TO KNEAD AND BE NEEDED!!!!!!!

     Now this will be a day that those little ones talk about over and over again.... and it all started with a recipe called:

MONKEY BREAD

 

 

2 cups warm water

1/2cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 T. Yeast

2 eggs, well-beaten

4 T. vegetable oil

6 cups flour

1 square butter

 

     Mix the water, sugar, and salt.  Add yeast and let rest 5 minutes.  Stir in 3 cups flour.  Add 4T. vegetable oil. Add 3 cups more of flour until smooth. Knead. Cover and let rise until double.  Stir down, let rise until double again.  Melt butter in a Bundt pan.  Roll dough to 1/2 inch thick.  Cut with a biscuit cutter.  Dip each piece in butter and line up in the pan around all edges.  Let rise 30 min. Bake 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.  Invert on a plate and let everyone pull a piece off.

 

     I pulled a chair up to the counter and of course washed all of our hands and then let the children help make this amazing monkey bread.  They laughed and laughed at just the thought of it being call MONKEY BREAD!

     After our hands were caked with dough and really messy of course, we soon realized that we needed MORE flour to make the dough just right.  I turned to Andrew and said ought oh!  Problem, look at our hands and who is going to dip the measuring cup into the flour for more lol.  Well Andrew said no problem, I will, as he took his doughy hands and sure enough just dipped them right in the flour and had a gooey hand full.  I just laughed and we both just laughed.  Then time to knead the dough, I gave him some of his own and then I had my own and we pushed and pulled and grunted ha ha.  Then we rolled and cut and dipped the circles in butter and just had an amazing time.  Well once the dough was raised we put it in the oven and we had a total monkey bread mess ha ha.  But we took it out and turned it over and He was so so proud to announce his MONKEY BREAD to everyone! It was so yummy!

 

     Along with this fun Bread, don't forget to sing the 5 little monkeys siting in a tree song and be sure and read.  5 little monkeys jumping on the Bed. 

 

     You know, it's really easy to wipe a little flour off of your shirt and apron.  It's even easier to just sweep up the extra flour and wipe off the chairs with the spilt leftovers.  But ...... 

 

     I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT IT WILL BE A LONG, LONG TIME BEFORE THE MEMORY YOU CREATED THAT DAY WITH THOSE LITTLE ONES, WILL EVER BE ERASED FROM THEIR MINDS.......

     and that's what happens when you go to good old GRANDMA'S ATTIC, to find lasting treasures to SHARE with those adorable little ones.

 

Here's to another wonderful day with GRANDMAS COOKIES AND MONKEY BREAD ADDED IN!