Tracy's Monkey Bread
Why do monkeys like bread so much? Probably because of Tracy's Monkey Bread recipe using the Traditional White Bucket from Bucket of Bread available for pick up in-store or shipped to Anytown in Everywhere, USA.
Equipment
- Baking pan/Bundt pan (ideally)
Ingredients
- 1-1½ Traditional White Bucket of Bread brand dough Handfuls
- ½ Cup Sugar
- 1-2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 stick Butter
- ¼ Cup Brown Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
- Melt butter and combine the brown sugar heating on low until it starts to bubble.
- Roll dough into 1-inch balls (amount depends on pan size)
- Add dough balls to the sugar/cinnamon mixture ensuring they are fully covered.
- Place dough balls into a lightly greased baking pan or ideally a small Bundt pan.
- Pour the hot butter and brown sugar mixture over the top of dough balls.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Prepare for the Monkey Invasion as this cools.
- Eat it up!
Video
Notes
Thank you, Tracy, for inspiring and sharing your Bucket of Bread Monkey Bread on a Facebook recommendation!
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Random Internet Facts:
- Did you know? In 1982, former First Lady, Nancy Reagan, commented to White House Staff that monkey bread was named as such, “because when you make it, you have to monkey around with it.”
- The term monkey bread, initially referring to a loaf formed from pieces of yeast dough dipped into butter, seems to have emerged or was at least popularized in southern California in the 1940s. It was a rich savory bread, sometimes accompanied with jam or preserves, requiring no knives to serve.
- Monkey bread is a soft, sweet, sticky pastry served in the United States for breakfast or as a treat. It consists of pieces of soft baked dough sprinkled with cinnamon. It is often served at fairs and festivals.
- The origin of this bread can be tracked to many centuries back when sweet yeast rolls were prepared and eaten during special occasions. The Middle Eastern cooks were the first ones to prepare sweet, buttery rolls with sugar and cinnamon. The recipes for such spicy and sweet rolls were popularized by crusaders, explorers, traders and travelers who traveled from one place to the other place. Many of the popular bread variations are observed throughout the world. It is believed that French galette, German Kuchen, Pennsylvanian Dutch Sticky buns, along with bubble loaf might have descended from the same recipe.
- Monkey bread gets its name by the method in which it is eaten: picking off chunks of buttery, gooey dough with your fingers not unlike a monkey grooming his buddy (which is actually a weird thing to name a food after, if you really think about it.)
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