I think that my kids’ favorite meal is breakfast.
Pancakes, cereal, eggs, bacon, biscuits, sausage, fruit cups — you name it, they love it. They’d eat breakfast for every single meal which makes brinner a giant winner at our house 
(see what I did there — I rhymed)
One of my family’s favorite treats is Monkey Bread; I adore Monkey Bread, the butter, the caramelization, the crisp sugar, the soft dough — good gracious, I’m making myself hungry.
Y’all may not realize that you know Monkey bread– it is also known as pull apart bread and then there’s the version my mom makes with a package of caramel pudding mix — baked caramel ring. YUM.
Chances are, if you’ve stayed at my house more than once, I’ve made monkey bread and bacon and fruit and mimosas for you for breakfast.
In my eyes, there’s pretty much nothing wrong with monkey bread — except how long traditional monkey bread takes to bake!!! It can take 40 minutes or more! I am a bit impatient when I’m hungry (do y’all feel me?) So, I decided that there simply MUST be an easier and faster way to make monkey bread.
As it turns out, there is, and — I do believe that I’ve come up with a faster, prettier and I think even tastier version of the giant bundt cake ring version.
These tonguegasmic little individual monkey breads are not only delicious, they’re cute and they make for such a yummy and pretty photograph.
One of the best things about Monkey Bread is that it’s crazy easy to make, requires very few ingredients and it’s kid friendly.
My kids love to shake the dough bites in the sugar and cinnamon — seriously, this can keep them busy for 10 minutes!
Here’s the breakdown: Take 2 cans of 10 count buttermilk biscuits, cut each biscuit into quarters and shake in a bag with 2 C sugar and 2 Tbsp cinnamon, once each quarter of dough is fully covered, put 6 or so dough bites into each muffin cup
Melt 2 sticks of butter, 2 Tbsp vanilla and 1/2 C of brown sugar together, stirring frequently until completely melted and the sugar is dissolved and it’s a golden brown color
Pour into the cups over the cinnamon sugar covered dough bites, you don’t want to completely fill the cups to the top — just about 3/4 of the way
Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes, remove from the oven and turn them out onto a platter — serve them up in cute little ramekins or whatever decorative dishes you have on hand.
See how adorable these are!!! And I promise, they’re 100 times more delicious than they are adorable 
So here y’all are — the adorable, delicious, tonguegasmic individual Monkey Bread recipe. Make these for Christmas morning, birthdays, just because the day ends in Y — whatever, just make these! Everyone will thank you! [/donotprint]
These individual monkey bread servings are perfect hot out of the oven, or 24 hours later. Caramelized bite size pieces of breakfast heaven. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 (10 count) cans of buttermilk biscuits
- 2 C sugar
- 2 Tbsp cinnamon
- 2 sticks of butter
- 2 Tbsp vanilla
- 1/2 C brown sugar
Instructions
- pre-heat your oven to 350 F
- cut each biscuit into quarters
- Put 2 C sugar and 2 Tbsp cinnamon in a bag and mix, add the biscuit quarters and shimmy shimmy shake them until all the quarters are fully coated
- Place 6 or so biscuit quarters in each muffin cup
- Melt 2 sticks butter, 2 Tbsp vanilla and 1/2 C brown sugar over low-medium heat, until fully melted and the sugar has dissolved resulting in a gorgeous golden brown, dark caramel color (stir frequently)
- Pour the butter mixture over the muffin cups until each is about 3/4 filled
- Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for about 25 minutes
- Remove from the oven and immediately turn over onto a platter so that all the ooey gooey caramelized vanilla butter sugary goodness tips out and covers the monkey bread bites in their hot lava caramelized goodness.
- if you have some cute little ramekins or serving dishes, place a monkey bread cup into each one and use a spoon to drizzle more caramelized yumminess over each cup.
These look WONDERFUL! My kids would love these, they love anything in individual mini size. Thanks!
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Great idea! We make ours by just laying each individual quarter of biscuit on a cookie sheet. In fact I just posted about them on MY Food blog! Super quick and yummy.
