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Gingerbread Monkey Bread

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Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

You can’t beat the smell of warm gingerbread, especially in the winter. It’s such a warm and cozy smell, especially fresh out of the oven. And that gingerbread smell gets even better when it’s swimming around in a bundt pan of monkey bread!

Tasty Kitchen member Jeni really knocks it out of the park with this Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Carboholics will rejoice in this gooey, gingered creation. Try to stop at one doughy roll, I dare you.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

The list of must-haves for this recipe is pretty simple. There is no shame in shortcuts, and the canned biscuits totally save you precious time. The rest of the ingredients include sugar, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, molasses, along with a little butter, sugar, and brown sugar for the caramel sauce.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

In a bowl, stir together the sugar, and spices whisking together until evenly mixed. For easy coating of the biscuit rolls, I added the sugar mix to a plastic zip top bag to shake them around.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

Next, pop a can of biscuits, try not to jump too high, and cut each biscuit into four or five pieces. Use a pair of clean kitchen shears to move through them quickly.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

Toss a few of the cut biscuits into the sugar-filled bag and toss to coat each piece thoroughly. Then add them to a bundt pan. Set the bundt pan aside.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

For the caramel sauce, combine the brown sugar, butter, molasses, milk, and pumpkin pie spice in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil until all the sugar is melted completely.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

Pour the caramel mix over the coated biscuits in the bundt pan and bake immediately. Bake in a 350ºF oven for 20–25 minutes. Once it’s out of the oven, ya know, try to resist the immediate urge to face plant right into the pan. Let it cool for a few minutes before turning out onto a serving dish.

 
 
 
Tasty Kitchen Blog: Gingerbread Monkey Bread. Guest post by Megan Keno of Wanna Be a Country Cleaver, recipe submitted by TK member Jeni K.

Then, devour.

 
 

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Difficulty: Easy

Servings: 10

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My husband loves monkey bread, but he wanted something with a holiday flair. Easy, spiced-up monkey bread to satisfy any sweet tooth!

Ingredients

  • 2-½ cups Brown Sugar, Divided
  • 1 cup White Sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons Pumpkin Pie Spice, Divided
  • 1 teaspoon Cloves
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Ginger
  • 32 ounces, weight Pillsbury Reduced Fat Refrigerated Biscuit Dough
  • 1 stick Butter
  • 2 Tablespoons Molasses
  • ¼ cups Milk

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Mix 1/2 cup brown sugar, white sugar, 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice, cloves and ginger in a large Ziplock bag. Tear each biscuit into 4 or 5 pieces and add pieces into the Ziplock bag. Seal the bag and shake to coat all pieces. Place sugared dough into a greased bundt pan.

In a medium-sized saucepan, bring butter, molasses, milk, remaining 2 cups of brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice to a boil. Pour brown sugar mix over the biscuit dough in the bundt pan. Bake for 20–25 minutes.

Note: If your bundt pan seems a bit full, place a piece of foil under it in the oven so the brown sugar doesn’t boil over.

 
 
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Megan Keno is the writer and photographer of Country Cleaver, a food blog fueled by Nutella and images of June Cleaver—if June wore cowboy boots and flannel, that is. A self-proclaimed country bum, Megan creates from-scratch recipes that range from simple to sublime and how-to’s to build your cooking repertoire. But she couldn’t do it without the help of her trusty—and furry—sous chef, Huckleberry. He’s a world class floor cleaner.

 
 

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Donna y on 3.4.2015

This monkey bread is so good and gooey and better with chopped pecans it’s a lot easier with this new recipe then mine old one.
Thank you so much for the wonderful recipes

Adhar Budhraja on 2.19.2015

I like tips share by you and i will surely try these tips to make monkey bread.

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Terri @ that's some good cookin' on 2.17.2015

This is canned biscuit nirvana. I want it right now! In my personal, private, biased opinion, there are no carbs more enjoyable than bread products bathed in sugar products.

Abby W. on 2.17.2015

This monkey bread looks so good! My husband claims to not like monkey bread, but I bet this would change his mind!

Abby
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Janet Martin on 2.17.2015

I’m speechless! WOW!!!