Monkey bread

[noracharles]

Monkey bread is a pull-apart coffee/dessert cake type thing, made by baking small pieces of white bread dough in a sugar and butter sauce. Some people add cinnamon, nuts or raisins, and, for some strange reason, some people use margarine instead of butter.

Has anyone tried it? Is it sort of like extra gooey cinnamon rolls? I've been on a caramel kick recently, and the youtube videos of that caramelized sauce lovingly clinging to the fluffy sweet buns make my mouth water. But when I think of trying out the recipe, it doesn't really seem worth it compared to just buying a single cinnamon roll in the store.

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[noracharles]

I don't have any specific recipe in mind. I googled monkey bread after hearing it mentioned, and there appears to be many different ways of making it.

Hmmm. I'm not sure if I want it to be gooey? Do you like monkey bread?

[rhivolution]

It's okay. We had it every so often in my college dining hall (better food than it sounds), but it was always a bit of a let down for me expecting cinnamon rolls, I guess.

It's good, but it's not...as sweet as I anticipated.

[noracharles]

LOL, it makes no sense, since I've never been to your college dining hall, but immediately I want monkey bread less :-)

I do eat the cakes and danishes the cafeteria bakes at my uni, but they're kind of bland.

Thank you for telling me about it. I'll probably stick with cinnamon rolls, spare myself both effort and disappointment.