Culinary Adventures with Camilla

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our  Pinterest board  right here. Links are also updated after each event on the  BreadBakers home page .  We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. This month Jenni of Pastry Chef Online has selected stuffed breads as our theme. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send an email with your blog URL to Stacy at foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com. Here's our Stuffed Breads Basket... Sweet Breads Chocolate Caramel Stuffed Monkey Bread from Robin at A Shaggy Dough Story Cinnamon Roll Quickbread from Laura at Baking in Pyjamas Cream Pan - Japanese Custard Filled Buns from Shireen at Ruchik Randhap Figgy Olive Oil and Sesame Challah from Sarah at What Smells So Good? Jam filled Danish Pastries from Holly at A Baker's House ...

This is a catch-up post. I made this Christmas morning and forgot to post it...until now. Whoops. I had never made monkey bread. I don't even really know what it is...but I figured it sounded like an easy thing to pop in the oven and bake while we all opened presents, chugged eggnog, and lounged around in our pajamas till we had to go to the larger Mateo family celebration in the afternoon. I tossed in some roasted, peeled chestnuts and used the last of my Hachiya persimmons from my friend Shiho to make ours a little bit more festive. As I mentioned, I really had no idea what monkey bread was made from, so I made a cinnamon roll kind of dough. 1 T active yeast 2 t organic granulated sugar pulp from 2 Hachiya persimmons 2 C white whole wheat flour pinch salt 1 T olive oil 1/2 stick butter 2 C roasted, peeled chestnuts 3/4 C organic turbinado sugar 1 T pumpkin pie spice Combine yeast, 1/2 C warm water and granulated sugar together in a mixing bow...