This Caramel Monkey Bread Breakfast Pull Apart takes me right back to my childhood. We loved having breakfast for dinner growing up, and this easy pull apart was our favorite.
I love making this monkey bread for Christmas breakfast! You can get it all ready the night before. In the morning, all you have to do is throw it in the oven in the morning.
This recipe is so easy to make because it only uses a few ingredients, including pre-made frozen dinner rolls.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Caramel Monkey Bread Breakfast Pull Apart, you will need the following ingredients:
- Rhodes dinner rolls, frozen
- Chopped pecans
- Package cook n’ serve butterscotch pudding
- Brown sugar
- Butter, melted
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Caramel Monkey Bread Breakfast Pull Apart
- Thaw frozen roll dough in a Ziploc bag for about 2 hours, just until thawed. Don’t let them rise.
- Cut each roll into 6 pieces using kitchen shears.
- Grease a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sprinkle pecans in the bottom of the bundt pan.
- Arrange 8 of the cut rolls over pecans.
- Sprinkle ½ package of dry pudding over rolls.
- Mix brown sugar and melted butter together and drizzle half over rolls.
- Then repeat with the other 8 rolls cut up, pudding, and sugar/butter mixture.
- Cover with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray and let rise overnight or for at least 8 hours.
- Bake at 350℉ for 30-35 minutes.
- Cool no longer than 5 minutes and invert bundt cake on a baking dish to serve.
Storage Suggestions
If by some chance you have leftovers, you can cover the pull apart with plastic wrap and store at room temperature for two days.
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Caramel Monkey Bread Breakfast Pull Apart Recipe
Ingredients
- 16 Rhodes dinner rolls, frozen
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- 1 3.5 ounce package cook n' serve butterscotch pudding
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 6 Tablespoons butter, melted
Instructions
- Thaw frozen roll dough in a Ziploc bag for about 2 hours, just until thawed. Don't let them rise.
- Cut each roll into 6 pieces using kitchen shears.
- Grease a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sprinkle pecans in the bottom of the bundt pan.
- Arrange 8 of the cut rolls over pecans.
- Sprinkle ½ package of dry pudding over rolls.
- Mix brown sugar and melted butter together and drizzle half over rolls.
- Then repeat with the other 8 rolls cut up, pudding, and sugar/butter mixture.
- Cover with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray and let rise overnight or for at least 8 hours.
- Bake at 350℉ for 30-35 minutes.
- Cool no longer than 5 minutes and invert bundt cake on a baking dish to serve.
Notes
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This may be a silly question, but do you leave them on the counter overnight or in the fridge:)
We leave it on the counter. Sometimes we’ll have it for dinner, so we make it in the morning and let it raise all day!
Is it a large or small box of pudding? I plan to make these!
It’s a small box.
When they are completely cooled on the serving dish, does the gooey caramel harden or does it continue to stay gooey?
They stay pretty gooey! It doesn’t harden.
I have made these for years, and they’re delicious! Only difference is 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon and the assembly of it. I grease a bundt or angel food cake pan. Sprinkle pecans in bottom of pan. Arrange 24 frozen rolls in pan. Sprinkle dry pudding mix over rolls. Bring butter or margarine, brown sugar and cinnamon to a simmer in a small pan. Pour over rolls. Cover with foil overnight or 8 hrs.
My family LOVES this recipe! It’s easy and delicious!
Can you use a regular butterscotch pudding box? My grocery store did not have the cook n’ serve.
We have only made it with Cook N Serve pudding mix. I don’t think instant would work.
My boys are allergic to nuts, do you think chopped apples would work as a substitute?
You can make these without the nuts. And yes, apple would work well with this recipe.
Yes, apples would work great in place of the nuts.
Would I still have to let it rise if I made this with canned biscuits instead? I can’t get Rhodes frozen rolls where I live (in Canada)
Canned biscuits don’t raise much after you open the container. So you could just bake it after assembling it. It won’t need to cook as long. Not sure how it will all turn out because we have not used biscuit dough with this recipe.
I need to use sugar free pudding, which doesn’t come in butterscotch (unless you get instant). The closest match is vanilla cook n’ serve. The only flavorings I can find are liquid. Do you think an extra 1-2 teaspoons of liquid in the recipe would be ok?
We have not tried this with the Pull apart Monkey bread recipe.
Is total time of 10 hours 50 minutes a typo??
If you read through the steps, the rolls need to thaw for about 2 hours so you can cut them up. Then you will need to let the monkey bread rise at room temp for about 8 hours. It could be an hour or two less if the house is warm.