Looks fab - just wondering what the UK equivalent of buttermilk biscuits would be. Something sweet like brioche maybe? Are they soft or hard? oh just read @dh 's suggestion too....
Oh great... I don't normally like pictures of food, but those look absolutely scrumptious... And now I'm hungry... And I'm sitting at a community centre hockey arena that serves boiled hotdogs, greasy popcorn and pop... I'm going to buy a pack of chips and its all your fault ;)
For those "across the pond" it seems there might be an equivalent at Asda; any "biscuit in a can" would do I suspect; and the "canned crescents" seem to be easiest to get. http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=64569.0
Might be similar to what we call bread and butter pudding. What You call biscuits in States we call scones. Was very surprised last time we were in USA that people would have biscuits with chipped beef for breakfast, ie, scones with shredded corn beef in a white sauce. Guaranteed one way trip to obesity and a heart attack in my view, but the winters are cold, summers are short and guess you need the carbohydrate. In Texas for breakfast were presented with bananas foster followed by eggs poached in pure cream with bacon. BTW love bread and butter pudding. @judithg
a different kind of Monkey Bread but my family's and friend's most requested thing for ME to serve (I think they think it's too much trouble!) - the recipe is posted with the photo:
@dh@judithg Buttermilk biscuits are not sweet like scones (I bake a variety of types of scones, too). The ones used for this recipe come in a can -- or more correctly, the dough comes in a can. If you Google "biscuit dough in a can" you'll see examples (Pillsbury is the best-known brand.). Since I make scones and people ask me what they are, my usual response is "they're sweeter than a biscuit but not a sweet as a muffin." That probably doesn't help. I will hasten to add that in the U.S., biscuits are NOT what they are in Britain. What the British call biscuits, we call "cookies." Biscuits are form of bread, but are usually either rolled out from a dough and cut (in a round shape) and baked, or the dough is mixed and dropped by the spoonful onto a baking sheet (therefore, called "drop biscuits"). So...for this monkey bread recipe, the biscuit dough is NOT a sweet dough, but the overall product becomes a sweet bread because of the sugar in the toppings. :)
@nicolecampbell Its not like bread and butter pudding at all. It is just like bread but it has sticky caramel and pecans over it. Its yummy and has about 20,000calories per piece and enough butter to cause a heart attack. Its not unlike sticky buns but it is all cooked in one dish or bundt pan.
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The problem is stopping at one piece. Mine is made with a sweet bread dough rather than a dough from a can so I'm sure that adds to the calorie count too. Maybe a 2hour walk then I'll get to the kitchen and bake some. My mouth is watering :)
@k1w1 My best friend's mother has a similar recipe, hers is called "bubble loaf." She makes the base dough from scratch, too. I could do that, but at the time I made the batch I photographed that Aaron has referenced I was more interested in having the final product to photograph than baking from scratch. My friend's mother's bubble loaf recipe is to-die-for, and I need to ask her to acquire it for me.
@sjoblues
Your batch looks amazing. If you Google search monkey bread or bubble bread you will probably find it. If not feel free to email me and I can send it to you :)
@nicolecampbell - that is what I am assuming. I looked up buttermilk biscuits (which is used) and they look like scones, so using bread would have the same effect!
I wish I had read this thread before I drove out of town in the ice storm. Now I am so craving this!!!!!! Bribery for a follow? LOL AND GREAT STOVE! @grizzlysghost
For our friends who can't purchase biscuit-dough-in-can, you can make your own buttermilk biscuit dough, then use that dough in the monkey bread recipe. This recipe would work. When you have mixed the dough, rather than rolling it out and cutting it into rounds, just make balls of it a bit smaller than a golf ball...they would be the right size to put into the sugar & cinnamon mixture in the monkey bread recipe, and go from there: http://southern.food.com/recipe/southern-buttermilk-biscuits-26110
Monkey bread is fun to make in the coals of the campfire with the dutch oven.
@peterdegraaff The corned beef one not so common here, but something people DO eat quite a bit of (and I find disgusting) is biscuits with gravy. That is almost always made with a sausage gravy.
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Tastes just like sweet cinnamon rolls :)
Way too great a temptation unless you have people around to help eat it.
http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=64569.0
Same questions as Judith. I am assuming their outside is rather soft?
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Wierd how that happened... I made some this morning even before I came on here! Wish I took a picture so you all could believe me! But it was good! ;D
The problem is stopping at one piece. Mine is made with a sweet bread dough rather than a dough from a can so I'm sure that adds to the calorie count too. Maybe a 2hour walk then I'll get to the kitchen and bake some. My mouth is watering :)
Your batch looks amazing. If you Google search monkey bread or bubble bread you will probably find it. If not feel free to email me and I can send it to you :)
http://southern.food.com/recipe/southern-buttermilk-biscuits-26110
Oh well, if I must make monkey bread in the name of the project, so be it. ;)
Got a total craving now!
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@peterdegraaff The corned beef one not so common here, but something people DO eat quite a bit of (and I find disgusting) is biscuits with gravy. That is almost always made with a sausage gravy.