Monkey Bread With Ambrosia and Butterscotch Sauce

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At 1789 Restaurant successful Washington, D.C., pastry cook Ryan Westover adds refined touches, including an updated mentation of ambrosia, to monkey breadstuff and creates a blase yet playful dish. If you had clip to marque lone the monkey breadstuff and butterscotch sauce, you'd inactive person a good dessert.

He lets the dough ferment for 2 days, to springiness it a spot of sourdough tang, earlier proofing it. If you find your room a small cool, Westover suggests putting a cookware of just-boiled h2o successful the bottommost of a acold oven, truthful the oven becomes a proofing box.

Feel escaped to adhd other garnishes to this dessert, Westover says, specified cherries, toasted coconut oregon nuts. He likes to usage bachelor's button, shown successful the accompanying photograph.

You'll request a standard-size, 12-well muffin pan. The monkey breadstuff is champion served warm; to bash that, you'd request to marque the condiment and ambrosia successful advance.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for 2 days. Once it has been portioned, it needs 2 1/2 hours' rising time. The ambrosia needs to beryllium refrigerated for 1 hour. The butterscotch condiment tin beryllium made up to 2 days successful beforehand and refrigerated.

From Ryan Westover, pastry cook astatine 1789 Restaurant successful Georgetown.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12

For the monkey bread

2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 cupful lukewarm water
1/2 spoon progressive adust yeast
3 ample eggs
2 1/2 cups breadstuff flour, preferably King Arthur brand
1/2 spoon salt
1 spoon crushed cinnamon
14 tablespoons (1 3/4 sticks) unsalted butter, preferably Kerrygold brand, astatine country temperature
4 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon sweetener (1 1/2 teaspoons crushed cinnamon mixed with 1 tablespoonful granulated sugar)
1 baking apple, specified arsenic Granny Smith, Cameo, Stayman oregon Pink Lady, peeled, cored and chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
Vanilla crystal cream, for serving (optional)

For the ambrosia

2 cups water
1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
1 baking apple, specified arsenic Granny Smith, Cameo, Stayman oregon Pink Lady
1 Cara Cara orange
1 cupful chilled dense cream
1 tablespoonful confectioners' sugar
1 vanilla bean, divided and scraped
1/4 cupful regular oregon low-fat plain Greek-style yogurt
1 tablespoonful bourbon oregon brandy

For the sauce

1/2 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
2 tablespoons water
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1/4 cupful dense cream
1/8 spoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons brandy

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
430
Fat
27 g
Saturated Fat
17 g
Carbohydrates
39 g
Sodium
150 mg
Cholesterol
130 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
16 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Ryan Westover, pastry cook astatine 1789 Restaurant successful Georgetown.

Published December 24, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026