Great idea for quicker Monkey Bread. Now I think I will make it for DS for tomorrow morning. He leaves for school before 7 a.m., so time is of the essence (and by that I mean I don’t want to get up any earlier than I have to!)
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So gonna have to try this!! 
Thank you for this!!
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The name of the game is fast around here – I cook so much in my muffin pan. Meatloaf, cornbread, cupcakes…all in the name of getting dinner out of the oven quicker. This is a great idea, and one I’m definitely adding to the list! Of course, I’m still working on perfecting a gluten free version, but this is awesome!
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Those look so good…almost sounds like a caramel-ish fake donut. Will have to try when we do brinner next week
These sound delicious – and they are so cute!! Thank you for hosting.
I love this idea! They look amazing
Enjoy your week~
I really thought this was a creative idea! My kids dont like to share so an individual serving sounds like a great idea to me thanks for sharing this.
I just wanted to say, I’m digging your new look.
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That monkey bread looks so yummy! Thanks for hosting the linky!
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These look delicious! My kiddos will LOVE it!!
Yum! I love breakfast foods, too – as well as individual or kid-sized foods. Add in a shorter cooking time, and you’ve definitely got a good thing going on here!
P.S. Love the new look you have up top!
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Oh Rachel, how could you? We are a monkey bread loving family and look what you have done! You have gone and made it even simpler to gobble it up! I love it.
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Thanks for hosting! I love your recipe for the mini monkey breads! Yum!
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Okay. I’ve never had Monkey Bread (don’t throw rotten tomatoes at me for such a crime, please!)…but this looks so easy and delicious…holy cow I’m making these on Christmas Morning. Saving the recipe this very minute!!
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Love these!! I often make a LARGE monkey bread, but I love the idea of tiny ones. Tiny stuff is always cuter, isn’t it?
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You will never know how happy you’ve made me with this idea! I love making monkey bread, and the last time I made it for a party I almost lost a hand while reaching for some (seriously, I think I got 2 pieces of dough and then it was gone). We’re having an “apps and dessert” Christmas party next weekend and these would be perfect! THANK YOU!
Wow, looks fantastic and easy. I really am going to try these tonight!
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My mom was a monkey-bread maker. (She’s still around, but we’re not at her house for breakfast as much as we used to be.
) I think having breakfast for dinner is the key to enjoying some of the best breakfast foods. I need to remember that more often when I’m thinking about what to make for dinner.
My grandmother used to make monkey bread- I loved it.
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these are the only thing that have looked good to me in days with this morning sickness!!
What a yummy recipe! Thanks for sharing and for hosting. Just discovered your blog and am enjoying it
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Totally making these tomorrow! Thank you.
Oh my, I’m in love. This recipe just may end up on the table, Christmas morning.
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These look amazing!! My kids would so love this!! Thanks for sharing. Sure glad I stumbled upon your blog. Thanks for letting me join the party!!
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This is wonderful! The Kids will love these!
Fabulous!!!! Do you think you could bake these right in the little ramekins (I have some that are oven proof)….just a thought!
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ABSOLUTELY!!!
I just don’t have enough and — you still have to flip them upside down so that the gooey caramelized crispy part will be on top instead of the bottom…
but, you could and then just use two forks to turn them inside the ramekins!
I need more ramekins!
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I’ve never thought to make them personalized like this. guess I know what we will be having Christmas morning.
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Monkey bread is our favorite!
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I’ve never heard of monkey bread but have clearly been missing out…so I’m going to have to print out this recipe and maybe even give it a try this weekend. Of course I’ll have to use real biscuit dough because Germans quite possibly have never even heard of biscuits but oh my gosh do these sound awesome!
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This is great! I featured you today on Today’s Top 20!! I’d love if you stopped by!
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Love me some monkey bread! I’m making these for my unit’s Christmas party this year instead of crabbies.
evry thing very very exelant yammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy
These look awesome!!!
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