When the holidays roll around, I not only think about the big dinner, but I usually make something special for breakfast, too. Though because I do so much cooking over the holidays, it’s nice to take some shortcuts where I can.
For the past several years, I’ve made Monkey Bread for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter breakfasts. My family loves it and it’s pretty easy to make. But, after browsing around the Pillsbury site, I decided to give Cream Cheese Monkey Bread a try.
3 Ingredient Cream Cheese Monkey Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cans (17.5 oz each) Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Flaky Supreme refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing
- 1 package (8oz) cream cheese
- 1/4 cup butter
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening or cooking spray.
- Cut cream cheese block into 20 pieces. The easiest way to do this is to cut it in half so you have two thin blocks, then cut this up. I cut each into 12 pieces, which was 4 too many, but I ended up using most of it anyway.
- Separate each can of dough into 5 rolls; unroll each roll, and cut each in half. (Set aside icing from cinnamon rolls.)
- Cut each long strip in half.
- Take this smaller piece and fold it in half.
- Put one of the cream cheese pieces in the middle of this folded piece, and then fold the dough around it, pinching it on the sides so all the cream cheese is inside.
- Place these cream cheese dough rolls into your pan as you make them.
- If you have any dough left (because it broke off), make smaller pouches with these. And if any of the cinnamon comes off as you’re preparing them, add that to the pan, too.
- Slice the 1/4 cup butter and distribute pats on top. (You can stop here and put this in the fridge overnight if you want to have this made ahead of time, then just pop in the oven in the morning. I didn’t do that this time, but plan to when I make it for the holidays)
- Bake for 40-45 minutes.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning over onto serving plate.
- I heated the icing for 5 seconds so I could easily take a fork and drizzle the icing over the cream cheese monkey bread. I only used one of the containers. You can use the other as dip for the pieces if you want it extra sweet.
This Cream Cheese Monkey Bread looks fancy and yet isn’t difficult to make. As you’re shopping for your ingredients, you can save $1.00 off 3 Pillsbury products at Winn-Dixie. Or, if you’re a Bi-Lo shopper, click here to save $1.00 off 3 Pillsbury products. You can get your two cans of sweet rolls for your Monkey Bread and then get a package of ready-to-bake cookies to have on hand this holiday season. You can download other coupons from Winn-Dixie and Bi-Lo to help save on your holiday grocery shopping.
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