Caramel apple Instant Pot monkey bread with cinnnamon rolls is so addicting. Easy to make with refrigerated or defrosted frozen bread dough! If it’s hot and you’re not about to turn on your oven this is the new way to bake!
This Instant Pot caramel apple monkey bread is so addicting. You’ll want to make it for breakfast or brunch!! It is easy to throw together, pour in your bundt pan, and it comes out perfect. One of our favorite Instant Pot recipes. (affiliate links present)
I know y’all have made a version of our easy monkey bread before but have you made it in your pressure cooker??? It is so easy. I’ll top it with the frosting packet that comes with the cinnamon rolls. That way I don’t have to buy a tub. It’s to die for I tell you.
Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Monkey Bread Recipe
You don’t have to have the popular IP brand though either. I have tried this in a Crockpot Express as well as the Ninja Foodi and those work great too. With the latter you have another option as well, air fryer monkey bread can be made too in that one.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
Instant Pot Pull Apart Bread
You really do need a pan to make this, I like using a mini bundt because it comes out pretty and cooks evenly with it. I use it all the time making other cakes and things too so it won’t be used just once friends.
Nuts are optional but yummy. Chop them and put them on the bottom of your pan so they come out on top when flipped over. I have done this when baking my pumpkin monkey bread during the Fall months. I just basically include a handful of nuts and a few tbsp of puree into the hot butter mix. 😉
Ingredients
- Caramel bits and diced apples are optional
- Cinnamon rolls or biscuits – not Grands, regular size
- Butter
- White sugar and cinnamon – cinnamon is optional if you’re using cinnamon rolls
- Brown sugar
Equipment needed
Instant Pot 6 quart was used as well as a 6 cup bundt pan. You’ll also need the small trivet that comes with your pot too. That will keep the pan out of the water so you can get the full effect of it essentially being steamed under high pressure so it can “bake” well.
Can you use frozen cinnamon rolls to make monkey bread?
You can use defrosted Rhodes cinnamon rolls, yes. It would take a few hours thawed on the counter before they are able to be sliced into fourths in this case but work great as well.
What can I use other than a bundt pan for monkey bread?
You can use another pan that fits inside the pot but the texture will be different. If using a pot the middle will be a lot thicker and take longer to “bake” so the cook time would need to be increased. Once the center is no longer sticky the outside will be drier than normal because of the increased timing but can be done.
Instant Pot Caramel Apple Monkey Bread
If you want to make an amped up version you could dice 1/2 of an apple and add 1/4 cup of caramel bits into the mix the brown sugar and butter mixed together will give it that flavor in the sauce no matter what. Here are the steps you’ll take to make this:
Monkey Bread in Instant Pot with Rhodes Cinnamon Rolls
- Cut each cinnamon roll or biscuit into 4 equal sized pcs
- Put sugar mixture (can add cinnamon) into large baggie
- Add pcs. and shake so they get nice and coated
- Melt butter and brown sugar
- Add 1/2 biscuits to 6 cup bundt pan, pour 1/2 butter mixture on top
- Lay remaining biscuits on top, then remaining butter mixture
- Add water and trivet into your pot on the bottom. I like the one with handles so it comes out easily when timer is done.
- Loosely cover pan with foil
- Lower pan on top
- Set to high pressure cooking
- I like to do a slow natural pressure release for 10 minutes vs quick release so it can solidify a bit longer
- Carefully remove the bundt pan
The cinnamon rolls come with icing packets so I just use those. Warming them in the microwave for about 5 seconds so it pours over the top well. YES!! It comes out this sticky when you flip it over!!
Can you make monkey bread ahead of time?
Yes and no. Of course you can make it in the morning before serving that night, or the day before but the texture will not be as good. The thing people love about this treat is the sticky ooey gooey nature of it which will dry up in about 1 hour. Even if wrapped once cooled and reheated it isn’t as good.
Close second would be to bake, cool, wrap tight with plastic wrap, store on the counter and reheat that evening. Break apart as much as you want on a plate with a tbsp of frosting spread over the top to moisten it up and heat for 45 seconds in the microwave.
Other pressure cooker desserts you’ll love
Whether you make it for dessert, breakfast, or for brunch when other people come over it is just delicious! You’ll never buy a store bought monkey bread after tasting this one I promise. 🙂 Looking for more easy Instant Pot dessert recipes, here are a few:
- Instant Pot pumpkin apple cake is to die for
- The best Instant Pot lemon poppy seed cake is here to try
- We love this Instant Pot coffee cake too
With a quick cook time compared to our apple monkey bread baked in the oven, it’s a great option if you’re short on time or space. In about 20 minutes it’s done and ready to enjoy.
Instant Pot Monkey Bread
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 can Cinnamon Rolls, refrigerated, regular size, not grands, or use biscuits
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1/4 c butter, melted
- 1/2 c brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 c chopped nuts, optional
Instructions
- Cut your cinnamon rolls or biscuits into 4 pcs. per roll or so. Put into a bowl.
- Add your white sugar and cinnamon into a large baggie, mix together, add your cut rolls and gently toss so they are coated.
- Spray the inside of your 6 c. bundt pan with non stick spray. Put 1/2 of coated cinnamon roll / biscuits pieces into pan. Pour 1/2 brown sugar/butter over that. Then layer remaining rolls with butter mixture on very top. Sprinkle in nuts here and there if you want to add those.
- Pour 1.5 c. water into the inside of your pressure cooker and lower down a trivet. Then lower filled bundt pan loosely covered with a piece of foil on to your trivet.
- Close the lid and steam valve and set to manual, pressure, high, for 20 minutes.
- Do a natural release for 10 minutes. Then release rest of steam.
- Carefully lift out, and allow to cool almost completely on a cooling rack before flipping over if you want it to stay in tact. If you want it warm flip over immediately, it just may not stay in tact as a pretty looking bundt (but really who cares).
- Can pour icing that came in cinnamon roll tube on top of that too and enjoy.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The bundt pan in your picture is Nordic Ware, but your link to the best bundt pan for the instant pot is Miragee? Which one is best?
I like Nordic ware but they aren’t always in stock
Where’s the “Apple” part of this recipe? Also, when & where do you add the caramels?
Your recipe says to add the melted butter and brown sugar on top after you have flipped it over.
But the video shows it added to the bundt pan before it is even baked.
Can you do it either way or do you add it before you cook it?
Thanks in advance!
Yes you add it to the bottom of the pan. Then when you flip it over you’ll have to swipe the remaining brown sugar butter sauce that’s still inside the pan on top of the finished product. Hope that clarifies it.
I haven’t an instant pot. How long to bake in the oven and at what temp, please. I can be reached at carol dot vanrooy at gmail.com