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    Monkey Bread Muffins with 5 Minute Chocolate Sauce

    Published: Mar 18, 2013 · Modified: Jun 5, 2019 by Anna 38 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Monkey Bread Muffins CrunchyCreamySweet.com

     This chocolate sauce drizzle was totally not planned. All I wanted to do is monkey bread muffins for my kiddos. It's been on my to-bake list for a while and as soon as my new supply of yeast arrived, I was whipping up the dough in no time.

    I love baking with yeast. There is something about the dough, the technique, the whole process. Over the time I have learned many tricks to make every project involving yeast work.

    Monkey Bread Muffins CrunchyCreamySweet.com

     These muffins are so fun to make and even more fun to eat! We are talking about rolling little balls of the dough in butter and cinnamon sugar. Each muffin is unique in shape but all are delicious!

    I may have had a hard time explaining why is it called monkey bread but we all had a lot of fun making it.

    And then I just couldn't help myself but I had to figure out a way to involve chocolate in this whole fun project. Enter my 5 Minute Chocolate Sauce. I don't think I have ever shared it's recipe here on Crunchy Creamy Sweet, but it's my all-time favorite and I have been making it for over a decade now. It always works and most likely you have all the ingredients on hand.

    Monkey Bread Muffins CrunchyCreamySweet.com

    Even my Hubby likes it. And he is not really a chocolate fan. I had to hurry up with shooting the photos because he kept slurping the sauce! 🙂 I highly recommend printing out this sauce recipe. It will come in handy!

    5 Minute Chocolate Sauce Recipe

    Monkey Bread Muffins

    Author: Anna
    Your favorite monkey bread in mini form. Monkey Bread Muffins are not only fun to make but even more fun to eat! Yeast dough recipe: CrunchyCreamySweet.com original.
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    Prep Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins
    Cook Time 25 minutes mins
    Total Time 1 hour hr 55 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 muffins
    Calories 319 kcal

    Ingredients
     
     

    for the monkey bread dough:

    • 1 c warm milk about 100 degrees F
    • ½ c warm water about 100 degrees F
    • ¼ c granulated sugar
    • 2 ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast I used Red Star brand, 1 packet
    • 2 tablespoon oil canola or vegetable
    • 3 c all-purpose flour

    for the sugar coating:

    • ¾ c unsalted butter melted
    • ½ c packed light brown sugar
    • ¼ c granulated sugar
    • 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat your oven to 220 degrees.
    • Grease a large mixing bowl with a cooking oil. Set aside.
    • In a large mixing bowl of a stand mixer, combine water, milk and sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves. Sprinkle yeast over the top and stir 3 to 4 times. Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
    • Turn the mixer (fitted with a dough hook attachment) on on low speed and start adding flour, ½ c at a time. When there is about 1 cup of flour left to be added, pour the oil into the dough and wait till it's all combined and the dough is smoother and shiny.
    • Add the remaining flour.
    • Increase the speed to medium and knead the dough until it starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
    • Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a ball. Place in greased bowl and cover with a kitchen towel.
    • By now, your oven should be preheated to 200 degrees. Turn it off. Place the covered bowl with dough in the turned-off oven and close the door. Let rise until it doubles in size, about 30 to 40 minutes.
    • Remove the bowl with dough from the oven.
    • Punch down the dough to release the air.
    • Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Now you can cut the dough in half and each half in half and so on until you have as many pieces as you can a size of a quarter, or you can simply tear off teaspoon size pieces of the dough from the whole ball. It's fun for the kids to do it that way.
    • Roll each piece of dough between your palms to form little balls. Dip each ball in melted (cooled to room temperature) butter and shake off the excess. Then roll each piece in cinnamon sugar ad place in muffin pan cavity. Use 5 balls of dough per muffin.
    • When all cavities are filled, cover the pan with kitchen towel and let sit for 15 to 20 minutes.
    • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
    • When muffins have risen and are all puffed up, place the pan in the preheated oven.
    • bake muffins for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
    • Let cool in the pan for 3 to 5 minutes and carefully transfer onto a plate.
    • Cool to room temperature before drizzling the sauce over the top.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 32mg | Sodium: 14mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 390IU | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 1.6mg
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     It's so fun to dip the monkey bread muffin pieces in this sauce. Oh, and it's best when still slightly warm. The chocolate flavor comes purely from the cocoa powder so use your favorite. Just don't blame me for licking the bowl clean! 🙂

    5 Minute Chocolate Sauce CrunchyCreamySweet.com

     Now for the monkey bread muffins recipe. I have my favorite basic yeast dough that I adapt to my needs (savory or sweet) and this is one of it's versions.

