Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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.