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Calling all chocolate and peanut butter lovers! Prepare to have your taste buds do a backflip with this viral sensation: Peanut Butter Cup Monkey Bread. It’s the perfect marriage of warm, gooey pull-apart bread and the iconic Reese’s flavor combo, guaranteed to disappear in minutes (trust us, we’ve tried!).
We love a good monkey bread in our house, so when the idea came up to make a Reese’s monkey bread, it was a total game changer. After all, peanut butter and chocolate are one of my favorite flavor combinations.
This decadent and delicious Peanut Butter Cup Monkey Bread is an easy monkey bread recipe that’s a perfect Sunday morning breakfast, or crowd pleaser dessert.
You are going to love this Reese’s monkey bread! Each bite bursts with the classic peanut butter and chocolate combo. You’ll get a delightful textural contrast between the fluffy dough and the creamy peanut butter filling.
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Ingredients in Peanut Butter Cups Monkey Bread
- Sugar: white granulated sugar
- Cinnamon
- Buscuit Dough: refrigerated, canned biscuit dough
- Peanut Butter: smooth peanut butter
- Chocolate Chips: semi sweet
- Butter
How to Make Peanut Butter Cup Monkey Bread
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan, or use non stick spray, and then set the bundt pan aside.
- In a large Ziplock bag, shake together the sugar and cinnamon.
- Next, cut the refrigerated biscuit dough into quarters.
- Add the biscuit dough to the cinnamon sugar mixture inside the bag and shake until the dough balls are coated.
- Place half of the sugar and cinnamon mixture coated biscuit dough into your prepared pan.
- Drizzle evenly half of the melted chocolate, half of the melted peanut butter, and all of the melted butter.
- Add the other half of the coated cut biscuits to the top of your bundt pan.
- Place the peanut butter monkey bread into the preheated oven, and bake for about 30 minutes, or until the biscuits are golden brown and cooked all the way through.
- When the peanut butter monkey bread is baked, remove pan from the oven and allow the monkey bread to cool for 10 minutes before turning your bundt pan over to release the peanut butter monkey bread.
- Drizzle the golden brown peanut butter monkey bread with the remaining melted chocolate and peanut butter glaze, and serve warm.
Recipe Tips
- This monkey bread is a fantastic make-ahead dessert. Simply prepare and bake it the day before, then reheat it in the oven or microwave for a warm, gooey treat.
- Feel free to customize your monkey bread! Add chopped nuts or chopped reese’s cups, you could even sprinkle the monkey bread with a pinch of sea salt for a sweet and savory twist.
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Peanut Butter Cup Monkey Bread
Equipment
- Cutting Board
- Kitchen Knife
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon ground
- 2 cans cans refrigerated biscuits refrigerated
- 2 cups peanut butter melted, creamy
- 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips melted
- 1 cup butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour bundt pan. Set aside.
- In a large Ziploc bag, shake together sugar and cinnamon. 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Cut refrigerated biscuits into quarters. Add biscuits to the cinnamon sugar mixture inside the bag and shake until coated. 2 cans cans refrigerated biscuits
- Place half of the sugar coated biscuits into your bundt pan.
- Drizzle with half of the melted chocolate, half of the melted peanut butter, and all of the melted butter. 2 cups peanut butter, 2 cups peanut butter, 1 cup butter
- Add the other half of the coated biscuits to the top of your bundt pan.
- Bake for about 30 minutes, or until the biscuits are cooked all the way through. After removing from the oven, allow the bread to cool for 10 minutes before turning your pan over to release the bread.
- Drizzle with remaining melted chocolate and peanut butter.
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This looks so amazing!! I pinned this to make some weekend later!! Thank you!!
Looks great! Wondering if you know how this would turn out with natural peanut butter?
I think the thinner texture of the natural peanut butter would be awesome–perfect for drizzling!