Monkey Bread Recipe

Monkey Bread or Sticky Buns Recipe with Step by Step Pictures. Monkey bread makes the best christmas morning breakfast option. This soft buns has a buttery texture and a caramel cinnamony sticky sauce.  Cinnamon Sticky Buns are just divine.

Why Monkey Bread is called as Monkey Bread?

The origin of the term “monkey bread” comes from the pastry being a finger food; the consumer would pick apart the bread as a monkey would.

An easy version of monkey bread is made using store bought biscuit can. But making your own dough for it is not only therapeutic but is so worth it.

Monkey Bread Recipe

 

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Prep time

30 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

40 mins

 

Monkey Bread is a light airy rolls coated with cinnamon sugar and then baked with a brown sugar butter sauce poured over it. Which creates a caramel sticky bread.

Author: Aarthi

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: German

Ingredients

FOR DOUGH:

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 2 cups
• Egg - 1
• Dry Yeast - 2 tsp
• Sugar - 1 tblsp
• Melted Butter - 2 tblsp
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Warm Water as needed

FOR CINNAMON SUGAR BUTTER:

• Sugar - ¾ cup
• Cinnamon Powder - 1 tblsp
• Melted Butter - ½ cup
• Walnuts - ½ cup chopped finely

FOR SAUCE:

• Butter - ¼ cup
• Brown Sugar - ¾ cup
• Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

Instructions

1. First lets make the dough. Take flour, salt in a bowl and mix well.
2. Take yeast, sugar in a bowl. Add warm water and mix well, Leave to activate for 5 mins.
3. Now add egg, melted butter and yeast mix to the flour and knead to a soft dough. Add warm water as needed. Cover and leave aside to rise for 1 to 2 hours untill double in size.
4. Now make cinnamon sugar to coat the bread. Mix cinnamon, sugar and walnuts and set aside.
5. In a separate bowl melt butter and set aside.
6. Now snip small portion of the dough using a scissors. Dip it in melted butter and coat in cinnamon sugar and place in a bundt cake pan. Cover and leave to rise for 30 mins.
7. Mix together butter, brown sugar, vanilla together to form a sauce.
8. Pour this over the buns and bake it in oven for 35 to 40 mins.
9. Once baked remove from oven and cool for 5 mins,
10. Carefully unmould.
11. Serve warm.

Notes

1)The dough can be made a day in advance and stored in fridge.
2)You can bake the buns and store in a air tight container in fridge.
3)Warm it in microwave for few seconds before serving.
4)Serve it with extra caramel sauce.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 460

3.5.3251

1)Take yeast in a bowl

2)Add sugar

3)Add warm water and let it activate

4)Now it is foamy

5)Take all purpose flour in a bowl

6)Add in salt

7)Mix well

8)Add in eggs

9)Add in melted butter

10)Add in yeast mix

11)Add in warm water

12)Knead to a soft dough

13)Now the dough is done

14)Cover and leave aside

15)Now the dough is risen

16)Take sugar in a bowl

17)Add in cinnamon powder

18)Add walnuts

19)Mix well

20)Take a bundt pan

21)Melt some butter

22)Snip a piece from the dough. Scissors is best

23)Dip it in the butter

24)Coat it

25)Roll it in sugar

26)Coat well

27)Place in the pan

28)Arrange it like this

29)Leave to rise for few mins

30)Take melted butter in a bowl

31)Add vanilla

32)Add brown sugar and mix well

33)Pour over the buns

33)Time to bake

34)Baked

35)Unmould

36)look at that sticky sauce

37)Serve.