William Pollock's Eat Happy: Monkey Bread

Yield:

12 servings

Notes

Sadly no monkey is included in monkey bread. The bread does, however, pull apart charmingly and has a lovely crust. The basic recipe requires a bundt pan or ring mold: the outside requires the pan be pretty narrow to ensure the maximum amount of exposed space on the bread. I'd imagine while pie pans would generally be out, anything with a width around 2.5-3" might work as well (think small loaf pans, brioche pans, etc).

A good, but not truly extraordinary bread, it does appear to have other legs: coating the balls in cinnamon sugar and topping with cream cheese icing allegedly tastes "just like a Cinnabon!", not that I'd know either way.

Ingredients

1 cup	milk
2 pkg	dry yeast
4 Tbl	sugar
1 tsp	salt
3/4	melted butter, divided
3 1/2 cup	sifted flour
1 egg	slightly beaten
1/4 cup	melted butter
1/4 cup	oil

Preparation

Scald milk and allow to cool to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in scalded milk in a large bowl. Beat in sugar, salt, 1/2 cup of the melted butter, flour and egg.

Let double in a warm place and punch down. On a floured board, divide and form dough into 1 1/2" to 2" balls.

Mix remaining 1/4 cup melted butter with oil and dip each piece in a Arrange in a a 9-inch ring mold or bundt pan and let rise until almost double. Bake 400F for 18-30 minutes or until golden brown. Turn hot pan over a plate and allow ring to drop out.

Primary Category:

Bread

Source:

From "Sharing Our Favorites: the Dana Guild, Senshin Buddhist Church, Los Angeles, CA" -- Maurice C. Allen, Sr., page 48.