Apartment Finder: Monkey Bread Recipe

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Monkey Bread Recipe

Monkey bread is composed of little balls of dough all stuck together and baked. Made in a cake pan or ring pan, the result is a pretty loaf that can be easily pulled apart by gangs of monkeys. Or at least that’s what I imagined until I went to Wikipedia and saw that it was probably named for a tree. I like the “torn apart by monkeys” theory a little better. Or maybe it’s called Monkey Bread because it’s so easy a monkey could make it? Several versions are made with canned biscuit dough, canned cinnamon roll dough or frozen dough. After making this scratch version, which is savory (many versions are sweet and more suited for breakfast), I’m looking forward to trying one of the convenience recipes — one where I don’t have to worry about killing any yeast or pulling out my stand mixer with the dough hook.