What other best way to treat kids or hungry teens than make monkey bread? These little bite size munchkins aren’t too sugary but that doesn’t stop them for being delicious and best of all unhealthy.
I personally made and thought of this recipe by myself making it a original but credit to Sur la table and Martha Stewart for some inspiration on the ingredient amounts I self chose. This recipe may seem challenging especially sine there are so any steps but that;s only because it’s bread, it’s actually a pretty simple recipe to follow.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour (use 2 cups for mixture and 1/4 cup of flour for kneading)
- 1/2 tablespoon canola oil
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
For bread coating:
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 stick of salted butter
1. Start off by adding your one cup of milk in a saucepan and set on low heat and let sit till the milk is warm and not too hot, about 5 minutes . Note ignore if my stove looks like it’s on high, gas stove are screwed up so.. not my fault.
2. In a separate bowl, while the milk is heating up, add in your tablespoon of yeast and only add half of the sugar amount, 2 tablespoons of the sugar, with the yeast in the bowl. The other tablespoons of sugar will come in later.
3. At this point, turn your stove off and remove warm milk from heat. If the milk is releasing smoke or you feel it has heated up too much, no problem just let it sit for 2 minutes to warm. Add warm milk into yeast and sugar mixture and mix and let the bowl sit for 10 minutes so the yeast can wake up and absorb sugar.
4. While your bowl with the milk and yeast mixture is sitting, in a separate mixing bowl add salt, flour, and remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Though the ingredients at top call for 2 1/4 cup flour, use two cups of flour for this step and leave the 1/4 cup for kneading.
5. At this point, your yeast mixture has sat enough and should have formed and look like oatmeal or a brown blob with bubbles if you let it sit for long enough. Using a rubber spatula, make a well inside the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients. A, well in case you didn’t know,is when you push off your ingredients to the side of the pan and leave a open gap in the middle in the pan. Add yeast mixture into gap.
6. Before mixing, add the canola oil on top of the yeast mixture in the well and mix.
7. Mix until the batter begins to turn sticky and form into a ball. Once the dough is formed and well mixed into a dough ball, cover top with a towel and place the bowl in a warm environment such as your un-preheated oven and let dough in bowl sit for 30 minutes.
8. After your dough has sat for 30 minutes, remove from war, environment and remove towel from bowl and your dough should have increased in volume or have rised if not doubled in size. Use half of your remaining 1/4 cup of flour and lightly dust a work space with flour and remove the dough from bowl into work space.
9. Add remaining flour on top of dough and slowly but gently, begin to knead the dough and press it and rolled it around with your fingers. Tip: for kneading dough, flour your hands as well so when you are kneading, the dough will not stick to your hand and kneading will become easier.
your dough should look like below once you have properly knead it. Smooth but not sticky.
10. Once knead, using a bench scraper or butter knife, cut your dough in half. From there cut dough into four pieces and from there, begin to cut each piece of dough into numerous tiny chunks so you at least have 20 to 25 small chunks of dough. Son;t worry if it is too small, this stuff rises in the oven a lot!
Now that we have our dough cut out into 20 bite size pieces, lets get started on the coating.
For bread coating:
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 stick of salted butter
1. In sauce pan, melt half stick of salted butter, once melted set aside.
2. Pour a very tiny amount of the melted butter (leaving the rest for later) in a 9 by 5 inch bread pan and using an empty butter wrapper, spread and rub the melted butter around the pan to grease.
3. In a bowl, add sugar and cinnamon and stir. Also, at this point you should preheat oven to 350 degrees.
7. For this next special step, grab one of your dough chunks and using your hand, roll it into a ball. Once a ball, dip the dough into the remaining melted butter to get it all wet. Then, roll the greased up dough ball into the bowl of the cinnamon sugar mix so the ball is well coated.
8. Stick your cinnamon coated dough ball into the corner of the pan and repeat step 7 until all dough pieces are buttered up and cinnamon sugar coated and attached onto the pan neatly.
9. This step is optional but I recommend it. Cover prepared pan with the bread with a towel and let it sit for 15 minutes so it can rise a little more. After 15 minutes, remove towel and place prepared bread pan into preheated 350 degree oven and let the monkey bread baked for 20 minutes.
10. After 20 minutes, remove the pan from the oven and your baked monkey bread bread should look as below.
Turn bread pan over and transfer Monkey bread to a drying rack or counter so it can cool. Note if the dough below looks different than the pictures aboe this sentence, that’s because the pictures above show how the top of the bread looks, the picture below shoves the loaf turned upside down so naturally it browned more. It’s still the same bread from the pictures above. Easily pull a chunk off and enjoy cinnamon monkey bread. It’s delicous!
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