This Cheesy Pull Apart Bread is brushed with seasoned garlic butter and stuffed with mozzarella cheese for a delicious cheesy garlic bread recipe that is fun to serve at holiday gatherings or game day parties. It also works as a side dish to any saucy pasta dinner.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- Each bite is full of delicious garlic flavor and melty cheese and perfect for football season
- This delicious warm, easy cheesy pull apart bread is cut into pluckable cubes making it a fun and delicious finger food
- It is like your favorite cheesy garlic bread in pull apart form
- It will be the most popular item on the table at your next party
🥘 Ingredients
Round loaf of sourdough bread: I feel sourdough bread is the best bread but you can an Italian loaf of bread.
Salted butter
Fresh garlic cloves
Whole peppercorn: this will be crushed with mortar and pestle, but you can also use a pepper mill if you have one
Salt, use only if needed to taste.
Parsley
Mozzarella cheese: use pre-shredded part skim mozzarella cheese for the best results.
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a dutch oven or large cast iron skillet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Using a bread knife, cut loaf in 1” slices, but not all the way through.
- Turn the loaf 90° and cut slice through the loaf in the opposite direction to previous slices and repeat slicing. You will end up with pluckable cubes of bread.
- Add freshly cracked pepper, parsley, salt, garlic and butter to a small bowl. Melt butter mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds, then combine butter with seasonings.
- Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the loaf with the melted butter mixture on the inside and outside of the loaf.
- Stuff the shredded cheese into all the cut sections of the bread.
- Place loaf in prepared dish and bake for 15 minutes, until cheese is melted and loaf is toasty and golden brown.
- Cool slightly before serving.
🥄 Equipment
Cast iron skillet or large baking sheet
🥫Storage
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge up to 4 days.
📖 Variations
- Substitute the mozzarella cheese with cheddar cheese, monterey jack cheese, or any semi soft cheese that will give you the cheese pulls!
- Substitute 1 teaspoon garlic powder for the garlic cloves.
- Cut the bread into diamond shapes instead of cubes for a fancier look!
💭 Tips
- If the top of the loaf is browning too quickly, cover with a sheet of aluminum foil to prevent over browning.
📚 Related Recipes
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These Homemade Croutons are the perfect garnish to a green salad.
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Don't forget to set out a relish tray with these Bread and Butter Pickles.
🍽 Serve with...
Serve with a side of pizza sauce or marinara for dipping.
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📖 Recipe
Cheesy Pull Apart Bread
Equipment
- Cast iron skillet or large baking sheet
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Ingredients
- 1 loaf sourdough bread , round shape perferred
- ½ cup salted butter
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon parsley , minced
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a dutch oven or large cast iron skillet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Using a bread knife, cut loaf in 1” slices, but not all the way through. Turn the loaf 90° and cut slice through the loaf in the opposite direction to previous slices and repeat slicing. You will end up with pluckable cubes of bread.
- Add freshly cracked pepper, parsley, salt, garlic and butter to a small bowl. Melt butter mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds, then combine butter with seasonings.
- Using a silicone pastry brush, coat the loaf with the melted butter mixture on the inside and outside of the loaf.
- Stuff the shredded cheese into all the cut sections of the bread.
- Place loaf in prepared dish and bake for 15 minutes, until cheese is melted and loaf is toasty and golden brown.
- Cool slightly before serving.
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