Pumpkin Monkey Bread
 
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Sweet and tender pull-apart bread coated with crunchy sugar and pumpkin spice. Drizzle with the cream cheese frosting if you're not dairy-free.
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients
  • FOR THE DOUGH:
  • ¾ cup sprouted spelt flour
  • 2 Tbls. sugar
  • 2 tsp. yeast
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice (link in blog post)
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  • ½ cup pumpkin puree
  • ½ cup milk or non-dairy alternative (I used hemp milk)
  • 2 Tbls. butter or coconut oil
  • 1 egg, medium-sized, lightly beaten
  • 1½ c. white spelt flour (if you’d like to use all sprouted spelt, reduce to 1¼ cup and knead until the dough is elastic and doesn’t stick to your hands. It might not take all of it.)
  • Extra spelt flour for kneading.
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  • BROWN SUGAR MIXTURE:
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
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  • ½ cup butter, melted
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  • FOR THE ICING:
  • 2 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 Tbls. butter, softened
  • 2 Tbls. milk or dairy alternative
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup 10x sugar (or more if you’d like it thicker)
Instructions
  1. TO MAKE DOUGH:
  2. Combine the first five ingredients if using sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer.
  3. Heat pumpkin, milk, butter in a medium saucepan just until butter is melted.
  4. With mixer running on low, slowly pour in the hot mixture. Allow to mix thoroughly.
  5. Add egg and mix well.
  6. Add remainder of spelt, ½ cup at a time, until thoroughly mixed in. Beat for another 2 minutes.
  7. Pour dough onto floured countertop and knead, adding flour as needed, until dough is elastic and no longer sticky.
  8. Let rise, covered with a damp cloth, until double in a draft free area (about 1 hour).
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  10. TO PREPARE BREAD TO BAKE:
  11. When dough has risen, punch down and prepare the sugar mixture and butter.
  12. Prepare a 9"x9" pan by spraying with non-stick spray.
  13. Pinch off bite-sized pieces of dough. Dip in butter and roll in sugar. Place in bread pan.
  14. Continue with the remaining dough.
  15. Allow to rise for about 30 minutes.
  16. Prehead oven to 350˚.
  17. Bake Monkey Bread for about 40 minutes, checking with a toothpick to make sure it’s done in the center. Bread will be crunchy golden brown on the top.
  18. Remove from oven and cool.
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  20. TO MAKE ICING:
  21. Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly.
  22. Use as a dipping sauce or drizzle over bread.
Recipe by Mr. Farmer's Daughter at http://www.mrfarmersdaughter.com/pumpkin-monkey-bread/