Chocolate Covered Cherry Monkey Bread | Monkey bread smothered with delicious cherry flavor and covered in chocolate sauce! Thanks Pillsbury for sponsoring this post and supplying us with the fun goodies to make all these great Valentine’s Day treats!
Okay. I have a confession. I don’t looooooove Valentine’s Day. I mean, I sort of feel like it’s a holiday that makes you feel bad if you are single and something that makes you feel like you have to do something if you are part of a couple. (Please don’t throw things at me or give me the stink eye through your computer screen!)
But!! Since Gavin has been old enough to understand holidays, it has definitely started to grow on me! Last year when he was in K4, he was SO excited about his class’s Valentine’s Day party!
So today, I’m super excited to bring you some fun Valentine’s Day treats that your kids will love and that they will love helping you make! Recently, my kids have become so excited about helping me cook. So we brought in the Lemon Tree Dwelling girls and with the help of Pillsbury made some super fun treats!
First, these great Valentine Cookie Pops! They are made really easily with Pillsbury Ready to Bake pull apart cookies! I had the kiddos put paper straws (that had been cut in half) into the cookies, we put them in the oven and then decorated them! Even the two year olds loved it!
These are so easy to make and decorate! And you don’t need much to make them happen either! Just some decorations, paper straws, dough, and frosting. These even occupied us on one of our 8 million snow days recently!
We also made Sweetheart Cinnamon Rolls!!
And by we, I mean the kids! They had so much fun pulling apart the rolls and then rolling them back up into hearts. We popped all five in a cake pan with their tips touching and put them in the oven.
And then the kids devoured them!!
Finally, we had delicious Chocolate Covered Cherry Monkey Bread! This bread is super simple to make with Pillsbury grands biscuits, and the cherry flavor is unbelievable. It is kind of like cherry pie meets monkey bread . . . only maybe a little bit better.
The monkey bread is great with or without the chocolate sauce to go on top, but the chocolate sauce is very tasty addition!
We were fortunate enough to have this twice in my house since the first time I used a horrible pan and fell out too sloppily for pictures. We for sure will be having this again! Especially since I could barely keep my husband away from the second batch long enough to take pictures.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Monkey Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 packages of regular Pillsbury Grands biscuits
- 1 stick of butter 1/2 cup
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 1 can of cherry pie filling
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray a bunt pan with cooking spray.
- Unroll both packages of the biscuits and cut each biscuit into four pieces. In a small bowl throughly mix the cinnamon and sugar. Drop each biscuit piece into the mixture making sure it is covered, and then transfer the piece to a bigger bowl.
- In a small saucepan, combine the butter, almond extract, cherry pie filling, and brown sugar over medium low heat. Cook until the butter is completely melted, stirring occasionally. (I let mine cook while I coated the biscuit pieces.)
- Once all the biscuit pieces are coated and the butter is fully melted, pour the cherry mixture over the biscuit pieces in the large bowl. Pour any additional sugar/cinnamon mixture that is left into the bowl, and stir gently to combine.
- Pour into the bunt pan and cook for 50 minutes. Check on your monkey bread about 40 minutes into the cooking. If the biscuit pieces that are sticking out are browning too much, tent the pan with aluminum foil for the remainder of the baking time.
- At the end of the 50 minutes remove the pan from the oven and let sit for five to ten minutes before placing a large plate over the pan and inverting it. Make sure that the plate is flush up against the whole pan or it may not come out in one piece.
This is a recipe that was inspired by Lemon Tree Dwelling’s Blueberry Monkey Bread.
Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says
Your party looks like such a blast!!!
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Lisa Longley says
Thanks Jocelyn!
Julie says
My hubby would love me forever if I made this monkey bread for him!! 🙂 Thanks for this great idea. Shared on FB and pinning!
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Lisa Longley says
Julie, my husband is so picky about sweets, and he LOVED this!! Thanks for sharing it!!
Jess says
THIS monkey bread looks delicious and perfect for Valentine’s Day. I love the pics of your kiddos too – super sweet!
Lisa Longley says
Thanks Jess!! It is so tasty!!
Shikha | Shikha la mode says
You really went all out! I’m obsessed with monkey bread, and I love the idea of utilizing Pillsbury!
Lisa Longley says
I love it too Skikha! And there are so many fun things you can do with it!
Brenda @ Chatting Over Chocolate says
This looks AMAZING!! Thanks so much for sharing!! Pinned! 😉
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Lisa Longley says
Thanks for pinning Brenda!! Seriously, it was SO good!
Heather @ French Press says
that monkey bread look SO good Lisa – what a fun little party 🙂
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[email protected] says
I love these pictures, Lisa! They turned out so cute!! Sad I didn’t get to try the bread….but it looks AH-MAZING!!
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Tonia says
Sooo much fun! That monkey bread looks amazing!
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Victoria says
This looks remarkably good! We love monkey bread and chocolate covered cherries, I am going to try and remember this recipe when making the grocery list.
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Kelly @ Mostly Homemade Mom says
Looks like you all had a blast!! This monkey bread looks amazing, too. On my list to try soon with the kiddos!
Mommy on Demand says
I never used biscuits before with my monkey bread, sounds great! Would love to invite you over to my link party that has just begun http://mommyondemand.com/weekend-retreat-link-party-53/
Heather {Woods of Bell Trees} says
This is about the most amazing looking monkey bread ever!
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ThisPrettyNest.com says
These are so perfect for Friday! This definitely amped my excitement for Valentine’s Day even higher. Thanks for the great posts!
Love your blog!
Ev says
Just want to let you know I love your web site & check out your recipes often. Your children look adorable & are very lucky to have a Mom who is sharing joyful moments in the kitchen with them. Have a Happy New Year !!
Lisa Longley says
What a great comment to wake up to. Thank you!
cindy says
okay I am not finding the monkey bread recipe….it has apple cheddar quiche there….am I missing it? would love to make it!
Lisa Longley says
Hi Cindy! I’m so sorry, we updated the way my recipes are displayed and we’ve had some technical difficulties. It’s fixed now!
Patty says
Hi, this looks amazing. What size Bundt pan did you use and do you think this recipe could be halved to make it in a small Bundt pan for just two people? Any help you could give would be appreciated.
Lisa Longley says
I used a 6 cup bundt pan. I haven’t tried it smaller! If you do, let me know how it goes!
Jan Barney says
Would it be possible to assemble this Monkey Bread in advance and bake later?
Lisa Longley says
This is not a recipe that I would make ahead of time. The refrigerated dough doesn’t tend to hold up well.