Chocolate Chip Crescent Roll Monkey Bread
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Buttery, full of cinnamon and chocolate, Chocolate Chip Crescent Roll Monkey Bread makes an easy breakfast recipe. This is a tasty and quick way to enjoy monkey bread for breakfast.
This recipe has evolved from traditional monkey bread made with biscuits to being made with crescent rolls, plus chocolate chips.
This evolution is thanks to my boys. They kept talking over breakfast and changing the traditional monkey bread recipe. I’m actually just fine with that. They have given me a lot of great ideas to share on Call Me PMc.
Chocolate Chip Crescent Roll Monkey Bread
I make this pull apart recipe in individual portions in ramekins because my boys said, “This feels gourmet when you make it in these cups.”
Hey, they eat better when food is in individual portions so I’m all for it!
If you google “monkey bread”, you’ll see a lot of different ways to make it. My version has chocolate chips and starts with premade crescent roll dough. As well, I like to bake this pull-apart bread in ramekins. This cuts down on the cooking time which is great for weekday breakfasts.
Another version of monkey bread uses biscuits and a loaf pan.
What you’ll need
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- Crescent roll dough
- Butter
- Chocolate chips
- Ground cinnamon
- Brown sugar
Chocolate Chip Crescent Roll Monkey Bread is buttery, chocolatey and full of cinnamon. Sticky pull-apart bread is the best! Furthermore, the top gets crispy while the inside stays soft and there is always extra
As well, this chocolate chip monkey bread recipe is a sweet, gooey, and a sinful treat. There’s just something about eating foods with your hands that makes them better! Do you agree?
More Crescent Roll Recipes
If you love this sweet pull apart bread made with Pillsbury crescent rolls, I bet you will love these other recipes, too!
Chocolate Chip Crescent Roll Monkey Bread
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Ingredients
- 8 ounce can crescent rolls
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Spray 3 ramekins or 4 or 5 muffin tins with non-stick spray.
- Place ramekins in a larger casserole dish to catch any spills.
- Roll crescent roll dough out into four rectangles.
- Spread 1 tablespoon of chocolate chips on each of the four rectangles.
- Roll the rectangle up and cut into 5 or 6 even pieces.
- Put butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave 30 to 40 seconds until butter is melted. Stir.
- Dip each crescent roll piece into the cinnamon mixture then place it in a ramekin. Repeat with all.
- Pour any remaining butter/cinnamon mixture over crescent roll pieces.
- Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until cooked through.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
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It looks like you put more than one in each how many are you putting together in muffin tin
This looks amazing Paula! Hope you are doing well – happy new year!
Drooling! Looks awesome can’t wait to try!
Oh how I wish we were neighbors. I could REALLY go for some of these with my morning coffee today. Thanks much for your faithfulness to share with us at Weekend Potluck. Hope yours is a great weekend.