Or, you know, you could plan ahead, but with only a year’s notice, it seems unfair that we should be expected to. Here in New York City, I find that most street carts sell currently ripe bananas, if you pass one along your way. Next, it helps to have old bananas, which is annoying when stores only want to sell you unforgivably green ones with maximum shelf lives. First, who is going to watch the baby once you realize that one year-olds have kitchen enthusiasm, but terrible knife skills? It helps to have a sunny day, a self-sufficient dad and a park nearby with lots of leaves for the baby to eat investigate. This is not a difficult cake to make (a two-bowl cake and a one-bowl frosting), but there are logistics to consider. I may or may not have spent 45 minutes last week practicing doodling monkeys so I could get it right.
I may or may not have started planning this in June. But we don’t bear grudges, in fact, I figured if I could only get my act together for one single birthday cake this year, it might as well be a cake for the monkey.
It turns out, babies keep you really busy. Of course, the joke is on me because who went without a homemade birthday cake this year? Yup, you’re looking at her. Or, perhaps, one’s entire life to date, for the first birthday set. I hope to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get the fluffy, towering, butter-laden imperfectly frosted, slightly crooked homemade cake they deserve for making it through another year. Not judgmental-sad, because lord knows I could barely eke out this cake on Saturday, and it’s supposed to be, like, my calling, but empathetic-sad because I totally blame lousy, intimidating recipes for making the two-layer + frosting task seem not worth it to go it at home. When I think of someone being presented with some shortening spackled quarter sheet cake from a discount grocery chain on their birthday - a day they only get to celebrate once a year! Which is like forever if you’re a kid or perhaps the sort of grownup who didn’t get the memo that at the age of 34, birthdays are really not supposed to be a big deal anymore - it makes me sad. Once you’ve mastered this monkey bread, we’ve got more flavours for you to try out, from sweet s’mores to savory buffalo chicken.I’m pretty serious about birthday cakes. Add a glass of milk or serve with coffee and chances of any leftovers are significantly low. Combining the comfort food taste of Pillsbury biscuits with the sweet taste of warm caramel and cinnamon, this no-fail monkey bread recipe makes 12 servings. To make it even better, we’ve cut the monkey business down by using just a few simple ingredients and completing the recipe in four easy-to-follow steps. In 1982, former First Lady Nancy Reagan commented to White House Staff that monkey bread was named as such “because when you make it, you have to monkey around with it.” However monkey bread was named and came to be, we are happy that it did. Another theory is simply that the pastry is eaten by picking apart the bread as a monkey would. Ever wonder how monkey bread was named? There are several theories, including one that says the loaf resembles the monkey puzzle tree, a relative of the Norfolk Island Pine.
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