Monkey Bread II

Description

Here is a recipe for a bread machine, though it can easily be done in the conventional, muscle building way. You use the dough only setting and do the rest by hand. For machines that do 1 1/2 – 2 pound capacity.

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons margarine, softened
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup raisins

Instructions

  1. Remove the baking pan from the machine. Place yeast
  2. flour
  3. cinnamon
  4. salt
  5. white sugar
  6. 2 tablespoons margarine
  7. and water in the order recommended for the bread machine. Make sure that no liquid comes in contact with yeast. Select dough cycle and press start.
  8. Transfer dough to a floured surface; knead 10 to 12 times. Set aside to rest.
  9. Melt 1 cup margarine in a medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in brown sugar and raisins until smooth. Remove from heat.
  10. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a Bundt or tube pan.
  11. Cut dough into 1-inch chunks. Drop a chunk at a time into brown sugar mixture to thoroughly coat. Layer dough pieces loosely in the prepared pan
  12. staggering layers
  13. so you’re plopping each dough chunk over a space between two below. Let rise in a warm
  14. draft-free spot until dough is just over the top of the pan
  15. 15 to 20 minutes.
  16. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown
  17. 20 to 25 minutes.
  18. Remove from the oven and cover the pan with a plate. Holding the plate and the pan with oven mitts
  19. flip over both until bread slides out onto the plate. Serve warm.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 12

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