Dutch Oven Monkey Bread Recipes

We love to cook and bake outdoors, especially in our dutch ovens. On a recent camping trip, we baked a batch of Monkey Bread in the dutch oven for our brunch. They were so easy to make and turned out so yummy!This dutch oven Monkey Bread recipe is a great one to make with kids since they can help roll the dough balls and shake the bag of spices to coat the dough balls. Little A is only four years old and she had a blast helping to make the Monkey Bread!The weather is still pretty chilly around here since it is only early spring in Montana but that doesn’t stop us from going camping or baking in our dutch ovens! On our recent camping trip, we built a campfire first thing in the morning so we could sit nearby to stay warm as the sun rose and the day warmed up a bit. We used our campfire to heat up the charcoal briquettes and opened up one side of our campfire ring to place the coals and the dutch oven while it baked.

In case you’re new here, you might have missed our tips on how to bake off grid in a dutch oven, how we love to bake most of our Thanksgiving dinner outdoors in dutch ovens and even baked our pies in the dutch ovens outside when the temperature was in the 20’s outside! We have more dutch oven recipes we love to bake that we’ll be sharing on the blog over the next few months so stay tuned for more recipes.

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Our Monkey Bread recipe uses all ingredients that are made from scratch. A lot of Monkey Bread recipes out there have you buy pre-made dough packed in cans at the grocery store (and they’re also packed with lots of icky ingredients and preservatives!)

Easy Dutch Oven Bread Recipes

We prefer to make our food from scratch so this recipe uses homemade dough. This dough is super easy to make and is actually the dough we also use for making homemade pizza. Since our homemade dough recipe makes a large batch, we had enough dough to bake our Monkey Bread, a big dough ball to take on our camping trip to make dutch oven pizza (recipe coming soon!) and one big dough ball to stick in the freezer at home for a future meal. Here’s our recipe for making the homemade dough.

1. Pour the cinnamon, sugar and brown sugar into a gallon size plastic bag. We like to use a zip top bag to get a good seal on top before shaking so we don’t end up with a big mess.

2. Tear the dough apart and roll into small balls about 1″ in size. Place the dough balls inside the plastic bag.

Dutch Oven Cinnamon Monkey Bread

5. Remove the sugary dough balls from the plastic bag and spread them out on the bottom of the parchment paper lined dutch oven.

7. Cover the dutch oven and bake about 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Rotate the dutch oven about half way through the baking to ensure even baking.

8. When they’re done, enjoy! We even had some left over that we ate a few hours later for an afternoon snack and they still tasted delicious.

Easy Candied Bacon Monkey Bread Recipe

Annie Bernauer is a certified Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. She enjoys writing about her family's adventures in modern day homesteading in Montana and helping others to learn these skills.I always love a little dessert after dinner, it usually doesn’t matter what it is as long as it satisfies my sweet tooth. Even when out camping it is nice to have something. I have made this dutch oven monkey bread a few times and everyone has loved it. Plus it is easy to make, which is the real plus!

After a long day whether you are hiking, playing in the water or geocaching it is nice to relax, cook a nice meal and have a warm dessert to top it all off. I have recently been using my dutch oven more and have come to truly love making meals in it. It takes some time to get the hang of keeping the temperature even but once you do, the dutch oven works slick. For this recipe it is best to use around 7-10 coals on the bottom and 12-14 on the top.

I usually try to prepare recipes at home before I leave for camping but this recipe is definitely simple enough to do at the campsite. If you wanted to do any preparation you can combine the sugars and cinnamon in a bag so you don’t have to measure at the campsite. If you would have no way to melt butter (camp stove, in pan over campfire), you could also melt that at home and keep it in a container.

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Cinnamon Monkey Bread Recipe

Monkey bread has always been a favorite of mine and it makes me so happy to have found this recipe, from boyscouttrail.com that I can use at the campsite!

There’s nothing like a hot, healthy meal of good, wholesome food after an exhausting day of scouting! Kids and leaders can get some great food recipes at Boy Scout Trail for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as well as desserts and trail snacks. Here are some recipes.Sweet, sticky, and delicious, Dutch oven monkey bread is a delightful treat that you can prepare from the comfort of your home kitchen or in the great outdoors!

This comforting sweet dish is traditionally served as a snack or a dessert, and it’s a fantastic way to get rid of some leftover biscuit dough you might have in your cupboards. If you’re preparing this at home, then you can use an enameled cast-iron Dutch oven for the best results. You can also take this recipe camping and cook up some campfire monkey bread over hot coals!

Cheat's Monkey Bread

In this recipe, you’ll learn how long to cook monkey bread, the best biscuit dough to use, and how to make camping monkey bread. 

Share on Pinterest Servings 8 Prep Time 15 minutes Cook Time 20 minutes Ingredients 2 cans of biscuit dough ½ cup of white sugar ¼ cup of cinnamon ¼ cup of butter ½ cup of chopped walnuts Directions Preheat your oven to 350 °F while you prepare your Dutch oven sticky buns for baking. First, place your chopped walnuts at the bottom of the Dutch oven to form a compact base. Next, measure out cinnamon and sugar before mixing them in a large bowl. Cut your biscuit dough into 16 equally sized pieces, then coat each of these pieces in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Stack the biscuits on top of the walnuts, then pour melted butter into the Dutch oven. Secure the lid on your Ditch oven, then leave your monkey bread with biscuits to bake in the oven for at least 20 minutes. When your monkey bread is golden brown and piping hot, then it’s time to enjoy this sweet and sticky treat!

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Taking a good monkey bread Dutch oven camping recipe with you into the great outdoors is the perfect way to add some sweet, sticky, cinnamon goodness to your next backwoods trip.

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It’s easy, too, as this is one recipe you can prepare with minimal equipment as you’re sitting around the campfire. The ingredients are no different from the one above; you’ll simply be cooking over a campfire rather than in the oven.

You’ll need hot embers, and lots of them, so get that fire started early. You also want to use a traditional cast iron double dutch oven rather than an enameled Dutch oven. Enameled Dutch ovens are much more delicate than the heavier cast-iron Dutch ovens, so we suggest leaving the enamel at home. 

When your embers are red hot, you can bury your Dutch oven in the fire so it’s covered and evenly heated — place coals on top of the lid for the best results. 

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You can use almost any biscuit dough that cooks straight from the packet, but we suggest going for a Pillsbury monkey bread recipe. Pillsbury biscuits are often the preferred choice for monkey bread bakers, as they offer the perfect texture and taste. You can easily take monkey bread Pillsbury biscuits camping with you or leave them in the fridge or freezer until you’re ready to bake at home.

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We all know what monkey bread is, but it’s one of those unusually named food items that we never quite understand why it’s called what it is. One popular suggestion is that the term monkey bread refers to the fact this sweet treat is easy to eat with the hands. It’s easy to pick pieces off, just as a monkey would eat their food. 

Monkey bread also has many other names, too, including ‘Bubble Bread’ and ‘Pull-apart Bread.’ Regardless of how it got the name, though, it’s a rather fitting description of this delightful dessert!

Dutch Oven Monkey Bread Recipe: Sweet And Sticky

So grab your monkey or bubble bread, throw it in the oven or on the fire and enjoy this sweet treat. But make sure to grab some napkins first! Enjoyed this recipe? Check out our gluten-free Dutch oven bread or other easy-to-do Dutch oven recipes!

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