Bubble Bread (or Monkey Bread)

My cute daughter in law Makinlee makes this wonderful Bubble Bread (or Monkey Bread) whenever we are all together and everyone LOVES it. You may know it as ‘Monkey Bread’. It is sometimes made with canned biscuit dough, but I like this version with roll dough so much better. Makinlee always uses frozen Rhodes Rolls dough. Here in Tennessee I find them in the freezer section at Walmart. You could, of course, use your favorite homemade roll dough for this recipe, but personally I like the ease of the frozen bread dough.

How to make Bubble Bread (or Monkey Bread)

First you let your frozen roll dough semi defrost, enough that you can cut them into 2-4 pieces. I prefer cutting the dough into 4 so that the pieces are smaller and the wonderful sauce distributes better. Put the pieces in a greased bundt pan. I usually start the sauce while I am doing this. In a saucepan over medium heat, melt your butter, then add the sugar, cinnamon and butterscotch pudding mix. Once combined, pour over the chopped bread dough in the bundt pan. At this point cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise on the counter for 3-4 hours (depending on how warm your kitchen is) Another option is to make these right before bed and set in the fridge overnight.

After rising they should look like this and are ready to pop into a hot oven to bake.

After they are done baking you carefully turn upside down onto a plate to serve. I like to take a knife to loosen the edges first. Also, I always, make sure all the yummy sauce comes out!

I think this would be a wonderful Christmas morning breakfast. You can make it the night before and let it rise in the fridge overnight.

Other Christmas Breakfast Recipes:

Christmas Morning Cream Eggs

Christmas Star Bread

Eggnog Muffins

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