of finely chopped dark chocolate to the dough.
- Caramel Sensation: Drizzle caramel over the muffins as they are baked.
- Room temperature: Store the muffins in an airtight container for two days.
- Freezer: Put the muffins in a freezer box and keep them in the freezer for up to one month. Let thaw at room temperature.
- Reheat: To make the muffins taste good again, heat them in the oven at 350 °F (180 °C) until they are warm. You can certainly use the Air fryer for this as well.
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