Easy Monkey Bread In Loaf Pan ; How to make Monkey Bread from scratch!

This Monkey Bread in loaf pan is a super delicious dessert for any occasion especially for the holidays! You will love this Monkey Bread with sticky, gooey, caramel and cinnamon flavored sauce covering each of those soft and fluffy bread rolls.

You can have them as its own or can elevate these monkey bread to a decedent dessert by pairing it with some vanilla ice cream!

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Why You will Love This Homemade Monkey Bread Made in Loaf Pan

• You will need only a few basic ingredients to make this Monkey Bread
• You can make this Delicious Dessert in less than 2 hours!
• The method that we use in this monkey bread recipe is super simple and mess free.
• We don’t use any pre- made dough to make this monkey bread and so you can enjoy fresh and real flavorful dessert.
• You will love the texture of this monkey bread : gooey cinnamon infused sticky, pull apart soft and fluffy rolls.

If you are looking for simple and easy recipes, then you might also will love this 30 minute Flaky Biscuits Recipe and Quick and Easy Dinner Rolls Recipe.

If you enjoy making recipes from scratch, I would like you to make this Easy Apple Turnovers from scratch, that is made with only a few ingredients (without using any commercial puff pastry sheet) but tastes better than store-bought ones!

Ingredients for making Pull-apart Monkey Bread

For Bread Dough

1. Flour :325 g or 2 1/2 cups
2. Slightly warm milk (not hot) :190 ml or 3/4 cup +2 tsp
3. Butter :50g or 3 1/2 tbsp
4. Yeast (instant/active dried yeast):3 g or 1 tsp
5. Sugar :30 g or 2 1/2 tbsp
6. Salt:6g or 1 tsp

For Filling

1. Granulated Sugar :67 g or 1/3 cup
2. Brown Sugar :56 g or 1/3 cup
3. Cinnamon Powder :1 tsp or 3 g
4. Melted Butter :57 g or 1/2 stick butter or 1/4 cup

For Vanilla Icing (optional)

• Heavy Cream or Thick Cream :3 tbsp
• Icing Sugar :2 tbsp
• Vanilla Extract :1/2 tsp

HOW TO MAKE MONKEY BREAD IN LOAF PAN

We can make this Easy Monkey Bread in 5 simple steps.

1.Prepare the dough

2.Prepare the Monkey bread filling

3.Divide the dough

4.Proof the shaped Monkey Bread

5.Bake the Homemade Monkey Bread in Loaf Pan

1.PREPARE THE MONKEY BREAD DOUGH

Into a bowl,lets add all our ingredients together and mix them to form a shaggy mass of dough.

Add the milk, sugar, salt, yeast, butter and flour and mix them together.

Make sure the milk is lukewarm.

If you don’t want to use milk, you can use equal volume of lukewarm water instead of milk.

The temperature should not be cold nor hot.Just slightly warm, just as warm as that of a baby food.Ideally around 95 F.

Yeast will bloom in a warm and sweet environment and the yeast cells will die in a hot environment.

Also take care the butter we use should be at room temperature.We can also use equal volume of melted butter or oil.

Transfer the dough onto a clean work surface .Knead the dough until the dough become soft and elastic.

Only a well kneaded dough can produce soft and fluffy Monkey Bread.

2.PREPARE THE CINNAMON SUGAR MIX FOR THE MONKEY BREAD

Into a bowl, add in the brown sugar , white granulated sugar and cinnamon powder.

Mix and combine to form a homogenous mixture.

Also don’t forget to prepare the loaf pan for making the monkey bread.Smear the inside of the pan with some butter.This will prevent the monkey bread from sticking to the pan after baking.

3.DIVIDE THE DOUGH AND COAT WITH CINNAMON SUGAR

Place the dough on to a lightly dusted work surface.

Roll the dough to form a rectangle or square of around 2 cm thick.

Divide the dough into small pieces.

You can use a bench scraper, pizza cutter or a sharp knife.

Divide the dough in half and then each half into two and continue until you get 64 approximate equal pieces.

We don’t need to divide them exactly of same size.There is no issue if a few of them are slightly large or small in size.

I separated them immediately as they will stick to each other.

Now take each of them and put it in the sugar mix.

I prefer to do this in batches to prevent them from clumping.

Now stir or shake the bowl and toss the rolls in sugar mix so that each of them will get coated evenly with cinnamon sugar.

Add the rest of the rolls until we are done with all of them.

4.PROOF THE SHAPED MONKEY BREAD IN LOAF PAN

Arrange half of the rolls in the prepared loaf pan.

Now pour in some melted butter on top of the rolls.We can use 1-2 tablespoons of melted butter.

Then arrange the rest of rolls into the loaf pan.

If you have left over cinnamon sugar, just sprinkle it on top the rolls.

Drizzle the top with some more melted butter(1-2 tablespoons).

I kept the rest of melted butter aside, to use later.

Now they are ready for proofing.

So cover the loaf pan with a cling film and let the bread rolls rise in a warm environment for 1 hour.

After one hour of proofing, they have risen well and are ready to go into the oven.

4.BAKE THE LOAF PAN MONKEY BREAD

Before taking them into the oven for baking, pour in the rest of melted butter on top of the rolls.

Melted butter will help the rolls to pull apart easily after baking.It will also help you create that gooey and sticky caramel sauce that coat and cover each of those rolls.

Now it is ready to go into the oven.

Bake the Monkey Bread in Loaf pan at a 350 F or 180 C preheated oven for 36-40 minutes.

If the Monkey Bread is under-baked, the inside will be doughy and they smell yeasty.So bake sufficiently for 36-40 minutes.

Wait for 5-6 minutes for the monkey bread to cool slightly.

Flip it upside down and release the pan slowly.

Enjoy the super delicious sticky ,gooey, cinnamon flavored, soft and fluffy rolls.

We can use Caramel sauce or Butterscotch sauce as glaze.

I like to have it with a dollop of “vanilla ice cream” or simple “vanilla icing” which pair this loaf pan monkey bread so well.

This Monkey bread is best to have while they are fresh and warm.

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HOW TO STORE THIS HOMEMADE MONKEY BREAD

You can store any leftover bread by covering it in an airtight container at room temperature for day or two.

You can store it covered tightly with plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

For Freezing the Monkey Bread : Wrap the monkey bread either the whole or part of it in plastic wrap and then in foil, place in a freezer bag, and freeze for up to 3 months.Make sure the bread has cooled down completely before storing.

CAN I ADD EGG TO THIS MONKEY BREAD LOAF RECIPE

Yes you can add egg to this Monkey Bread Recipe.You can remove 45-50 ml of milk(equal volume as that of one egg) from this recipe and add 1 egg instead.

CAN I USE WATER INSTEAD OF MILK FOR MAKING LOAF PAN MONKEY BREAD DOUGH

Yes you can use equal volume of water instead of milk in this Homemade Monkey Bread Recipe.