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Kylee’s Kitchen: Hop into Easter with carrot cake monkey bread

Izzy Karpinski

If you’re in charge of dessert this Easter, Kylee’s Kitchen is here to the rescue.

It’s carrot cake monkey bread, and you can even make it with store-bought dough (or homemade, of course).

Hop into Kylee’s Kitchen with Kylee Scales for the recipe!

Carrot cake monkey bread with homemade dough

Yield: 10 servings

Time: 3 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

For the dough

For the coating

For the filling

For the sauce

For the frosting

Directions

For the dough

  1. Combine milk and eggs in large mixing bowl. Add bread flour, sugar, yeast, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
  2. Knead everything together, using a mixer or by hand, to form a smooth ball of dough. Mix on first speed for 5 minutes to combine the ingredients, increase to second speed until dough develops and pulls away from sides of bowl. This may take up to 10 minutes. Dough will be sticky, but it should pull away from sides of bowl. If it doesn’t, add more flour 1 tablespoon at a time.
  3. Add half of butter on first speed and mix 2-3 minutes or until fully incorporated. Add remaining butter and mix on second speed 4-5 minutes until fully incorporated and dough “sheets” when window is pulled.
  4. Add carrots and mix until evenly distributed throughout dough.
  5. Place dough in oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let double in volume at room temperature, around 90 minutes to 2 hours. 
  6. De-gas dough and transfer onto pastry mat or lightly floured surface. 

For the coating and the filling

  1. Prepare bundt pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
  2. Mix sugar and orange zest.
  3. Create assembly line with melted butter, sugar mixture, and bundt pan.
  4. Divide dough in half. Starting with first half, cut off small sections about 25 grams in size and shape into balls.
  5. Dip 1 ball in butter, then sugar mixture, then place in bundt pan. Repeat with remaining pieces from first half of dough.
  6. Mix pineapple and pecans and spread evenly over dough in bundt pan.
  7. Repeat dough assembly line with second half of dough until there is no more dough.
  8. Cover top of bundt pan with plastic wrap and rest for 20 minutes.

For the sauce

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Heat butter, pineapple juice and brown sugar until mixture comes to boil.
  3. Remove plastic wrap from bundt pan and pour sauce over dough.
  4. Transfer bundt pan into oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes. Or until golden brown on top. If top browns too quickly, cover with aluminum foil. Double check to see if dough is cooked through by testing with thermometer. Inside should register between 190 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
  5. Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto serving platter.

For the frosting

  1. Beat together cream cheese with sugar, pineapple juice, and salt until smooth.
  2. Once monkey bread is cool, pipe frosting down sides of monkey bread.
  3. Serve monkey bread with any extra frosting for dipping.

Carrot cake monkey bread with store-bought dough

Yield: 10 servings

Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Ingredients

For the rolls

For the filling

For the sauce

For the frosting

Directions

For the rolls

  1. Prepare bundt pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
  2. Cut each roll or biscuit into 4 pieces and shape into ball.
  3. Mix sugar, orange zest, and spices.
  4. Create assembly line with melted butter, sugar mixture, and bundt pan.
  5. Dip 1 dough ball in butter, then sugar mixture, then place in bundt pan. Repeat with half of dough balls.

For the filling

  1. Mix carrots, pineapple and pecans and spread evenly over dough in bundt pan.
  2. Repeat dough assembly line with second half of dough balls. 

For the sauce

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Heat butter, pineapple juice and brown sugar until mixture comes to boil.
  3. Pour sauce over dough in bundt pan.
  4. Transfer bundt pan into oven and bake for 40 to 45 minutes. Or until golden brown on top. If top browns too quickly, cover with aluminum foil. Double check to see if dough is cooked through by testing with thermometer. Inside should register between 190 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
  5. Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto serving platter.

For the frosting

  1. Beat together cream cheese with sugar, pineapple juice, and salt until smooth.
  2. Once monkey bread is cool, pipe frosting down sides of monkey bread.
  3. Serve monkey bread with any extra frosting for dipping.