King Cake Monkey Bread

King Cake Monkey Bread is a fun spin off of a New Orleans classic. It’s super simple to make and it incorporates the same flavors in King Cake, transforming them into a pull apart dessert everyone will love.

KEY Ingredients

– Cinnamon rolls – Cream cheese – Light brown sugar – Butter – Ground cinnamon – Pure vanilla extract – Half and half – Eggs – Purple, green and yellow edible glitter or sanding sugar See Full List

This recipe uses regular, not jumbo, cinnamon rolls.

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Be aware that it puffs up considerably while baking, and if the liquid isn’t evenly distributed it could cook over a bit. A tube pan gives plenty of room for the monkey bread to grow.

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This variation of monkey bread isn’t made in the normal fashion of coating the cinnamon roll quarters in sugar. Due to this, it can also be sliced into beautiful pieces just like a cake.

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