Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread (Pull Apart Bread)
Recipe video above. This is garlic bread - on crack! Great to share with a crowd, or as a centre piece for dinner accompanied by a simple salad.
Ingredients
- 1 crusty loaf, preferably sourdough or Vienna
- 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese (or other melting cheese)
- 100 g / 1 stick (8 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large garlic cloves, minced
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 180C/350F.
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Combine butter, garlic and salt in a heatproof bowl and melt in the microwave. Stir through parsley.
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Cut the bread on a diagonal into 2cm/1" diamonds but do not cut all the way through the bread.
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Use your fingers or a knife to pry open each crack and drizzle in a teaspoon of butter and stuff in a pinch of cheese. This might sound like a bit of an effort, but I promise you it is worth it! You don't need to be super neat, it's nice to have some of the butter drizzled over the crust.
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Brush surface with remaining butter.
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Wrap with foil and bake for 20 minutes until the cheese has mostly melted, then unwrap and bake for 5 - 10 minutes more to make the bread nice and crusty.
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Serve immediately. (See note 1 for best make ahead methods)