Hive Top Chef! | Dough - Pull-Apart Spicy Raisin Monkey Bread

Seeing the theme Dough for this week's challenge, brought many images to mind, like...

• Colourful Play Dough that we used to play with as kids.
• Dough as what the finance gurus play with, as I do as well when I have a little extra Dough.
• Doughnuts as we spell it or Donuts as spelt, (our spelling again and I'm not talking spelt flour here)...or spelled by my American friends.
  I've been craving these for quite a while now, and nearly ended up making it for this challenge, but I resisted and made...

Pull-Apart Spicy Raisin Monkey Bread

What kind of Dough is this?

Cinnamon Sugar coated little triangles of a spicy brown yeast dough filled with Raisins roughly placed in a ring pan, or a Bundt pan as called by my German and Austrian friends.
Interesting to learn that the term Bundt is derived from the German word Bundkuchen which means Gathering Cake.
Monkey bread certainly does this, as one would sit around for morning coffee and tear off crispy cinnamon-sugar coated pieces of soft bread, quite a social affair!

The Recipe

• 4 cups Cake Flour
• 1 cup Wholemeal Flour
• 1/4 cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1/2 - 1 tsp Mixed Spice
• 3/4 cup Raisins & Sultanas
• 1 sachet Instant yeast
• 500 ml Lukewarm Milk
• 50 gram melted Butter
• Approx 3/4 cup Sugar Cinnamon mix for coating dough triangles

Mix dry ingredients except yeast which is placed in a hollow in centre of dry ingredients.
Pour milk & butter onto yeast and knead till smooth and elastic.
Cover and leave to proof in a warm place.

Knock down dough once it's doubled in size, flatten into a rectangle and cut into squares, then cut each square in half to form triangles.

Roll each piece of raw dough in Sugar Cinnamon mixture

Loosely place pieces of dough into well-sprayed Bundt pan & bake approx 40 min at 180°C or till dough is golden brown and cooked through.

Note: I had enough dough leftover to make a small loaf of plain Raisin bread for hubby who is a type 1 diabetic; that cinnamon sugar coated monkey bread is like poison to him unless he has a sugar low.

A tip from @silversaver888 to soften the crust of bread dough is to brush butter on crust of hot bread; also bring the golden colour of the little loaf of raisin bread out, so a big thank you for that tip!

All we need now is a couple of friends to join us for a cup of coffee and this Monkey Bread will be gone in no time at all!

BON APPETIT FRIENDS!

This has been my contribution towards the exciting weekly @qurator foodie contest,
Qurator's: Hive Top Chef! | Dough
Hope you enjoyed it and that you will join in the fun and show us your dough; thank you for popping into my Hive kitchen :)

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