Monkey Bread.

[velvetpage]

Okay, guys, this stuff is fabulous. sassy_fae and I just made some (which is to say, she soothed the baby and directed while I made the monkey bread, thereby protecting her sore foot from too much walking.) Here we are, recipe and variations:

1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups buttermilk (or 1tbsp + 1tsp lemon juice, and fill up the container to 1 1/2 cups milk.)
2 1/2 cups flour
1tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1 cup raisins or other dried fruit.

QotD: "Raisins for the unimaginative." sassy_fae We used dried apricots and figs.

Take three empty 14 oz cans, if you can find three that have no plastic in them. If you can't, large ceramic mugs work as well; that's what I used. Grease them. Mix everything together. Fill your receptacles about 3/4 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. (The recipe says 40-50, but I took them out nearly ten minutes early and they were perfect.) Serve warm - not that you'll have much choice once the other people in your house get a whiff of these things. Butter improves them.

Comments

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so adding this to my recipe collection.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Can I steal that icon?

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, but please credit me. That's a cake (http://snobahr.livejournal.com/326312.html) *I* baked :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

I have to go to the grocery store for the makings of stuffed peppers anyways, so I am going to go grab some dried fruit and try it! Do you think apple chunks would work with a dash of cinnamon?

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Practically anything would work. We briefly considered trying fresh blueberries, too, but decided they were better consumed fresh. And a dash of cinnamon in this would be wonderful.

[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

MONKEY BREAD

1 tbsp. yeast
1/2 c. sugar
2 c. warm water
1 tsp. salt
2 beaten eggs
6 c. flour
4 tbsp. oil
1 cube butter

Mix first 4 ingredients, let rest 5 minutes. Mix in eggs, then half of flour, then oil. Add remaining flour. Let rise until double, 20 minutes. Dough will be sticky. Melt 1 cube butter in Bundt pan. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut with doughnut cutter. Coat with butter and stack in pan, standing up against each other. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.


1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups buttermilk (or 1tbsp + 1tsp lemon juice, and fill up the container to 1 1/2 cups milk.)
2 1/2 cups flour
1tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1 cup raisins or other dried fruit.

QotD: "Raisins for the unimaginative." [info]sassy_fae We used dried apricots and figs.

Take three empty 14 oz cans, if you can find three that have no plastic in them. If you can't, large ceramic mugs work as well; that's what I used. Grease them. Mix everything together. Fill your receptacles about 3/4 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. (The recipe says 40-50, but I took them out nearly ten minutes early and they were perfect.) Serve warm - not that you'll have much choice once the other people in your house get a whiff of these things. Butter improves them.

Sorry, just taking up space in your journal. I found another recipe for Monkey bread, and I was wanting to compare how they turn out, the idea of being able to pull it apart appeals to me, so I will try both (seeing as I have yeast in the fridge anyways) and will let you know what happens. The pull apart type I think would be better for in car travel as snacks. What do you think?

[melstra.livejournal.com]

Sorry for jumping in! I've had the pull apart type a few times-- but made with refrigerated canned rolls (the kind in tubes) rather than homemade bread--and soaked not just in butter but also in cinnamon sugar. I imagine it would be even yummier with homemade bread, but the principle is the same.

The problem with pull-apart bread for car travel is that they're WAAAAAAY sticky, at least the way I've seen it made. If you left out any hint of sugar and they were simply pull-apart rolls, they'd probably be far neater. But where's the fun in that? GRIN!

Thanks for sharing.