Abu's Monkey Bread

lightly adapted from Disney Princess Cookbook, recipe by Cynthia Littlefield, Disney Press, 2013, USA, pg 26-27

I was very surprised when my son came home from school with a Disney Princess Cookbook!  I guess I shouldn't have been surprised since he loves everything Disney and he likes to eat!  We picked out a bunch of recipes he thought looked tasty.  Here is the first one we made.  And it was tasty!

3 c flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 c cold butter
1 1/4 c milk
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 c white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
6 tbsp butter, melted

1.  Heat the oven to 375 degrees.  Spray a nonstick fluted tube pan with cooking spray.

2.  In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt.  With a table knife cut the butter into small pieces.  Use your fingertips (or a tool like the one below) to mix the butter in the flour mixture.  Then stir in the milk.  

3.  Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead it for about 5 seconds.  Pull off pieces of the dough and shape them into golf ball-size pieces.

4.  Mix the brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon together in an 8 x 8 pan. 

5.  One at a time, dip the dough balls into the melted butter, roll them in the sugar mixture and place them in the prepared pan.  Stack the balls on top of one another until the pan is full.

6.  Bake the monkey bread for 20 to 25 minutes.  Set the bread aside to cool for about 10 minutes.

7.  Use a small spatula to gently loosen the bread from the sides of the pan.  Place a serving dish face down on top of the fluted pan.  Hold the dish and pan together securely and flip them over.  Slowly lift the pan off the plate and release the monkey bread.

8.  Pull off pieces and enjoy!  You may want to have a tall glass of milk nearby!

My 4 year-old loved helping with making this treat.  Rolling the dough into balls and then rolling them around in the sugar was so fun for him!  

Boys say:  thumbs up!