Serves 8
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time: 2-3 hours
MONKEY BREAD is a knotty-looking loaf of sweet bread made from balls of dough coated with cinnamon, sugar, and melted butter. It’s traditionally served warm so that the sticky baked pieces can be pulled apart. The name “monkey” refers to how you eat this sweet treat-with your hands.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter,
- melted and cooled
- Vegetable oil spray
- 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1 pound pizza dough, room temperature [store-bought]
Cooking Equipment
- 3 small bowls
- 8-inch round cake pan
- Ruler
- Kitchen shears
- plastic wrap
- Oven mitts
- Cooling rack
- Large plate
- Spoon
What to do:
- In small bowl, stir together brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Place melted butter in second small bowl. Spray 8-inch round cake pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Spray counter lightly with vegetable oil spray.
- Place dough on greased counter and pat into 6-inch square. Use kitchen shears to cut dough into 36
- pieces roll each piece of dough into ball.
- Dip each ball in melted butter to coat, roll in brown sugar mixture, then place in greased pan.
- Cover bottom of pan with dough balls in single layer.
- Cover pans tightly with plastic wrap and leave in warm place until dough balls are puffy and have risen slightly (about 1/2 inch), 1 to 2 hours.
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Discard plastic.
- Place pan in oven and bake until top of monkey bread is light golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to remove monkey bread from oven (ask an adult to help).
- Place pan on cooling rack and let monkey bread cool for 5 minutes (no longer).
- Place large plate on top of pan. Ask an adult to carefully flip out monkey bread onto plate.
- Remove pan. Let cool for 10 minutes before glazing.
- In third small bowl, stir confectioners’ sugar and milk until smooth.
- Use spoon to drizzle glaze over monkey bread. Serve warm.
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