monkey bread
Sweet and sticky Monkey Bread, as seen on Oprah!
Monkey Bread (Similar to Oprah’s)
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup Karo corn syrup
- Water , as needed
- 5 Tbsp. butter
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp. Saigon cinnamon
- 2 ounces fresh yeast
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup warm water
- Bloomed yeast
- 1 egg
- 4 oz. (1 stick) butter
- 2¼ cup whole wheat flour
- 2¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Mix cinnamon and sugar, set aside for later.
- To bloom yeast: Mix yeast, water and honey for 10 minutes until it become foamy in texture.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Knead all ingredients in mixer with a dough hook until the dough comes together and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, about 5-8 minutes.
- Remove dough and knead on a floured surface until smooth and elastic.
- Let the dough rise in warm spot until doubled in size, punch down and rise again for another 30 minutes.
- Cut out 1-ounce pieces and roll into ball shape.
- Brush pan with melted butter and lightly coat pan with cinnamon sugar.
- Place dough balls in Bundt pan.
- Begin to stack dough balls on top of each other until the bottom of the pan is covered, brush each layer with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar, repeat layers (2-3 layers high).
- Fill the Bundt pan about half way with dough, place in the pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes at 350F.
- Rotate every 10 minutes.
- Monkey Bread will double in size once baked.
- Remove and let cool for 10 minutes, turn Bundt pan over onto a plate, spoon caramel sauce over and serve.