Monkey bread: Buterscotch pull apart, recipie improved.

GLUTEN free Butterscotch pull-apart. (AKA monkey bread)

Recipe:

Phase 1. The Dough.
1 Pkg (16 oz) Bob's red mill GF pizza crust mix
1 cup warm water
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter

1. In warm water, dissolve a table spoon of the sugar, and of the mix. Then sprinkle the packet of yeast that comes with the mix, on top.
2. In am heavy duty stand mixer, Cream together the butter and the sugar. Then add eggs.
3. Add the yeast water to the butter/eggs.
4. Set the mixer to medium, and slowly add the flour mix, scraping down the sides. Mix for a total of two minutes.

Phase two: the good stuff.
1 pkg butterscotch instant pudding.
1/2 cup packed brown sugar.
1/2 cup butter.
-Combine. using fork, to make a course meal.

Assembling:

1. Line a fluted bunt pan with parchment, or coat with shortening.
2. Sprinkle generous amount of the good stuff in the pan.
3. With very wet hands, grab a golf ball sized lump of dough. Roll it slightly to form ball. Drop it into pan. Repeat until you have covered the base of the pan with one layer of dough balls. Sprinkle generously with the good stuff, being sure to get it between and all over the dough balls. Keep going until you are out of dough.
4. Let rise, for about 30 min in a warm place.
5. Then bake at 375 for 20 to 30min.

re-purposing

They say when life hands you Lemons, make lemonade
When life hands me a bread that is not what I expected, I make french toast.

SO I turned the not sweet enough Pull apart/monkey bread into french toast. With butterscotch syrup.
Super yummy

Gluten free Butterscotch Pull apart

For Special occasions my mother makes "butterscotch pull apart"

I have also heard it called monkey bread.

I have not had it in over a decade. So I thought today was a day to give it a try.

Knowing that I could turn Pizza dough into cinnamon rolls and I thought I could use my french bread dough to make the pull apart.

I got my hands very wet, and them pinched off a golfball sized bit of dough. The rolled it into a ball, and then dropped it into the angel-food cake pan, which I lined with parchment paper.

I made a layer of the balls, them sprinkled with instand butterscotch pudding powder.

Repeat.

WHen all th dough was used up I let rise.

Then baked it.

 It was good. But as you can see, not butterscotch enough. It turned out more like a glaze over a nice loaf.
I WILL be doing this again, but with more pudding, butter, and pecans. That syrupy stickieness is what I'm going for.

Chebe Cinamon rolls.

These came from the Chebe Bread mix.

Not as lovely as advertized, but that is due to my skill.
They tasted good.
It was not really what I expected.
They were small, the bottom of a muffin cup.
And because it was not a yeast dough, they had a denser, more chewier texture.
I think If I try them again I would make them thinner, and conciser them swirl cookies, rather then rolls.

Blueberry lemon Rolls

I was inspired by The Chew, Blueberry sticky Buns presented by Daphne Oz (Who I thin is Dr Oz's daughter)
It's a cinnimon roll reecipie using Pizza dough, and blueberries (not rasins) and let's agree that a sad dried up grap has no place in a yummy gooie sticky treat.
SO I tried my own version, a lot less sticky.

I used Bob's red mill Pizza crust Mix.
Prepared as directed for cinnamon roll dough.
I rolled/ Patted it out to about 14 inches square, as that was as big as I could without it tearing.
I sprinkled it with cinnamon sugar, dolloped a little butter, and generously sprinkled frozen blueberries over it. And spritzed it with Lemmon juice.
I Rolled it up. Sliced it as best I could. Let It rasie for at least a hour. And baked it up.
Super yummy.
But it could hae used a little  more moisture. Next time more berries and more butter.
And you can BET there WILL BE a NEXT TIME!!

Cinnamon Rolls - Be still my heart

I found a recipe for Cinnamon rolls on the back of my Pizza dough Mix (Bob;s red mill) and I thought "Ill give this a try"
It was Remarkably easy

I did not put all the recommended filling in; just a little Cinnamon sugar and a few pecans.
Super yummy!
I could totally do that again!

Cinnimon rolls

I was able to pick up a pan of 'Take and Bake" Cinnamon roles from Fancy Free Bakery.
The instructions for baking were clear.
The baked up very nicely.
And they were scrumptious right out of the oven.
I like the idea of getting them as dough, and baking them at home. It makes fresh cinnimonrolls on a sunday morning, in your PJs a posability again.

"Cinnamon roll"

I have been gluten free for over 9 years now. And I will admit there are still a few things I have yet to find a reasonable GF facsimile of.
Well, Flying apron bakery http://www.flyingapron.com/ just took Cinnamon rolls off that list.
The sweet bread dough was soft, moist and tender, but held up well enough to un-roll the bun to eat it. (Which I might add it 60% of why I love them.) The frosting was a subtle glaze, that let the roll shine. Pecans and Cinnamon in a fine balance. They were individually crafted/baked kind of rolls. Like my grandmother
If you prefer the pan baked style with Cream-cheese frosting, and a more syrupy cinnamon to your roll (a la that famous cinnamon roll place in the mall) then I recommend http://haleyscorner.com/ as exactly what your looking for. But last time I was there they had all sold out, 'cause they only make them on Friday and they closed at 6 so I could not get there until Saturday. I just checked there web menu and I could not find "Cinnamon rolls" listed, so perhaps it's by request only?
I will say that is one flaw with most of the GF bakeries I know. The menu's are so large that you don't know what they won't have on a given day. In my case you can drive for hours and then find out they don't have what you want. That is my biggest problem with Davinci's too.
So I guess my request is if a GF bakery owner ever reads this: Make a few things, make them well and make then often.