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🍰 Fluffy Monkey Bread with Brazil Nuts

464 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Gently warm the milk in a pot.
  2. 2. Crumble the yeast into the warm milk.
  3. 3. Mix the yeast with 10 grams of sugar.
  4. 4. Let the mixture rest covered for about 15 minutes.
  5. 5. Set aside 40 grams of the whole Brazil nuts for decoration.
  6. 6. Roughly chop the rest of the Brazil nuts.
  7. 7. Wash the orange thoroughly.
  8. 8. Grate about 1 teaspoon of orange zest.
  9. 9. Halve the orange and squeeze out the juice.
  10. 10. Place the chopped Brazil nuts, flour, 30 grams of sugar, 75 grams of butter, the egg, and the yeast milk into a bowl.
  11. 11. Knead everything into a smooth dough.
  12. 12. Let the dough rise in a warm place covered for about 1 hour.
  13. 13. Melt the remaining butter.
  14. 14. Pour the melted butter into a small bowl.
  15. 15. Mix sugar with cinnamon in another bowl.
  16. 16. Work some flour onto your work surface.
  17. 17. Roll the dough out into a rectangle measuring 30 by 60 centimeters.
  18. 18. Cut the rectangle into 5 strips, each 6 centimeters wide.
  19. 19. Divide each strip into about 10 small pieces.
  20. 20. Shape the pieces into small balls.
  21. 21. Roll each ball first in the melted butter.
  22. 22. Then roll the ball in the cinnamon sugar.
  23. 23. Grease a Bundt pan with about 1 tablespoon of oil.
  24. 24. Stack the butter-cinnamon balls into the pan.
  25. 25. Press the balls down slightly.
  26. 26. Let the pan rise covered again for about 20 minutes.
  27. 27. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  28. 28. Bake the cake in the oven for about 30 to 35 minutes.
  29. 29. Let the cake cool on a wire rack.
  30. 30. Carefully release the cake from the pan.
  31. 31. Sift powdered sugar into a bowl.
  32. 32. Mix the powdered sugar with a little orange juice.
  33. 33. Stir until a thick glaze forms.
  34. 34. Pour the glaze over the cake.
  35. 35. Decorate the cake with the reserved Brazil nuts.
  36. 36. Let the glaze dry.

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