Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Bread

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5 from 2 votes

Moist fresh baked bread, filled with garlic, parmesan, and butter is baked to perfection to make a pull-apart style appetizer or side dish.

Prep Time4

Cook Time25

Total Time4 25

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 337kcal

Author: Jennifer Fishkind

Ingredients

16 oz loaf of frozen or refrigerated bread dough
½ cup salted butter melted
½-1 tsp Italian seasoning
2-3 cloves of garlic minced
2-3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

Defrost frozen bread dough overnight and/or once dough is thawed, set out at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
Grease a loaf pan with butter and set aside.
Use a rolling pin (or your fingers) to spread dough into a rectangle approximately 9”x12” inches. Brush dough heavily with melted butter.
Sprinkle Italian seasoning over the melted butter.
Sprinkle finely minced garlic over the dough. (raw garlic will not cook in the center of the bread - if you want a milder flavor, use less garlic, garlic paste, roasted garlic, or even garlic salt. For a stronger garlic flavor, use more garlic.)
Sprinkle parmesan cheese over the dough.
Use a pizza cutter or knife to cut the dough into 12 squares, about 3”x3” each. Stack the squares on top of each other, forming a little pile.
Carefully transfer the stack of dough and lie it on its side in the prepared loaf pan. You can see how the dough slightly resembles a reshaped “loaf”, but the dough will not fill the whole bottom of the loaf pan until it rises.
Cover the pan with a light dishcloth and set in a warm, draft-free location to rise (the proof setting on the oven works great). Allow the dough to rise until the stacked layers have puffed up to the top of the loaf pan and filled it completely (this could take 2-3 hours).
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Brush the risen bread with more melted butter. Cover the loaf pan loosely with aluminum foil.
Bake the bread (covered) for a total of 25 minutes, removing the foil cover for the last 5 minutes of baking.
Remove from the oven and brush with any remaining butter.
Serve hot straight out of the pan or remove full loaf from the pan and serve.

Notes

Storage:

This bread goes really quick. It’s one of those dishes that you keep coming back for, and before you know it, it’s gone! If you do have any leftovers, cover them with plastic wrap or store in an airtight container for 1-2 days. You can either store this in the fridge or at room temperature. You can enjoy leftovers cold, at room temperature, or pop them in the microwave to heat and soften the bread just a bit.

Tips:

Allowing the dough to rise up above the top of the loaf pan will make a really puffy loaf that is easy to pull apart.

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