Cinnamon Raisin Monkey Bread Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add milk, 1/3 cup sugar, oil, salt and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Add raisins and enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/4 hours. , Punch dough down. On a lightly floured surface, divide in half. Roll each into a 15x7-in. rectangle. Combine cinnamon and remaining sugar; sprinkle over dough. Sprinkle with water. Starting with a short side, roll up tightly, jelly-roll style. Pinch seams and ends to seal. Place, seam side down, in two greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. , Preheat oven to 350°. Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm loaves.

Steps:

• Combine warm water, brown sugar, and yeast in a large mixing bowl and let rest until frothy, about 10 minutes. Add 1/2 cup oil and stir. Set aside.
• Sift flour and salt together in a bowl.
• Mix flour mixture into the yeast mixture and knead until dough forms a sticky ball. Coat the inside of another bowl with oil; transfer dough to the oiled bowl and turn to coat. Cover the bowl and let dough rest in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, mix white sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Oil a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Punch down risen dough and roll into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture and arrange a layer in the prepared tube pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and drizzle with a bit of oil. Continue layering with remaining dough balls and cinnamon sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven until puffed up, about 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix confectioners' sugar and milk together in a bowl. Drizzle glaze generously over the warm monkey bread.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces; shape into balls. In a small bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon. Roll each ball in cinnamon sugar. Arrange evenly in a generously greased 9- or 10-in. fluted tube pan. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar., Combine butter and brown sugar; pour over the top. Place tube pan on baking sheet; bake until dough is golden brown and cooked through, 35-45 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before inverting bread onto a serving platter.

Steps:

• In a large bowl dissolve the yeast in warm water. Let it sit for about 5 minutes. Add milk, oil, 1/4 cup sugar, egg, 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour and raisins. Mix thoroughly with a wire wisk.
• Add enough remaining white flour to make the dough easy to handle. Turn on a grease bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for about 1 1/2 hours.
• On the mean time mix sugar and cinnamon on a bowl. Melt butter and place on another bowl.
• Divide the dough in half. Each half should make between 20-24 balls. Dip each balls first into the melted butter then into the sugar mixture.
• Place 24 balls in the bottom of a grease Bundt pan. Top with remaining balls after dipping into the butter and sugar mixture. Cover and let rise for another 45 minutes.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Mix remainder sugar mixture and butter and pour over cake. Bake for about 35-45 minutes until bread sounds hollow when tapped.
• Immediately invert the pan on a heat proof serving plate and let stand for one minute. Remove pan and serve.

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).