Description
This is a vamped-up version of monkey bread. Amazingly delicious, and so tempting to the sweet tooth. If you want to be generous, the cream cheese adds some protein too!
Ingredients
- 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
- 1 (8 ounce) package cold cream cheese
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
- ½ cup raisins, or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch tube pan.
- Cut bread dough apart 2 1/2-inch pieces. Chop cream cheese into 1/2-inch cubes. Flatten the same number of dough pieces into small circles as you have pieces of cream cheese (reserve remaining dough). Fold a piece of cream cheese into each flattened dough circle and pinch the seams closed. Roll all the filled and unfilled pieces of dough into balls.
- Combine sugar with cinnamon in a bowl and roll all the dough balls in the cinnamon sugar; set aside. Bring butter and brown sugar to a boil in a saucepan
- reduce heat
- and simmer for 1 minute.
- Layer half the filled and unfilled dough balls with half the walnuts and raisins in the prepared tube pan; pour half the brown sugar syrup over the mixture. Layer remaining dough balls
- walnuts
- and raisins into the pan and pour remaining syrup over the gorilla bread.
- Bake gorilla bread in the preheated oven until golden brown and the dough has baked through
- 35 to 45 minutes. Let bread cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a serving platter. To serve
- pull the bread apart.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 10