Apple Pie Monkey Bread Recipe - Yes it is as GOOD as it sounds! (2024)

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What's another name for monkey bread? ›

Monkey bread (also known by other names including plucking cake, pull-apart bread, and bubble bread) is a soft, sweet, sticky pastry served in the United States for breakfast or as a treat. It consists of pieces of soft baked dough sprinkled with cinnamon.

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.)

When the Reagans were in the White House, The New York Times ran a small story with the family's Christmas menu. One of the dishes served was Monkey Bread. Also called Bubble Bread, Monkey Bread is a lightly sweetened yeast dough, but instead of shaping the dough into a loaf, it's formed into balls.

Meaning of monkey bread in English

a sweet food made from small balls of bread dough (= a mixture made of flour and water) that have been covered in butter and baked together: Monkey bread is easy to separate once it is cooked. lenazap/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages. Fewer examples.

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.

Each bite tastes like the sticky delicious center of cinnamon rolls. Monkey bread is served pull apart style, similar to my cinnamon roll wreath, where everyone tears off a piece—just like how monkeys pick at their food. You can have monkey bread for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.

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.

Frybread (also spelled fry bread) is a dish of the indigenous people of North America that is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.

Bread Ingredients

Bananas: You will need 3 ripe bananas for the bread dough and 3 more bananas that will be diced and layered in between the balls of bread dough. Yeast: I used instant yeast in this recipe. It is also called quick rise or fast-rising yeast. Milk: I prefer whole milk in this recipe.

The President's Dining Room is a dining room located in the northwest corner of the second floor of the White House. It is located directly above the Family Dining Room on the State Floor and looks out upon the North Lawn.

Who was the first state dinner at the White House? ›

The first state dinner was served in 1874, when President Ulysses S. Grant hosted the last king of Hawaii, David Kalākaua. There have been more than 300 since. Ronald Reagan takes the prize for hosting the most — 59 during his presidency.

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.

Monkey meat and Zepps in a cloud: words for food

Soldiers came up with a variety of other colloquial names for their unappetizing meals of stewed meat or hash, including gippo, hashmagandy (used by Australians and New Zealanders), and monkey meat (used by U.S. troops).

"Cheese-eating surrender monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for French people. The term is based on the stereotype of the French that they surrender quickly.

Paradoxically, banana is what monkey likes the most. This implies that anytime a banana is found in the hand of a monkey, it is most likely a gift from someone. The question is, why then can't Monkey climb the banana tree, but can climb the tallest trees in the forest?

Arachis hypogaea L., commonly known as peanut, groundnut, monkey nut, goober, or earth nut because the seed develop underground, is in the division Papiolionaceae of the family Leguminosae. The peanut is only one of a few hundred species of legumes that produces flowers above ground but develops the fruit below ground.

Sweet bread, also referred to as pan dulce, buns, or coffee bread, is a bread or cake that is typically sweet in flavor.

Monkey brains is a supposed dish consisting of, at least partially, the brain of some species of monkey or ape. While animal brains have been consumed in various cuisines (e.g. eggs and brains or fried brain sandwiches), there is debate about whether monkey brains have actually been consumed.

Fried dough is also known as fry dough, fry bread (bannock), fried bread, doughboys, elephant ears, beaver tails, scones, pizza fritte, frying saucers, and buñuelos (in the case of smaller pieces).