Author: Darryl Alder

Essentially this is a Sourdough Cinnamon Roll recipe, but the rolls are quartered, rolled in butter, cinnamon, and sugar, then baked in a fluted pan. Popularized in the 1950s, break-aparts have been a dutch oven staple at many Scout Camps but known as monkey bread there. Being basically a finger food, Scouts pick apart the bread like a monkey giving this treat the dubious moniker “monkey bread.”
The recipe probably came to America as a Hungarian bread known as a golden dumpling. It can be far nicer than a bunch of hungry boys grabbing for pieces from a cast iron pot. To be sure, this is not just for camp, since Nancy Reagan
served it in the White House for Christmas one year. But it works at brunch, like a desert, and is surely good as a “breakfast bread” too.