Best Raisin Nut Monkey Bread Recipes

APPLE CINNAMON RAISIN NUT FILLED MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Fill a large bowl with warmed milk,and stir in yeast. Let sit 5 minutes. Add eggs,salt,and sugar.Mix well. Add melted butter and 1/2 of the flour .mix together, and add the remaining flour Stir until combined
• Put dough in to greased bowl cover with towel. Set aside and let it rise until doubled in size. 1 -2 hours Note: You can speed up the rising process by heating your oven to 100 degree's. Shut it off and put dough in bowl in oven. watch it rise!!
• Spring form pan with parchment paper, if you have it. If not grease it real well. I use a spring form pan for the depth. Start getting your other ingredients together for filling. don't forget to pre heat oven to 350 degree's
• melt the butter put aside.In another bowl Mix sugars and cinnamon together.
• Get your dough that has risen. Pinch off some dough and start making balls about the size of a doughnut hole.keep making dough balls until dough is gone.
• Now dip your dough balls in the melted butter and put in the sugar cinnamon mixture and coat well.
• Start placing your dough balls around the inside of the pan until half of dough balls are used.
• Make your filling. Take your apples,raisins,and nuts mix together with sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle it on top of dough ball in pan all the way around.
• Top with remaining sugar coated dough balls.Sprinkle with remaining filling and slightly press in to dough. Dough will raise again with in 15 minutes after handling. Put in oven and bake at 350 degree's 35 -40 minutes,or until not doughy any longer.
• make the streusel topping. Mix all ingredients together until crumbly. You can also put it in a food processor to quicken this. I use my Ninja.
• Top dough with streusel and bake at 350 degree's for 50-60 minutes or until golden brown.
• take out of oven cool for a bit,and turn upside down on to plate. At this time. You can make a simple icing with a box of confection sugar,and a few tablespoons of milk. and drizzle over top or eat as. is.

RAISIN-NUT MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• In a 1-quart saucepan heat the milk until it just comes to a boil; stir in 1/4 cup butter until melted.
• Cool until just warm (105 - 115°F).
• In a large mixer bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water.
• Add the cooled milk mixture, 2 cups flour, 1/4 cup sugar, egg and salt.
• Beat at medium speed, scraping the bowl often, until smooth (1 to 2 minutes).
• By hand, stir in enough of the remaining flour to make the dough easy to handle.
• Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes).
• Place in a greased bowl; turn the greased side up.
• Cover, let rise in a warm place until doubled in size (about 1-1/2 hours.).
• The dough is ready if an indentation remains when touched.
• Punch down the dough; divide in half.
• With floured hands, shape each half into 24 balls.
• In a small bowl stir together 1 cup sugar, pecans and cinnamon.
• Dip the balls first into the melted butter, then into the sugar mixture.
• Place 24 balls in the bottom of a greased 10-inch tube pan or Bundt pan - if using the tube pan, line the bottom with aluminum foil.
• Sprinkle with raisins.
• Top with the remaining 24 balls, after dipping them into the butter and sugar mixtures.
• Cover; let rise until doubled in size (about 45 minutes).
• Heat the oven to 375°F.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the monkey bread sounds hollow when tapped.
• Immediately invert the pan onto a heatproof serving plate.
• Let the pan stand 1 minute to allow the sugar mixture to drizzle over the monkey bread.
• Remove the pan; serve warm (leftovers can be reheated nicely in the microwave).