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Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread is easy to make and cooks in a crockpot! Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread is made in the crockpot. Which makes this an easy recipe that will please many! I have monkey bread on the brain, y’all.
Which is why this recipe comes at the perfect time: Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread. Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread is made with cinnamon rolls in a crockpot! Until recently I used my slow cooker for one of three things: Salsa Chicken, Pot Roast, or Crockpot Marinara Sauce. All my life I’ve been making dessert in the oven and my slow cooker has sat, mostly dusty, on the garage shelf, only making occasional appearances at dinner. Last week I bought two cans of Pillsbury Grands! I was going to make baked french toast with them. Heather made Apple Cinnamon French Toast Bake.
It is almost Christmas, after all. Monkey Bread rules the day on Christmas in our house. You can make monkey bread in a crockpot! The reason I love this so much more?
I find that, when I make monkey bread in the oven the outside gets so hard and crunchy and done in order for the center to get fully cooked. I prefer my monkey bread to be soft, not hard, so this creates a problem. It’s like a fight to the death: who will get to the center of the monkey bread first? By making this Slow Cooker Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread in the crockpot, the bread steams as it cooks, keeping it soft and doughy but actually baked all over. It’ll get a little browned around the edges, as you can see, but even the browned parts stay soft. That’s the perfect monkey bread, if you ask me!
You can make a traditional monkey bread this way, using Grands! I went one step further and used cinnamon rolls because, well, why not? You can make monkey bread in a crockpot using Grands! The prep for this recipe is less than 20 minutes.