Mini Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What can I use instead of a bundt pan for monkey bread? ›

I bake mine in one of the best Bundt pans, but a tube pan works, too. You could even bake it in a muffin tin for individual monkey bread "muffins." Wouldn't that be cute?! Just be sure to adjust the baking time.

Muffins rise due to the expansion of gases, such as carbon dioxide, created by the interaction of baking powder, baking soda, or yeast (depending on the recipe you are using) with moisture and heat. Baking tall and fluffy muffins requires a combination of precision and intuition.

Scones are often sweetened slightly, and glazed with an egg wash or frosting, and biscuits are traditionally not sweet (although they can be). A biscuit is also not the same as a muffin. Muffins are more similar to cake than scones or biscuits. Each of the three should be considered their own unique category of treat.

Place all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Combine all liquids in a separate bowl. Mix the liquids into the dry ingredients. Add the blueberries.

Monkey bread (also known by other names including plucking cake, pull-apart bread, and bubble bread) is a soft, sweet, sticky pastry served in the United States for breakfast or as a treat. It consists of pieces of soft baked dough sprinkled with cinnamon.

If the bottom of the pieces that haven't been exposed is still doughy, the bread needs to bake longer. If it's fully baked and no stretchy dough appears, it's ready.

™ Monkey Bread can be stored, tightly covered, on the counter for 1–2 days. To keep it fresh for 3–4 days, pop it into the fridge. And if you want to put a treat aside for future you, you can freeze monkey bread for up to two months.

The idea here is to start the muffins in a very hot oven for just a short amount of time. This activates the baking powder and allows the muffins to shoot up in height quickly. We then turn the heat down and continue to cook for longer. This is done to avoid over-browning and overbaking.

Muffin was underbaked and cell structure wasn't set. When the cell structure doesn't set, the air spaces created by the leavening in the recipe collapses, causing the muffin to sink. Oven temperatures vary over time. To insure the correct temperature each time you bake, always use an oven thermometer.

What happens if you over mix muffin batter? ›

Realize that overmixing can cause muffins to be tough, bake unevenly, create elongated holes (or tunnels) and/or form peaked tops.

Cupcake recipes generally contain much higher levels of sugar and fat. This makes cupcakes sweeter, and juicier with finer crumbs. Muffins usually have fruit, nuts, and other ingredients mixed into the batter to compensate. Because of this, muffins are usually considered healthier than cupcakes.

It's a mistake to think that muffins are always healthier than cake. Recipes vary, but store-bought fruit muffins typically have around 5-10 per cent more calories than carrot cake, even when it's iced. Carrot cake tends to have less sugar and salt, as well as seven times the beta-carotene.

The muffin method is useful shorthand for a way of combining ingredients. Put all the dry ingredients in one bowl and whisk them together. Then put all the wet ingredients In a second bowl and whisk them together. In this case, sugar counts as a wet ingredient.

The muffin method also requires that the wet ingredients be added to the dry ingredients, never the other way around, and mixed gingerly. Once the wet mixture meets the dry mixture, work to quickly but efficiently combine the two, as not to develop too much gluten in the batter (too much gluten equals tough muffins).

The main challenge of the muffin method is mixing the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients without activating too much gluten. This is especially challenging with traditional muffins which contain relatively little sugar and fat that would help tenderize gluten.