Notes: Sauce recipe: Pasta: Recipes From the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome Making monkey bread requires understanding a method more than a recipe. Essentially, you take cold pizza dough, divide it into small balls, roll those balls into a flavored butter, cram those balls together into a vessel, top with grated cheese if desired and bake until golden. I've been using two small cast-iron skillets, each of which holds about a half-pound of dough. So if you're looking to feed a crowd, I would suggest estimating a pound of dough for a standard-sized cast iron skillet. You can bake monkey bread in Bundt pans, too, though I've never tried it — you might need as many as two pounds of dough for a Bundt pan. Adjust butter, garlic, thyme quantities to taste.