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Step by step video showing you how to make homemade monkey bread, otherwise known as cinnamon pull-apart bread. Recipe and photographs included.

I teamed up with GoodBite to help celebrate the launch of their online store! Monkey Bread is what I chose to make with the Kitchen Aid Mixer that I received from the GoodBite store, and I?ve put together a how-to video for you. Here?s my How to Make Monkey Bread video- click the box to view the video (recipe below?) (the giveaway has ended)

1. Place rack in middle-low position of your oven, making sure that there are no racks placed above it. Spray bundt pan generously with nonstick spray.

2. Prepare dough: In a microwave-safe bowl, mix milk, water, melted butter, sugar and yeast. Place flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Use the dough hook attachment to mix them together. With machine on low, slowly add the milk mixture. When the dough begins to come together, increase speed to medium and continue to mix until the dough is shiny and smooth. If the dough is too wet and isn?t coming together, add 2 to 4 additional Tablespoons of flour (stop the machine once to scrape sides if you need to); this should take 6 to 7 minutes. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and work with your hands a little bit to form a smooth, round ball. Coat a large bowl with nonstick spray. Place dough in the bowl and spray the top lightly with nonstick spray as well. Cover the bowl with a clean dish towel. Turn your oven on 400 degrees and let it warm up for 1 minute. Turn it OFF. Turn ON the oven light. Place your covered bowl of dough into the warmed oven until the dough doubles in size- 50 to 60 minutes.

3. When dough is almost done rising, prepare the ooey gooey coating. In a medium bowl, whisk together brown sugar and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, melt the butter. Set aside.

4. Form the bread balls: Remove dough from the bowl onto a lightly floured surface and gently pat into an 8-inch square. Using a sharp knife or bench scraper, cut the dough into 64 pieces (cut the square into 4 pieces and then cut each piece into 16 pieces). Roll each piece into a ball. Dip a ball in the melted butter, then roll in brown sugar mixture; place into the bundt pan. Continue with remaining 63 balls of dough, layering the balls as they accumulate in the bundt pan. If you have any melted butter left over, drizzle a couple of Tablespoons over the layered dough balls. Cover the bundt pan with a clean dish towel, and place back into the warmed oven to let the dough balls rise for another 50 to 60 minutes (they should get puffy and rise almost to the top of the pan.)

5. Ready to bake: Remove the pan from the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove the dishtowel. Bake about 30 minutes, until the top has browned and ooey gooey caramel is bubbling around the edges. Cool in the pan for 2 to 3 minutes, then flip the bundt pan upside down onto a platter to remove the contents of the pan. Let sit on the platter for a few minutes to cool slightly before glazing.

6. Prepare glaze: In the bowl of your stand mixer, use the whisk attachment to mix powdered sugar and milk. Continue to mix until lumps are gone (scrape sides of the mixing bowl, if needed). Spoon glaze over the top and sides of the monkey bread.

One of my family favorites, a must for Christmas breakfast. I love a thin flat spatula. Each year it seems that they make them thicker and to me, it is harder to flip pancakes and burgers.

One thing I can?t live without in a kitchen is a wooden spoon! I probably have at least five and use them for everything. Also, I love my mini Cuisinart food processor.

I find it nearly impossible to believe, but I?ve never made Monkey Bread!! I am ashamed of myself. When the next group comes to visit, I?m pulling out your recipe!

If you love Monkey Bread you need to try Gorilla Bread! Here is the recipe! I hope you love it as much as my family does! God Bless!

Great video, Lori! You actually make that look pretty easy. I?m always a little intimidated when making dough, but my family loves monkey bread, so I?m going to have to try this one day. I sure need a Stand Mixer! I?m going to the site to enter now!

My favorite kitchen tool would have to be the blender?nothing like a yummy Saturday morning smoothie to start the weekend off right! Can?

My fave kitchen tool is definitely chopsticks. I?m an Asian American and these things somehow always work their way into my cooking. It makes picking up food and scrambling easier!

I have made this successfully a handful of times but recently I simmered 2 peeled and chopped granny smith apples in 2 table spoons of butter with 2 table spoons of brown sugar and a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon and layered that in with the dough and people have been talking about it for a while now.

Hmmm, not sure. My video on this recipe was shot long before she posted her recipe. Perhaps we used similar sources for inspiration?

This looks fabulous. I was wondering if I could prep this the night before and allow the dough to proof overnight so I can bake it fresh first thing in the morning? Or does it all need to be done at once? Thanks so much?cannot WAIT to try this!

Hi Virginia, I think it?s totally fine to cover it and let it sit in the fridge overnight and then take it out to do the second rise in the AM, then bake. I do that w/ cinnamon rolls all the time!

I make this every year for christmas morning, but I have no idea how you made it look SO perfect! I linked this recipe in a christmas food round up on my blog.