American Style Biscuits And Monkey Bread

American style biscuits and how to make monkey bread out of them! :)

Posted by Claira

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Bring a little Americana into your kitchen, the biscuit emerged as a distinct food type in the early 19th century, before the American Civil War. African American cooks created a quick, easy and cheap to produce addition for their meals that required no yeast

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You Will Need (8 things)

  • 1 cup Buttermilk
  • 2 tbsp Shortening
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 3 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Cake Flour
  • 1 cup Butter

Steps (10 steps, 30 minutes)

  1. 1

    What you will need for the biscuits, for the English out there I used strong bread flour and plain and it worked just fine :)

  2. 2

    Add all dry ingredients to your mixer..
    both flours
    salt
    baking soda
    baking powder

    blend for a few seconds to combine.

  3. 3

    Add butter and shortening (suet) blend until it looks like sand

  4. 4

    Then add your buttermilk until the mixture comes together into a soft ball of dough.
    So that is your basic American style biscuit dough, you can just cut it into small rounds and have plain biscuits but I am going to make monkey bread with mine! As follows......

  5. 5

    Pre heat oven to 175oc
    Grease a pan, I didn't have a regular bundt tin so used this one which worked fine.

  6. 6

    Add 1 cup of white or brown sugar plus a teaspoon of cinnamon to a bag, toss in your cut up pieces of biscuits and shake until they are well covered.

  7. 7

    Once covered take the out of the bag and place in tin.

  8. 8

    In a small saucepan melt 1/2cup of butter with 1 cup of brown sugar, add a little vanilla to taste.
    Save a little back of this mixture to drizzle over when cooked.

  9. 9

    Pour the mixture over the biscuits and cook for 30-35 minutes

  10. 10

    When cooked drizzle of the remaining butter/sugar mixture, I also added Pecan nuts, it is Monkey bread after all! Enjoy warm with your monkey :)