Monkey bread 🙈🙉🙊🐵🐒 made with ancient sourdough starter and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal is a delightful twist on the classic recipe that already makes you swoon – and takes “extra” sweet crunch takes the breakfast dessert bread to a whole new level of greatness.

The tangy and complex flavor of homemade sourdough bread adds a depth of flavor that enhances the overall experience of morning monkey bread. It provides a subtle sourness that balances beautifully with the sweetness of the other ingredients, creating a harmonious blend of flavors. The Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (I just learned to be one of Brian’s childhood favorite, and I’ve LONG known it to be one of my sister’s vices) brings the enticing marriage of cinnamon and sugar crunch to each and every monkey bread bite! And, just to make your mouth water even more, the sourdough bread dough is further enhanced with Cinnamon Toast Crunch “butter!” Yup – next level – creamy, sweet, cinnamony, buttery spread all baked INTO the bread.

How can you elevate breakfast or dessert any more? Well, you really CAN’T!!!

Bask in your childhood cereal nostalgia of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Monkey Bread, or channel your current inner-child, and enjoy every crunchy, delicious bite of this simple Cinnamon Toast Crunch Sourdough Monkey Bread!

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Sourdough Monkey Bread

Sourdough Bread Dough Balls:
3/4 cup fed sourdough starter
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 1/4 cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cinnamon Spread (1 jar)
1/4 tsp. sea salt
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour

+ butter, for greasing the pan

Mix together the fed starter (best after sitting for 8-12 hours at room temperature), cream, Cinnamon Spread, and salt. Whisk well to combine.
Stir in the flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until doughy and well incorporated.

Cover and allow to rise at room temperature for 8-12 hours.

Using greased hands, form 1-3″ diameter dough balls with the risen dough.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch “Sauce:”
1 1/4 cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cinnamon Spread (1 jar)
2 eggs
1/2 cup cream

2 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal

Whisk together the Cinnamon Spread, eggs, and cream until smooth.

Prepare a bundt cake pan with plenty of butter to prevent sticking.
Sprinkle 3/4 cup cereal over the bottom of the pan.
Line with 1/2 the dough balls.
Drizzle 1/2 the cinnamon-cream-egg mixture over the balls.
Top with another handful of cereal and the remaining dough balls.
Drizzle with the remaining “sauce.”

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Bake the prepared Monkey Bread loaf for 35-45 minutes.

Cool for several hours, after removing from the oven.

Invert the loaf pan and transfer to a plate.
Top with the remaining cereal before slicing and serving – warm.