Bacon Maple Monkey Bread is gooey and sweet with salty pieces of bacon throughout. Made with refrigerated biscuit dough, this easy to make Monkey Bread has a delicious mix of sweet and salty. It is wonderful for holidays and brunches.
What Is Monkey Bread?
Monkey Bread is a big favorite at our house. If you’ve never made it before, it’s made from small balls of dough (refrigerated biscuits in this case), usually coated in cinnamon sugar and baked together in a Bundt cake pan.
It can be assembled ahead of time, making it perfect for holiday entertaining.
For this Bacon Maple Monkey Bread, each biscuit gets quartered and dipped in bacon grease. (Because if you’re going to fry up some bacon, you’d might as well use the grease.)
How To Make Bacon Monkey Bread
Then they are coated in cinnamon-sugar and layered in a well-greased Bundt pan with crumbled bacon. Lots of crumbled bacon. 🙂
A mixture of melted butter, brown sugar, and maple syrup gets poured over the top. This mixture seeps into all the nooks and crannies and makes the baked Monkey Bread so gooey, sweet, and delicious.
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This monkey bread can be served for dessert, breakfast, or brunch. Monkey Bread on Christmas Day is a tradition for my family. We always munch on it while opening presents.
Storage
I recommend storing this Monkey Bread in the refrigerator because of the bacon. It will keep in an airtight container for 3 days. Reheat in the microwave to warm it.
Recipe Tip
Be sure to use real maple syrup for best flavor.
More Monkey Bread Recipes
- Mardi Gras Monkey Bread
- Cookies and Cream Monkey Bread
- Easy Monkey Bread
- Jalapeno Popper Monkey Bread
- Chocolate-Caramel Monkey Bread
- Slow Cooker Monkey Bread
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Bacon Maple Monkey Bread
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10-12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled and bacon grease reserved
- 1/2 cup butter, (1 stick)
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 (16-ounce) tubes refrigerated biscuit dough, each biscuit cut into quarters
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a bundt pan.
- In a small saucepan, heat butter over medium-low until it melts. Add brown sugar and cook and stir until it dissolves. Stir in maple syrup and set aside.
- Combine sugar and cinnamon in a large ziptop bag.
- Scatter about 1/3 of bacon in bottom of bundt pan.
- Dip each biscuit piece in bacon grease (just one side is fine) and then place in ziptop bag and shake in sugar mixture. Only do about 6-8 pieces at a time.
- Place half of sugar-coated pieces in Bundt pan and then scatter 1/2 the remaining bacon on top.
- Place the rest of the biscuit pieces in the bundt pan and scatter remaining bacon on top.
- Slowly drizzle melted butter mixture on top, evenly distributing it.
- Place pan in oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes.
- Let cool in pan for 10 minutes and then invert onto a serving dish. Note: let monkey bread cool too long before removing it from pan and it will stick.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Do you have to use pure maple syrup or can you substitute pancake syrup if needed ?
I make this all the time and sub the biscuits for cinnamon rolls. That thing is gone before it even cools. So good.
I may even drizzle just a little of the icing from the cinnamon rolls on top. LoL
This recipe is so delicious!!!! I brought it to an Easter brunch and it was gone in 10 minutes! This year, I’ve been asked to bring two 🙂
Mmmmmm…..yum. This looks totally amazing. I’m just starring at the screen looking at how delicious they look.
Oh my gosh this looks so good! I am over here drooling over this dish right now. I am all over this. I can’t even stop starring.
Made it this morning, it was delicious! Also added about 1/2 cup of pecans I wanted to use up. I had to portion the leftovers into containers so I didn’t eat it all
Oh. Em. Gee. WHY have I never thought to add bacon to my monkey bread!? This looks too good!
Mmmmm that looks delish! Can’t wait to try it!
Wow! This is an amazing monkey bread! Looks irresistible.
So I’m a total stalker, I guess, because I am sharing this recipe and it’s the second one of yours that I’ve scheduled to share this week! You’re knocking out of the park with all these delicious recipes. 🙂
Ah, thanks so much Mary!!