Easy King Cake Monkey Bread Recipes

KING CAKE MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a tube pan with cooking spray.
• Separate cinnamon rolls, saving icing to use later. Cut each cinnamon roll into four pieces. Place cinnamon roll pieces in tube pan.
• Beat together cream cheese and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and milk. Mix until combined. Pour cream cheese mixture over cinnamon rolls.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes. After baking, let pan cool 10 minutes.
• Turn baked monkey bread out on plate and ice with cinnamon roll icing. Decorate with purple, yellow, and green sanding sugar.

EASY KING CAKE MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• To make King Cake Monkey Bread, start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and spraying the inside of a bundt pan with non-stick spray.
• Next, remove the biscuits from their tubes and cut each biscuit in half and then in half again so you have four pieces from each biscuit. In a small bowl combine brown sugar, pecans, vanilla extract, pecan pieces and a dash of salt. In a separate bowl, add the melted butter. Start by taking one piece of biscuit, dipping it in the melted butter and then rolling it through the brown sugar mixture. Lay in the bottom of the bundt pan and repeat until you have used up all of your biscuits. About half way through placing your biscuit pieces, add the plastic baby in your monkey bread and keep placing the biscuits around it.
• Once you have used up your biscuits, bake for 40 - 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 15 minutes before running a butter knife around the outside of the monkey bread. Place a plate upside down on the top (bottom) of the bundt pan and firmly holding both, flip both the plate and the pan upside down so that your top is now your bottom. Give the pan a little shimmy and your King Cake Monkey Bread should slide right out. Let cool completely.
• Once cool, add sifted powdered sugar, milk and vanilla to a medium sized bowl and using an electric mixer, beat until well combined. Drizzle the glaze over your monkey bread and decorate with yellow, green and purple sprinkles or sanding sugar. Serve immediately. Leftovers can be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

MONKEY BREAD I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube/Bundt® pan.
• Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a plastic bag. Cut biscuits into quarters. Shake 6 to 8 biscuit pieces in the sugar cinnamon mix. Arrange pieces in the bottom of the prepared pan. Continue until all biscuits are coated and placed in pan. If using nuts and raisins, arrange them in and among the biscuit pieces as you go along.
• In a small saucepan, melt the margarine with the brown sugar over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over the biscuits.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Do not cut! The bread just pulls apart.

SUPER EASY MARDI GRAS KING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Open the cans of sweet roll dough and unroll the dough from each can into 3 strands. Working on a clean surface, place 3 dough strands side by side and gather them together to make one large strand. Fold this in half, and roll slightly to make a fat log. Repeat steps with the remaining dough. Place each log on the prepared baking sheet and shape to make a ring, overlapping the ends and pinching them together to make a complete circle. Pat the dough into shape as necessary to make the ring even in size all the way around. Cover loosely with foil.
• Bake in preheated oven until firm to the touch and golden brown, 50 to 60 minutes. Check often for doneness so the ring doesn't overbake. Place on a wire rack and cool completely.
• Place the cake ring on a serving plate. Cut a slit along the inside of the ring and insert a small plastic baby, pushing it far enough into the cake to be hidden from view.
• Divide the frosting evenly between 4 bowls. Stir 1 tablespoon of milk into each bowl to thin the frosting. Use the frosting in one bowl to drizzle over the cooled cake. To the remaining three bowls of frosting, stir yellow food coloring into one and green into another. Stir the red and blue food colorings together with the frosting in a third bowl to make purple frosting. Drizzle the cake with yellow, green, and purple frostings in any desired pattern. Dust the cake with multi-colored sprinkles and decorate with beads, additional plastic babies, curly ribbon, and other festive trinkets.