October is the month for all things spooky and scary, but it’s also a great time to enjoy some of our favorite treats! Settle into your comfy chair with a hot cup of cocoa and a slice of this monkey bread. This sweetbread can be enjoyed any time of the day, but we’ve given you something special just for Halloween! This version of monkey bread is perfect for a spooky treat because it is designed to look like brains.
Monkey Brain Bread
I am a huge fan of breakfast for any meal of the day. I think that pancakes are perfectly acceptable for dinner and that cereal is perfect any time of day. That’s why I feel that monkey bread is perfect for breakfast, as an after-school snack, and for dessert. I’ve seen them served sweet and savory and I don’t think that there’s a bad way to prepare a big serving of pull-apart bread. For this Halloween-inspired treat, I paired the biscuit-based loaf with sweet strawberry filling for this fun and delicious Monkey Brain Bread.
You can totally go with the traditional cinnamon-sugar flavor, but I wanted a bit more of gorey effect, so adding in the red fruit filling was perfect!
Then I poured the pie filling over the loaf for an oozing bloody look!
The candy eyeballs and monkey skeleton I got at Target just made serving it up even better!
Trust me – the kids are going to love it!! I know I did.
Monkey Bread
Whether you just want a fund, creep treat or you are trying to make something for a Halloween party, you are going to want to make these Monkey Bread Brains. This is a one-of-a-kind Halloween treat that everyone is going to love.
What is monkey bread?
Monkey bread is a sweet bread dessert that is often made with cinnamon, sugar, and butter. Sometimes it is made from scratch but oftentimes it is made using biscuit dough. The dough is rolled into balls, rolled in cinnamon sugar, and has butter poured over it. It is then baked. The treat is then eaten like a pull-apart bread and enjoyed for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.
In this case, since this is the Brains Edition, the monkey bread is coating with a strawberry filling to make the textured outside of the monkey bread look like brains.
Tips on how to cook the monkey bread so that it looks like brain tissue
The biscuit dough is mixed together with strawberry pie filling to create the brain tissue. The dough is wrapped around some of the filling so that it is baked inside. Then after the monkey bread is baked and flipped over, more pie filling is drizzled over the top. Between the texture of the monkey bread and the pie filling drizzled over top, this is going to remind your guests of brain tissue.
It’s simple to stuff your biscuits with pie filling.
Once you quarter your biscuits, simply open them up and add a small amount of strawberry pie filling and then pinch it closed. It’s a process to make them all, but I thought it was totally worth it.
Once it’s baked up, you can see little spots where the filling oozed through but that just adds to the overall effect.
Serve it up with some “spinal fluid” dipping sauce. That’s just more pie filling mixed with whipped cream 🙂 But it’s always fun to pretend.
I think this would be super fun at a Halloween party for the kids. Monkey Brain Bread serves a lot of people, tastes great, and is so fun to watch your guests think back to the scene in Indiana Jones when they get served chilled monkey brains for dessert.
I’m evil… I know. You’re welcome!
Check out the amazing #HalloweenTreatsWeek recipes from our bloggers today!
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- Devilish Halloween Deviled Eggs from Pastry Chef Online
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- Cauldron Cupcakes from Mrs. Happy Homemaker
- Black Magic Skull Cakes from Sugar Dish Me
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- Halloween Sprinkle Cookie Cake from Love and Confections
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- Creepy Crawly Dirt Cup Pudding Parfaits from 4 Sons R Us
- “Guts” Cinnamon Rolls from A Blender Mom
- Creepy Eyeball Donuts from Daily Dish Recipes
- Mummy Bites from Eat Move Make
- Monkey Brain Bread from Pint Sized Baker
- Halloween Cookie Pizza from Grumpy’s Honeybunch
- Boo Berry Pie from Kudos Kitchen
- Monster Donuts from The Baking Fairy
- Boogeyman Brew from Who Needs A Cape?
- Purple People Eater Thumbprints from The Spiffy Cookie
- Hocus Pocus Halloween Decorated Pretzels from Lady Behind The Curtain
- Black and Orange Cookies from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Halloween Chocolate Cherry Hand Pies from House of Nash Eats
- Skeleton Popsicles from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
- Monster Mash Cake from Mildly Meandering
- Graveyard Skillet Brownies from Strawberry Blondie Kitchen
- Blood-Red Pomegranate Margarita from The Redhead Baker
- Halloween Snoballs from The Beard and The Baker
- Halloween Dunkaroo Dip from Savory Experiments
- Bloody Eyeball Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes from Katie’s Cucina
- Eye Scream Sundae from For the Love of Food
And since you love Monkey Bread so much, here’s a few more flavor ideas for you – Lemon Curd Monkey Bread
Peaches and Cream Monkey Bread
Chocolate Cherry Monkey Bread Recipe
Monkey Brain Bread
Get a bit gruesome this Halloween when you serve the family a classic Monkey Bread for breakfast when your make Monkey Brain Bread instead.
Ingredients
- 2 cans of refrigerator biscuit dough
- 1 can of Strawberry Pie Filling
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C butter, melted
- Wilton candy eyeballs
- 1 C sweetened whipped cream or Cool Whip
- Adam's Extract Red Food Coloring, optional
Instructions
- Pop open the refrigerator biscuits and try not to scare your self. Cut each of the biscuits into 4 pieces. Set aside.
- Open the pie filling and pour over a strainer. Push the jelly through the strainer into a bowl and reserve the fruit. Open the biscuit pieces and add a small amount of fruit to the center and pinch close. You'll know how much is enough or too much when it oozes out the sides.
- Preheat the oven to 350F and add nonstick baking spray to a large bundt pan.
- Sprinkle the dough pieces with sugar and place them into the bundt pan. Pour the melted butter over top and bake for 45 - 60 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes. Turn the monkey bread out on to a serving plate and cool for an hour.
- Use the reserved pie filling jelly and spoon over top of the bread. accessorize with Wilton candy eyeballs.
- Serve with "spinal fluid" by mixing the pie filling jelly with sweetened whipped cream or cool whip.
Notes
Don't want to use a can of pie filling? No problem. Simply slice some strawberries up and pop those into the center of the biscuits pieces. To make the "bloody" topping, mix 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 - 3 tablespoons of milk and enough of Adam's Extract Red Food Coloring to make a red glaze. Pour over the monkey bread and serve.
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This is so freaking cute! I love the eyeballs!
Thanks so much! I wasn’t sure about the eyeballs, but they turned out great!
I love Jack Skellington and the Sanderson sisters!
They are all great characters. Did you see mt Jack Skellington Cake Pop tutorial?
This is almost too creepy to eat! I LOVE IT. And the spinal fluid dipping sauce… LOL. You are too much 🙂
Haha! I wasn’t sure what to call the strawberry cream. I got creative and had fun with it.
You should win a prize for the photo of that skeleton eating your monkey bread!
🙂 Thanks! I had a bit too much fun with that monkey skeleton. I was thrilled when I found it!
This is entirely too much fun! I love the blood!
I was really happy with the way it turned out. Thanks.
How cute with the strawberry filling drizzle on top. And the eyes on these. What a fun breakfast for kids both big and little.
Those eyes! I wasn’t sure about the eyes, but once I added them, I loved them.