Easy Homemade Monkey Bread (2 Ways)

Homemade monkey bread should be the greatest bite of bread you've ever had. Not only are we going to do that, but we are using homemade dough to bring it all home. Masala sticky caramel for the sweet, and sesame garlic Parmigiano for the savory.

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Ingredients Needed:
Garam Masala Sticky Bun Monkey Bread:
Dough (MAKE TWO SEPARATE BATCHES!!!!!)-
- 1.5 cups (375g) whole milk
- 2.25 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1/4 cup (52g) granulated sugar
- 4.25 cups (640g) all-purpose flour
- 1.25 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 large eggs
- 6 tablespoons (82g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled

Glaze-
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar

Spiced Sugar-
- 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg

Rum Caramel-
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup cold butter, cubed
- 5.5 tablespoons dark rum
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 cinnamon stick charred

Sesame Parmigiano Garlic Monkey bread:
Same Dough as Above
Dip:
- 1/2 cup melted SALTED butter
- 1/2 cup sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup finely chopped garlic
- 2 cup parmigiano reggiano, finely grated
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, finely chopped
- butter for brushing
- flakey salt

[nimiew]

I love being stuffed in Josh's cabinet for him to occasionally open it to talk to me

[MadisonLiddell]

I just made this and my tips below:
1. Roll all the balls before dropping in butter. It’s faster and less messy.
2. Use forks for each coating - your hands will get sticky immediately and you can’t wash your hands constantly.
3. I was only left with a small amount of butter - just FYI. So the drizzle thing didn’t happen for me.

EDIT: if you run out of butter like I did, melt more. It helps with the browning process for the bread at the bottom. I didn’t melt more and I had a lot less browning at the bottom.

[anthonyretroroulette]

A fun story from when I was growing up, my grandmother called this "plucking bread." So my parents told me that when I was two years old, I walked into the kitchen, and asked my grandmother, "Mama Jean, can you please make me some fucking bread."

She had a stern talking with my parents about what they say around me. Took em a while to figure out what I wanted.

[james]

My dad makes something similar every Christmas. Each ball is stuffed with cream cheese, and the glaze has chopped pecans in it... Cannot wait for it again this year!

[ephraimrichardson]

This has been a feud within my family, that being if monkey bread is sweet or savory, thanks for them both, I eat both either way.

[chantelombard]

I absolutely love how everyone watching has commented about their own versions of this bread that their parents or grandparents made them. So cute.

[Golikol]

whatever you make from a brioche dough cannot go wrong.
ofc some exceptions may proof me wrong but brioche dough is just... LOVE

[orangutantapioca]

I’d love to see some recipes from you that are diabetic friendly.

My wife was diagnosed earlier this year and I’ve had to relearn how to make so much. Your fish recipe has gone over very well and I’m still practicing some of your egg variants, with early success in a lot of your other recipes

Love watching all your videos. You are always entertaining.

[jellymoondew]

Yesterday I was literally like: I really wanna try baking monkey bread once…. WHERE ARE THE CAMERAS JOSHUA???

[tomotto]

It makes me happy that you feed your crew with all the food you make because their lives are so much better because of it

[krishnammimani]

Garam masala for a dessert is quite an unusual ingredient. In India, from where garam masala originates, is made using whole chillies, cumin coriander seeds etc etc, which might just not taste very well in a dessert. So if someone wants to get garam masala, check for different brands and ingredients suited better for a dessert, or better yet go for "tea or chai masala" which typically has cinnamon, fennel, cardamom, ginger, cloves etc all of which would taste amazing in a dessert.

[jacobpatton]

Dough:
• 640 grams AP flour
• 52 grams granulated sugar
• 5 grams salt
• 82 grams unsalted butter gently melted
• 375 ml milk @ 95f
• 1 package/ 7 grams instant yeast

1. Mix milk with instant yeast and let sit.

2. While that’s sitting mix dry ingredients into mixing bowl.

3. With stand mixer steadily pour in melted butter to dry ingredients on medium speed.

4. Next pour in yeast milk mixture followed by 2 eggs

5. Mix for 3-4 minutes or until homogeneous. It will be sticky

6. Flop dough onto floured work surface, slap and fold a few times then gently shape into ball. Let sit for 10 minutes in well greased covered bowl.

7. Again flop dough onto floured work surface and slap and fold for 2 minutes. Again shape into ball. Let sit for 1-2 hours in well greased covered bowl or until double

Caramel sauce:
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup water
1 cinnamon stick
1/3 cup Cold butter
1/3 cup Whole milk

1. In medium saucepan stir sugar and water until thoroughly saturated, then heat on medium low until sugar dissolves.

2. Char cinnamon stick lightly with torch then add to saucepan. Simmer for 5-8 minutes or until light amber.

3. Whisk in 1/3 cup cold butter, once emulsified whisk in 1/3 cup whole milk. Pour into container and let cool.

Cinnamon sugar substitute for Garam masala:

1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon powder

Back to dough:

1. Punch dough to release air, then flop out and divide into 45 little pieces weighing around 28-30g each.

2. Roll all balls into T a u g h t and Supple Balls.

3. Lightly grease your bunt pan and roll balls into sugar and place in bunt pan
(1. Dough piece, 2. ball, 3. sugar, 4. bunt pan, repeat)

4. Let proof for 20 minutes room temp.

5. While that’s proofing make butter brown sugar sauce. Melt 1/2 cup butter with 1 cup brown sugar in medium saucepan and simmer until homogeneous.

6. Pour brown sugar glaze over proofed monkey bread.

7. Bake in oven @350f for 35-45 minutes or until golden brown.

[oswervy]

I'm actually so glad you made this because you unlocked this memory in the back of my head from someone making it for me as a kid and it becoming my favorite dessert.

[mtp]

“Make your own Thanks for being one of the few who actually do. It’s not that hard and I’m really looking forward to trying both recipes!

[ynot]

I used to love eating this. Having 3 boys, mom never got to call it monkey bread though. Was always and will always be "monkey butt"

[rameenmunawar]

The bread was very soft and fluffy. the caramel sauce is the best I've ever made. I made it without the rum and I also didn't put sugar in the dough. It was totally worth it and it's a great recipe to try. Thanks, Joshua.

[namrajafri]

"Masala spice" Ah yes, of course, the infamous *spice spice*

[icwtbwu]

I just made this today, and it was the softest fluffiest bread ever! Very easy to follow instructions and it rose heaps in the oven. I left out the graham masala and just substituted with cinnamon and it was amazing. The caramel spilled over in the oven so make sure you have something underneath to catch it. Also next time I'll cover it with foil during the last few minutes as it browned too much in some spots. Thanks Joshua for sharing!

[SpiteNL]

At 1:40: "One and a Quarter Cup or 5 grams of fine sea salt". Should be One and a Quarter Teaspoon, hopefully people read the recipe where it's correct or stick to grams, otherwise there's gonna be some SALTY dough out there

[Badbiddiee]

I just watched this with my grandmother and she loves the edits as much as I do! She’s 72 💕 and we love the recipes too lol ♥️thank you