Description
This homemade monkey bread is made with soft yeast dough and baked in a buttery brown sugar cinnamon glaze. A fluffy, pull-apart breakfast that’s better than canned biscuits and perfect for feeding a crowd.
Ingredients
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Homemade Yeast Dough
- 3/4 cup warm milk
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1 tsp salt
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup cane sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 1 tsp nutmeg
Powdered Sugar Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Make Yeast Dough: In the bowl of a stand mixer, add your warm milk (heated to about 110°F) and sprinkle in active dry yeast. Let the yeast activate for 3-5 minutes. You’ll know it’s active when it starts to bubble.
- When yeast is active, add in sugar, egg, melted butter and mix with the dough hook until combined.
- Using a low speed, stir in bread flour and salt until combined.
- Increase the speed of the mixer to medium to knead dough. When a dough ball forms, remove from the mixing bowl and knead by hand on a floured surface for 5-10 minutes.
- Lightly grease a bowl with some olive oil and place the dough ball in the bowl to rise. Cover with a clean towel and set in a warm place (oven with light on, microwave, countertop) to let rise for 1-2 hours. Or until it has doubled in size.
- When your dough has doubled in size, punch down the dough ball to release some air. Roll out into a long thin log and slice into 1-inch pieces. Roll each dough piece into a ball.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF and generously grease a bundt pan before you start preparing your butter and sugar coating.
- Melt 1 stick of butter in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl, mix sugars and spices together until combined. Sprinkle the bunt pan with sugar or brown sugar to coat the edges – this will make the outside caramelized and delicious as it bakes!
- Dip each dough ball in butter first, then in the spiced sugar toss into the bundt pan. Continue to coat and add dough balls to the bundt pan – starting in a single layer and then adding more layers on until all dough balls are added to pan.
- You should have some remaining melted butter and sugar in your bowls. Combine the sugar in with the butter and stir around. Pour the buttery mixture evenly over the top of your dough.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes until golden brown on top and cooked all the way through.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes. Option to add a powdered sugar glaze on top.
- Powdered sugar glaze: Mix together powdered sugar, vanilla and milk in a bowl until thin glaze forms. Spoon out and drizzle over the top of the monkey bread.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 40 minutes