Money Bread Recipe that [during Halloween] Can Be Called 'SPOOKS EARS'!!!

Whether you call it 'Monkey Bread' or whether during Halloween you call them 'Spooks Ears' . . . this treat is just 'plain good'. The flavor, texture and aroma of these little mini-donuts is definitely worth some attention!

One of the times that we had a bake sale at work, I made up a bunch of brown paper lunch bags, and put a certain quantity of spooks ears in each bag. They were very popular, and I had requests from coworkers to 'bring some more' spooks ears to work.

They loved them! I had over forty bags of spooks ears from the 'one' bag of 24 refrigerator rolls; and I had at least one dozen 'ears' in each bag. I had cut each 'ball' into fourths, and so the resulting 'ear' was a triangle shape.

How did I do it?

You start with frozen bread dough. Let it thaw. You will need to cut 1-inch pieces from your piece of dough. Do not worry about doing this 'right or wrong'. There is no wrong way. You will get a lot of pieces from your original piece, as the yeast will keep doubling as the temperature of your dough increases.

Deep-frying is the easiest cooking method. You will need to heat your deep fryer before you start. A good temperature ranges from 365 to 375, Hopefully; you can adjust your temperature to suit your application.

I have used the home-style roll dough and cut each ball into four pieces to start with. When I use a bag of 24 balls and I cut the initial balls into fours, later, as it thaws and grows, the balls get cut into as many as eight pieces - and the size is the same as the original pieces you tried to cut.

The bread will increase in size after it reaches a certain 'room' temperature.

The drill: Cut pieces of dough. Drop it in the deep fryer. Let it puff up, get brown, and then take them out. You have to have a mixture of sugar and cinnamon ready to 'toss' the little fried balls into. The oil from the deep fryer will keep the donuts moist enough to retain the sugar on the outside of the donut.

You cannot put too much cinnamon in your sugar to coat the little dough balls with. I like to put two cups of sugar in a zip-lock bag and add 2 Tablespoons of cinnamon.

Oh-hh-hh-h, my mouth is watering just 'thinking' about them. [Yours will too, once you experience them!]