Lattof Farm opened on June 24 and I was too busy to stop for my favorite food product of all Cape Ann (besides lobster). Until this weekend. At 9:30 AM every morning the Monkey Bread (uppercase) comes out of the oven. This is not your normal monkey bread (lowercase). This has a wee bit extra sugar, butter, and cinnamon in it. Even if your kids find it and try to eat all the really gooey pieces the last piece will still be just as gooey as the first.
Unwrapped:
And then, like a monkey, no knife, just fingers, you pull a chunk off:
The 9:30 AM timing is not precise but I sometimes just keep driving by because you can see them on the shelf on the right-hand side top shelf. Go to the dump, drive by, maybe go circle around Dock Square. Getting them right out of the oven is killer but it is also the fear that there are ten other people circling the block and when you do stop the last one is placed in someone else’s shopping bag. That happened once and the tears would not stop …
Reconsidering my strategy for the Blackburn Challenge in ten days. It’s quite possible that the wind will be blowing and the boat will be rocking. I need more ballast. That’s where the Monkey Bread comes in. If I eat one of these every morning for the next ten days I think I will have plenty of ballast to make it around Cape Ann.
Tomorrow’s post will be of the Rockport bonfire. I can’t even look at those photos right now, too hot.
Good Morning Gloucester 
It’s all about the ballast! Good thinking Paul. Strategery!
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yum….monkey bread…..and yes….adds significant ballast…….
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I do actually have to fit inside my kayak so this might get complicated. Maybe if I sit in the kayak while I eat the Monkey Bread?
Yeah, that’ll work.
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I am so glad that you enjoy our monkey bread Paul! Come back often! We also make it in the winter for special orders, ask at the stand next time you are there!
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I can special order some for Thanksgiving weekend? Be still my heart. I will be asking about this the next time I stop by. I will be the one in the Good Morning Gloucester T-Shirt that makes me look pregnant. (It’s the shirt, not the monkey bread.)
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Great Name for your next Kayak. “Monkey Bread”
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I already bought it, paddled it for the last three days and it is 38 pounds compared to 70 pounds that I did the Blackburn Challenge in. “Hot knife through butter” would be a better name.
I seriously am backing off on the desserts as it is like trying to get on an antsy race horse just getting in it. But I’ll always have room for some Lattof Farm Monkey Bread.
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Hi there! Im wondering what the Lattof monkey bread contains? Im a Lattof in sweden and this looks very good!
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I just grabbed this off the internet. I think the Lattof secret in the recipe is to add a wee bit more butter and brown sugar. Each chunk has to be gooey.
4 cans refrigerated biscuits
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter (3/4 cup)
1/2 cup white sugar
2 Tablespoons cinnamon
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9-10 inch tube pan.
2. Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a medium sized plastic bag. Cut the biscuits into halves or quarters and place six to eight biscuit pieces in the sugar cinnamon mix. Shake well.
3. Arrange pieces in the bottom of the greased pan. Continue layering until all the biscuit pieces are coated and in the pan. If you are using raisins, place them among the biscuit pieces as you are layering.
4. In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the brown sugar over medium heat. Boil for 1 minute. Pour over the layered biscuits.
5. Bake for 35 minutes. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Pull apart and stuff in Paul’s mouth.
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Wondering if Lattof Farms makes any GLUTEN FREE, PRESERVATIVE FREE BREADS???
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Hopefully never. While there are a few people in the world who actually have a gluten allergy there are tons more people on the gluten free fad bandwagon. Pass me a beer with gluten. What kills me is stickers on food that never would have gluten to begin with. Gluten free banana! Oh I’ll pay more for that banana because the cool sticker!
As for preservatives I hope they continue to use them. A little BHTA and EDTA so my monkey bread does not go green and moldy in a day like the bread I used to get from Whole Foods. That stuff can kill you and a lot of people have serious allergies to mold. Not that any monkey bread I purchase from Lattof ever sticks around for more than 24 hours but if it ever did I hope the BHTA (which is an anti-oxidant and very good for you) is up to snuff.
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