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Dough:

4 cups of white flour
2 tablespoons of butter
1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of dry yeast
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 egg
1 and 1/8 cups of milk

Add all of the above ingredients in the order
recommended by your bread machine and run it on the basic setting.

Coatings
While the machine is mixing the dough, prepare the coatings.
Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a small bowl and set it aside.

In a second small bowl mix the following:

1/2 cup of packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup of white sugar
2 tablespoons of white flour
2 of ground cinnamon

After the dough is finished mixing, remove it, turn the machine off and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (or 180 C). Roll 1 inch balls of dough through the melted butter first and then through the dry mixture. Place the coated balls in a greased pan (I use either one large bundt pan or six little ones) and then cover lightly with a tea towel for about an hour. The dough will rise to roughly double it’s size. Finally place the pans in the preheated oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Glaze
If you want your monkey bread to be really naughty/lovely, make this white glaze for it.

1 cup of icing (powdered) sugar
2 teaspoons of melted butter
1 to 2 tablespoons of milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Combine all ingredients to make a thin glaze and drizzle it over warm monkey bread.