Butterscotch monkey bread is a sweet breakfast dish made from frozen sandwiches, pudding mix, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon. The mixture is baked in a tall skillet and served in separate buns with a syrupy coating. Optional additions include chopped nuts and butterscotch-flavored potato chips.
Butterscotch monkey bread is a popular brunch food usually made from packaged items such as frozen foods, unbaked sandwiches, and pudding mixes. These items, along with a mixture of brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and sometimes chopped nuts, are placed in a tube or cake pan and left to sit on a table or countertop overnight. The defrosted, risen sandwiches with the sauce ingredients are then baked before being inverted onto a plate and served hot.
Since the mixture is cooked in a tall skillet, the end result is a high-sided mound shape. Unlike most coffee cakes or sweet breads that are cut with a knife to serve sized slices, butterscotch monkey bread comes apart. The separate buns used in the recipe allow them to separate easily. The butterscotch-flavored syrupy coating, warm and gooey, makes the soft, freshly baked buns taste more like cake than bread. Children and adults generally enjoy this bread for breakfast.
While some monkey bread recipes call for brown sugar and cinnamon to be sprinkled on the frozen buns at the same time as the butter pudding mix, others call for a sauce to be made. The brown sugar, cinnamon and butter are heated together in a pan until the mixture is bubbly. It is then poured over butterscotch monkey bread before baking. In the other method, the butter is melted separately and poured over the buns, cinnamon and brown sugar in the tall cake pan.
Before adding frozen sandwiches, always grease the tube or pan. This is necessary so that the yeast buns do not stick to the pan during defrosting and rising. Typically, butterscotch monkey bread takes about 30 minutes to cook on the middle rack of an oven over moderate heat. It is important to place the pan containing the ingredients on a baking sheet before placing it in the oven in case the sugar-butter mixture runs on top of the pan.
Chopped walnuts are a popular but optional addition to butterscotch monkey bread. Almonds, walnuts or cashews are common choices. Some bakers also like to add butterscotch-flavored potato chips to the recipe to boost the flavor of the monkey bread. Another possible addition is some orange juice and/or grated orange zest. Breakfast bread tends to go well with coffee, milk, or juice.
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