Monkey Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. unsifted flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 pkg. dry yeast
2 Tbsp. softened butter
1 egg
poppy seed

Preparation

Grease a 12-cup fluted tube pan.
In a large bowl, blend 1 1/2 cups of flour, sugar, salt, yeast, water, margarine and egg at low speed until moistened.
Beat 3 minutes at medium speed.
Stir in remaining flour by hand.
Knead dough on floured surface about 1 minute.
Press or roll out to a 15 x 12-inch rectangle.
Cut dough into diamonds by cutting 2-inch diagonal cuts across dough.
Melt 1/3 additional cup of butter; dip each piece of dough into butter and place in bottom of tube pan.
Place enough pieces in pan to make first layer, then sprinkle with poppy seed.
Repeat until all dough pieces have been used.
Cover; let rise in warm place until doubled.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes in preheated 375\u00b0 oven.
Cool 2 minutes.
Invert.
Serve warm.