MONKEY BREAD

Monkey Bread is sweet, soft and delicious pull apart bread recipe prepared using flour, cinnamon, sugar, butter and milk in bundt pan.

I have made this bread from scratch. Its was fun preparing this beautiful bread and the end result was big hit 🙂 It is really hard to resist. This can be served for breakfast or even as a treat.

Every time I visit grocery store to buy veggies I see this bread with different flavors. I wanted to try it at home instead of buying it from store. I checked online for different recipe and was inspired from the video posted by sortedfood.

Preparation time : 3 hours
Serves : 10 inch bundt cake

Ingredients for Monkey Bread

For the dough
White Sugar - ¾ cup
Warm milk - 2 cup
All purpose flour -  5cup
Cardamom powder - ¼ tsp
Active dry yeast - 1 ½ packet
Salt - ½ tsp

For coating
Brown sugar - 1 cup
Cinnamon powder - 1 tbsp
Unsalted Butter - 1 stick

For syrup
White sugar - 1 cup
Water - ½ cup
Cardamom powder - ¼ tsp

For topping
Roasted cashews and almonds - 2 tbsp

Steps to prepare Monkey Bread

Step I

• In a large bowl add warm milk, teaspoon of sugar and sprinkle active dry yeast into it. Cover, and let the yeast activate. This will take approximately 10 minutes.
• Now add remaining sugar, cardamom, salt and flour and mix it using a wooden spoon till you have a dough. Then knead it for atleast 10 minutes until the dough is soft and elastic.
• Grease a large bowl with vegetable oil. Transfer the dough and cover it. Place it in a warm place for about 1 hour or until the dough is doubled in size.

Step II

• In a plate add sugar and cinnamon powder and mix well. In another bowl melt the butter. Also grease the bundt pan with butter.
• Once the dough is doubled in size, take small pieces of dough and roll them to lemon sized balls.
• Roll each ball in the melted butter, then the sugar cinnamon mixture and drop it in bundt pan. Keep repeating the process until all the dough is used up.
• Cover this and keep it in warm place for 30 to 40 minutes or until it is doubled in size.

Step III

• Preheat the oven for 350 degree F and bake for about 35 to 40 minutes or until done. Let it cool down for about 10 minutes. Then run knife round the pan and turn it on to serving plate.

Step IV

• In large bowl add sugar and water and heat till you see the bubble. Now add the cardamom powder.
• Drizzle this syrup on the bread and garnish it with roasted almond and cashews.

Monkey Bread is ready. Pull apart to serve and enjoy!