    The cinnamon sugar mixture coating depends on if you want the muffins sticky or just slightly coated and sugary. I tried both ways and it was hard to favor one over the other. I say, coat the dough pieces generously if you want almost caramel-like sticky coating or just slightly for a sugary crunchy coating. Do not skip it though as it is a binder of all the pieces that create each muffin.

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    1. Yvonne @ bitter baker says

      March 22, 2013 at 8:34 pm

      These look ah-maaa-zing!! I wanna make these really bad now. Sounds like a lot of fun! And I like to play with my food 🙂

      Reply
    2. marcie @ flavor the moments says

      March 21, 2013 at 6:41 pm

      I rarely make anything with yeast....I need to change that, and have been wanting to make monkey bread. I love the muffin size! I'm so glad you shared this 5 minute chocolate sauce, because I don't always have ganache in the fridge and melting chocolate is just a pain. I'll use this!

      Reply
    3. curryandcomfort says

      March 20, 2013 at 7:43 pm

      Both recipes look fantastic.... both together... simply amazing. YUM!

      Reply
    4. Kelly Senyei | Just a Taste says

      March 20, 2013 at 9:59 am

      Oh. My. Sweet. Lard. I literally can't describe how hungry your photographs make me. This is on another level!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 20, 2013 at 5:42 pm

        lol Thanks so much, Kelly! Means a lot coming from you! xo

        Reply
    5. wearenotmartha says

      March 20, 2013 at 8:40 am

      I've had monkey bread on my must-make list forever now. Now I'm going to need to make it with chocolate sauce!! This looks SO good 🙂

      Sues

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 20, 2013 at 5:42 pm

        Yes, please do! And let me know what you think! Thanks, Sues!

        Reply
    6. JensFavoriteCookies says

      March 19, 2013 at 2:55 pm

      I don't love baking with yeast. But I do love monkey bread. I love this idea with the chocolate sauce!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 8:22 pm

        Thanks, Jen!

        Reply
    7. Amanda @ Once Upon a Recipe says

      March 19, 2013 at 1:43 pm

      Yum, I'll take two please! 🙂

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 8:22 pm

        Only two? 🙂 Thanks, Amanda!

        Reply
    8. Valerie says

      March 19, 2013 at 9:16 am

      I've always been curious about the name too! Although I'm sure that by the time bite into these muffins, name origins won't matter much anymore. Yum!!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:54 am

        It's crazy good! 🙂 Thanks, Valerie!

        Reply
    9. Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious says

      March 19, 2013 at 8:58 am

      AMAZING! Can you please send me about a dozen of these? I'll pay for shipping 🙂

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:53 am

        Right away! 🙂 Thanks, Chung-Ah!

        Reply
    10. Emily Morris says

      March 19, 2013 at 5:48 am

      Not sure if I am more excited about the muffins or the sauce. Either way I am super excited.

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:53 am

        lol Thanks, Emily!

        Reply
    11. Rosie @ Blueberry Kitchen says

      March 19, 2013 at 5:10 am

      Your muffins look so good and I love the sound of the 5 minute chocolate sauce recipe - definitely going to be giving that one a try!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:52 am

        Yay! LMK what you think about it! Thanks, Rosie!

        Reply
    12. Nancy says

      March 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm

      I adore monkey bread. The more sugar cinnamon the better, in my opinion. And you just had to up the ante and make this even more irresistible by drizzling it with chocolate sauce!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:51 am

        lol I know, I'm crazy... 🙂 For chocolate! Thanks, Nancy!

        Reply
    13. Colette says

      March 18, 2013 at 2:48 pm

      Gorgeous, Anna. I love the sugar coating and that chocolate sauce!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 19, 2013 at 10:50 am

        Thanks, Colette!

        Reply
    14. domesticfits says

      March 18, 2013 at 12:28 pm

      I don't understand the words, "not really a chocolate fan" What the heck? But my husband doesn't like berries or avocados, can you believe that? But this he would go nuts over. Gorgeous photos too!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 18, 2013 at 3:32 pm

        The only chocolate he will take is dark with almonds. Men... Thanks, Jackie! 🙂

        Reply
    15. Jessica says

      March 18, 2013 at 11:24 am

      We love monkey. . .love that you made it into muffins!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 18, 2013 at 2:59 pm

        Thanks, Jessica!

        Reply
    16. Savory Simple says

      March 18, 2013 at 7:53 am

      I want this for breakfast!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 18, 2013 at 11:09 am

        🙂 Thanks, Jen!

        Reply
    17. Averie Cooks says

      March 18, 2013 at 6:48 am

      I give you big props for making YEASTED muffins. I have seen yeast breads, cakes, donuts, etc but I dont ever think Ive seen a muffin quite like this. They're gorgeous & so is the choc sauce!

      Reply
      • CrunchyCreamySw says

        March 18, 2013 at 11:09 am

        I love working with yeast! These just had to happen! 🙂 Thanks, Averie!

        Reply

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