27 Absurdly Easy Monkey Bread Recipes For All Occasions! - The Gold Lining Girl (2024)

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What can I use instead of a bundt pan for monkey bread? ›

I bake mine in one of the best Bundt pans, but a tube pan works, too. You could even bake it in a muffin tin for individual monkey bread "muffins." Wouldn't that be cute?! Just be sure to adjust the baking time.

During the 1980s, Nancy Reagan popularized serving monkey bread during Christmas by making it a staple of the Reagan White House Christmas.

Monkey bread gets its name by the method in which it is eaten: picking off chunks of buttery, gooey dough with your fingers not unlike a monkey grooming his buddy (which is actually a weird thing to name a food after, if you really think about it.)

Pour the warm caramel over the dough immediately before baking. The monkey bread needs 40 to 45 minutes in the oven, or until the top of the bread looks crispy with caramelized sugar and is golden brown.

Can you bake a Bundt cake in a 13×9 pan? Yes—but don't overfill the pan. Be sure to leave about 1/2″ to 1/4″ of space at the top to give the cake room to grow. You'll also need to adjust your baking time.

Also known as Hungarian Coffee Cake, Bubble Loaf, and, my favorite, Pinch Me Cake, the term Monkey Bread didn't start popping up until the 1950's in various women's magazines.

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She heard the name monkey bread only after moving to Arkansas as a college student. Fazekas traced the dessert back to the 1880s, claiming that it was Hungarian immigrants who introduced it to the United States. Fazekas named Hungarian Jewish bakers as the heroes of the story.

Recipes for the bread first appeared in American women's magazines and community cookbooks in the 1950s. During the 1980s, Nancy Reagan popularized serving monkey bread during Christmas by making it a staple of the Reagan White House Christmas.

The Baobab is one of the most majestic trees of Africa, very present in Senegal. Its fruit, which is called “monkey bread”, has multiple virtues. It is 2.5 times richer in vitamin C than an orange, contains 2.5 times more calcium than milk and six times more potassium than a banana.

Who eats monkey bread? ›

Eating Jewish: Aranygaluska, or "Hungarian monkey bread"

Baobab is a fruit grown in Africa. Pronounced as “bau-bab,” this fruit grows on trees that can be over 1,000 years old. A baobab tree may also be called a monkey bread tree, Ethiopian sour gourd, cream of tartar tree and even upside-down tree.

If you somehow end up with leftovers, save them for later! This Grands!™ Monkey Bread can be stored, tightly covered, on the counter for 1–2 days. To keep it fresh for 3–4 days, pop it into the fridge. And if you want to put a treat aside for future you, you can freeze monkey bread for up to two months.

REHEATING: The best way to reheat the monkey bread is by placing it into an oven on a baking sheet. Heat oven to 350 degrees. When it has reached that temperature add the bread, covered with foil.

Storage Tips. Monkey bread is definitely best served on the same day that it is baked, preferably fresh out of the oven! Any leftover monkey bread should be stored, covered tightly with plastic wrap or in an airtight container, at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

However, you can use a tube pan for recipes that call for a Bundt pan in many cases. Keep in mind that tube pans typically hold more batter than a bundt pan of the same size.

9-inch round: A single standard eight- or nine-inch round cake pan only holds six cups by volume, meaning that a 12-cup Bundt recipe will require two cake pans. 13×9: A 13×9-inch baking pan holds 14 cups and can easily accommodate a 12-cup Bundt cake recipe.

Really, you can bake a bundt cake recipe in any pan you have on hand! Muffin tins, bread loaf pans (two would be approximately equivalent to one bundt cake recipe), a 9x13 pan, etc. With all of these, you'll need to adjust the baking time quite a bit.

The bottom line is, if the recipe is not for an angel food cake, chiffon cake or any filled cake, you should be safe converting a regular cake recipe into a Bundt cake recipe. And yes, you can make Bundt cake recipes in regular cake pans, too!