Pull Apart Monkey Bread (From Scratch)
This pull apart monkey bread is made with gooey, buttery dough balls coated in cinnamon sugar and brown sugar sauce. It tastes just like the middle part of a cinnamon roll, which is the best part!
Ingredients
- 5 cups Flour
- 1 tablespoon Instant yeast
- ¼ cups Granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 2 Eggs
- 80 g Butter melted and cooled
- 1 ½ cups Milk room temperature
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Cinnamon sugar coating
- 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
- 1 cup Granulated sugar
- 115 g Butter or 1 stick of butter
Brown sugar sauce
- 115 g Butter
- ½ cup Brown sugar light or dark brown sugar
Instructions
- In a bowl of a stand mixer, add the flour, dry yeast, and granulated sugar. Mix with a spoon until combined. Add the salt, and mix until combined.
- Add the eggs, room-temperature milk, vanilla extract, and cooled melted butter. Start mixing on low until the dough forms.
- Increase the speed to medium and mix for at least 8 minutes or until the dough is smooth and silky.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise at room temperature for 1-2 hours or until it’s doubled in size (or even tripled in size).
- Prepare a 12-cup bundt cake with softened butter to prevent the dough from sticking to the pan.
- Punch the dough down and transfer it to a clean floured surface. Sprinkle flour generously on the dough and roll it into a ¼-inch thick rectangle, making sure that the bottom of the dough doesn’t stick to the surface.
- Using your clean hands, pull small pieces of the dough (use flour if the dough is sticky) and shape each dough piece into a ball.
- Dip each ball in melted butter and coat it with cinnamon sugar. Place in the bundt pan until you run out of dough and the pan is filled.
- Cover the pan with a towel or plastic wrap and let it rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- Quickly make the brown sugar sauce: in a small mixing bowl, add the melted butter and brown sugar and mix well with a spoon until well combined. Pour the sauce over the dough balls.
- Bake in a 180c (350f) preheated oven for 30-40 minutes, depending on the oven until the dough balls have risen and the tops are golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes. Top the pan with a plate, flip the cake and tap the cake pan to release the cake from the pan.
Notes
- Do not wait to release the bread from the bundt pan! Let it cool for 5 minutes and immediately flip the bread from the pan onto a large plate.
- Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs and milk. This step ensures that your dough mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly.
- Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
- Don't overheat your milk! Overheating your milk is one of the most common mistakes in making yeasted dough. If you heat your milk over 110f, it might kill your yeast and stop your dough from rising.
- Make sure that your ingredients are fresh! Make sure that your flour and yeast are fresh and not expired. This step ensures that you will have the great dough to work with.
- Be patient! Let the dough rise at least until it doubles its size. The more the dough rises, the more fluffy the monkey bread will be.
- Make sure that your yeast isn’t expired. You can check if your yeast is expired by mixing a teaspoon of dry yeast with ¼ cup of room temperature water, waiting 10 minutes, and if the yeast has bubbles in it and it puffed a bit, your yeast is alive and good, if there are no bubbles in your yeast mixture, your yeast is probably expired.
Nutrition
Calories: 522kcalCarbohydrates: 72gProtein: 8gFat: 23gSaturated Fat: 14gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 86mgSodium: 386mgPotassium: 137mgFiber: 2gSugar: 31gVitamin A: 737IUVitamin C: 0.03mgCalcium: 70mgIron: 3mg
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