Mardi Gras Gorilla Bread Recipes

KING CAKE MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a tube pan with cooking spray.
• Separate cinnamon rolls, saving icing to use later. Cut each cinnamon roll into four pieces. Place cinnamon roll pieces in tube pan.
• Beat together cream cheese and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and milk. Mix until combined. Pour cream cheese mixture over cinnamon rolls.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes. After baking, let pan cool 10 minutes.
• Turn baked monkey bread out on plate and ice with cinnamon roll icing. Decorate with purple, yellow, and green sanding sugar.

EASY KING CAKE MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• To make King Cake Monkey Bread, start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and spraying the inside of a bundt pan with non-stick spray.
• Next, remove the biscuits from their tubes and cut each biscuit in half and then in half again so you have four pieces from each biscuit. In a small bowl combine brown sugar, pecans, vanilla extract, pecan pieces and a dash of salt. In a separate bowl, add the melted butter. Start by taking one piece of biscuit, dipping it in the melted butter and then rolling it through the brown sugar mixture. Lay in the bottom of the bundt pan and repeat until you have used up all of your biscuits. About half way through placing your biscuit pieces, add the plastic baby in your monkey bread and keep placing the biscuits around it.
• Once you have used up your biscuits, bake for 40 - 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let sit for 15 minutes before running a butter knife around the outside of the monkey bread. Place a plate upside down on the top (bottom) of the bundt pan and firmly holding both, flip both the plate and the pan upside down so that your top is now your bottom. Give the pan a little shimmy and your King Cake Monkey Bread should slide right out. Let cool completely.
• Once cool, add sifted powdered sugar, milk and vanilla to a medium sized bowl and using an electric mixer, beat until well combined. Drizzle the glaze over your monkey bread and decorate with yellow, green and purple sprinkles or sanding sugar. Serve immediately. Leftovers can be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

MARDI GRAS GORILLA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. PLEASE READ THROUGH THE ENTIRE RECIPE BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
• 2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• 3. Spray a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• 4. Mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
• 5. In a saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar over low heat, stirring well; set aside.
• 6. Cut each cream cheese block into 20 equal cubes.
• 7. Press the biscuits out with your fingers, cut in halves; sprinkle each with 1/3 teaspoon of cinnamon sugar. Place a cube of cream cheese in the center of half of the biscuits, wrapping and sealing the dough around the cream cheese. Roll into a ball. Place half a strawberry in the center of the other half of the biscuits, wrapping and sealing the dough around the strawberries. Roll into a ball.
• 8. Sprinkle 1/3 of the nuts into the bottom of the bundt pan. Pour 1/3 of melted butter mixture over the nuts. Place half of the prepared biscuits in the pan. You can mix the cream cheese balls with the strawberry balls or have one layer of the cream cheese balls and then the other layer with the strawberry balls. It's your call.
• 9. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, pour 1/3 of the melted butter mixture over the biscuits, and sprinkle on 1/3 of nuts.
• 10. Layer the remaining biscuits on top, sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon sugar, pour the remaining butter mixture over the biscuits, and sprinkle with the remaining 1/3 of nuts.
• 11. Bake for 30-45 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes.
• 12. Place a plate on top and invert. Decorate the top with colored sugars (green, gold, purple), in alternating sections, about 2 inches each.
• 13. Don't forget to hide the plastic baby charm inside one of the dough balls, but warn everyone to look for it!