Pull Apart or Monkey Coffee Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Dissolve yeast in water until foamy.
• Stir in salt, sugar, oil, milk and egg to blend.
• Stir in 3 1/4 cups flour until smooth.
• Knead dough smooth and elastic on floured surface, adding additional flour if needed to prevent stickiness.
• If using a dough hook in mixer, beat high speed about 5 minutes.
• Knead in raisins by hand.
• Divide dough into 3 portions.
• Cut each portion into 16 small pieces.
• Shape pieces into balls.
• Roll dough balls in 1/2 cup melted butter and then in
• the sugar/cinnamon mixture.
• Stagger balls barely touching in a greased and
• floured 9 inch bundt or tube pan.
• Sprinkle on any remaining sugar mixture and drizzle on any remaining melted butter.
• Cover lightly with plastic wrap and let rise puffy in a warm place about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Or you can chill the dough and let it rise puffy in the refrigerator about 16 to 18 hours.
• Bake in a preheated 350F oven about 30 minutes or golden and done.
• This particular recipe needs to cool in the pan about 10 minutes before removing so the warmed sugar and butter firms up .
• Carefully run a blade of knife around pan to loosen and
• carefully invert onto serving platter to serve.
• Serve warm.
• Advise guests to pull off pieces.
• Note : for the cake pictured above, I made slices of dough and
• not balls..
• Use portions of dough and roll out as you would for cinnamon rolls:
• roll up jelly roll style and slice off pieces and proceed with the remainder of the recipe.
• I also added a powder sugar icing over the warm cake with some nuts
• for decoration.
• TIP: Make cinnamon rolls/buns into a cake!
• Use your favorite cinnamon bun/roll recipe and when the pieces are cut into individual rolls ( slices ) pile them loosely in a tube pan after they have been dipped in the melted butter& sugar to make the bubble cake.
• Let them rise puffy and bake.