Brown Butter Banana Monkey Bread w/ a Brown Sugar Glaze

2 Nov

Reading other blogs

A – makes me hungry

B- makes me wish I could wield any sort of decorating tool without it looking like a rabid squirrel took control

C- introduces me to things I would never have known about

I have been hearing one of my fav bloggers rave about brown butter. I’d never even hear of it before so I threw some butter in a frying pan and stirred and waited and stirred and waited and this magically smell filled the air and then I had a little taste. OH MY GOODNESS. It transforms butter to this caramelly buttery magic sauce. I knew I HAD to do something special with it and fast. I have been wanting to make monkey bread for a while so I made Brown Butter Banana Monkey Bread with a Brown Sugar sauce.

VERDICT

Oh the smell is Um-MAZING! Then you pull it out of the oven and pour this rich thick brown sugar glaze over it and dig in. The fluffy chunks of lightly flavored banana bread covered in a warm brown butter sugar coating and topped with a rich, brown sugar glaze. Like seriously what more can I say? You must try. Mmmm just thinking about it makes me want to go make it again so I can swipe the bread through the glaze and pop it in my mouth.

Recipe – 1 12 c bundt pan. adapted from Sugar Crafter

Monkey Bread

3 1/4 c all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbs melted brown butter
1/2 warm milk
1/4 c warm water
2/3 cup mashed banana (about 1 3/4 banana)
1/4 c granulated sugar
2 1/4 tsp dry active yeast (1 pack)
pinch of nutmeg

Coating

1 c granulated sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 c melted brown butter

Glaze – from Heather’s Dish

1/2 c packed brown sugar
1/4 c granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 c heavy cream (I didn’t have heavy cream and just used 1% and it was still goooodddd)

Brown Butter

For this recipe make all the brown butter and once and store the extra butter in a microwavable container so you can bring back up to melted for the coating

Cut butter into chunks and put a frying pan or medium sauce pan. Over medium heat stir the butter until melted. Keep stirring and the butter will begin to foam. It take a while so be patient. Keep stirring and smelling. The butter will stop smelling like melted will start to smell nutty and caramelly. (no it’s not a real word but this is my world and in my world caramelly is real). Once the foam subsides the butter will be lightly brown and have some sediment at the bottom. Take off the heat.

Monkey Bread

In a medium bowl pour melted brown butter, warm water and warm milk, whisk together. You want it about 110 F. Sprinkle yeast over top.

In a large bowl whisk together flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Make a well in the middle.

The yeast should have started to bloom. Add in the banana and add wet to dry. Use a wooden spoon or heavy duty spatula to fold ingredient until they just come together.

On a lightly floured surface turn out dough and knead until smooth and elastic. My dough was very sticky so I threw it in the standing mixer with the dough hook for 3 minutes then took it out and kneaded it for another 2.

Spray a large bowl with non-stick spray and put in dough. Cover with a towel and let sit about an hour or until it doubles in size.

Take the dough out and form into a rectangle. Cut into even size pieces, I ended up with 42.

Make the coating by taking your leftover brown butter and added the sugar and cinnamon.

Take out your bundt pan.

Take a piece of dough, roll into a ball, roll it around in that brown butter sugar nectar of the gods mixture and place in bundt pan. Repeat until all your dough is in the bundt pan. Cover bundt pan and set aside for an hour or until dough doubles in size.

Preheat oven to 350 F and put your oven rack in the centre position.

Bake for 30-35 minutes until top is lightly golden.

Let cool for 5 minutes before you flip it out onto a plate.

Glaze

In a small saucepan mix cream, sugars and vanilla. Stir until it begins to simmer. Remove from heat and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Pour over your monkey bread.

Dig in. Seriously with your face. It is so damn good!

Enjoy!

PS all the B’s were unintentional lol