Whole Wheat Monkey Bread Recipes

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 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.