Whole Wheat Bread Monkey Bread Food

HEALTHIER MONKEY BREAD I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
• Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a plastic bag. Cut pizza dough into 1 1/2-inch pieces. Shake 6 to 8 pieces of dough in the sugar-cinnamon mix. Arrange pieces in bottom of prepared pan. Continue until all dough pieces are coated and placed in pan. Arrange nuts and raisins in and among dough pieces.
• Melt butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over dough; let rise for 30 minutes.
• Bake in preheated oven until bread is golden brown, about 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Pull apart pieces of bread to eat.

WHOLE WHEAT BREAD MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Move oven rack to the lowest position.
• Grease 2 8x4'' loaf pans.
• Stir all of the ingredients in a large bowl until well blended.
• Pour evenly into pans. Sprinkle each filled pan with 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
• Bake loaves 50-60 mins or til tooth pick comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes, and remove bread from pans, and place top side up on wire rack.
• Cool completely on wire rack, about 2 hours.
• Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days or refrigerate up to 10 days.

WHOLE WHEAT BREAD - HOW TO MAKE WITH TANGZHONG METHOD

Steps:

• Measure the white flour in a small pot.
• Add cold water and place over low heat and heat it until the starch turns semi-translucent and thicken.
• Remove from heat. Let it cools before adding to the dough.
• Scale the water and the flour required into the mixing bowl.
• Mix gently to autolyze at room temperature for two hours. (Note: I found using only water and flour to autolyze yields a better result, so this step is different from what is shown in the video which aI made earlier.)
• After two hours, combine the water/flour with tangzhong, sugar, salt, and yeast, and butter.
• Use the food processor to blend it for one minute.
• Let it ferment at room temperature until it doubles its size.
• Divide the dough to the desired amount for each loaf. Rest for fifteen minutes.
• Roll out the dough and then shape it into loaves or buns.
• Let it rise at room temperature until it doubles its size.
• Brush the loaf with egg wash or water before baking.
• Bake the bread at 175°C/350°F.for thirty-five minutes or until the top turns golden brown.

WHOLE WHEAT MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Start yeast in warm water, with a pinch of the sugar and flour.
• Melt 1/4 cup margarine and 1/3 cup of sugar with milk, cool to lukewarm.
• beat eggs.
• Mix all liquids (of course, make sure milk/margarine/sugar are cool enough so the yeast does not stunt).
• Add two cups of whole wheat flour, beat slowly for 2 minutes.
• Add remaining flour and 1T cinnamon and beat for two minutes - dough will be sticky.
• Cover and let rise (1-1:30 hours).
• Punch down, melt remaining 1/3 cup margarine and 1 cup sugar together with 1T cinnamon.
• Grab sticky chunks of dough, roll into a ball (1-2 inch), dip/roll in margarine & sugar and drop into oiled bunt pan (other pans work fine too, you just get more crusty exposures with a bunt).
• Stack balls loosely until all dough is used.
• Top with remaining butter/sugar/cinnamon mixture and pecans.
• cover and let rise 30 minute.
• Bake at 375 for 30 min (or 18 in convection ovens).
• Invert onto a serving plate and serve warm! These don't last long, because they're so good. This technique can also be used for pull apart dinner rolls, cheddar&chive biscuits, or other bread products to share. Just be sure to roll each ball in some sort of oil so that they will develop seams where they tear easily.

BREAD MACHINE MONKEY PULL APARTS

Steps:

• Add ingredients to your bread maker, according to manufacturer's instructions.
• Process on Dough Cycle.
• Remove dough from machine at end of dough cycle.
• Using glaze ingredients, Grease tube pan with 2 T butter.
• Sprinkle pan with 2 T brown sugar.
• Mix remaining brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Melt remaining 4 T butter.
• Divide dough into 12 pieces.
• Roll in melted butter then into brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Arrange dough in layers.
• Let rise in warm place 30 minutes or until doubled.
• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Bake 25-30 minutes.
• Turn out of pan immediately.