Pull-Apart Garlic Bread

5 from 1 vote

This mouthwatering pull-apart garlic bread is oozing with melted butter and cheese, all wrapped in a soft loaf of bread.

Prep Time4 30

Cook Time25

Total Time4 55

Course: Appetizer, Bread, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Pull-Apart Garlic Bread Recipe

Servings:

Calories: 337kcal

Defrost frozen bread dough overnight. Once the dough is thawed, set it 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 the dough into a rectangle of approximately 9x12 inches.
Brush the dough heavily with melted butter.
Sprinkle the Italian seasoning over the melted butter.
Sprinkle finely minced garlic over the dough.
Sprinkle the parmesan cheese over the dough.
Use a pizza cutter or knife to cut the dough into 12 squares, about 3x3 inches 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 it 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 to 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 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 the full loaf from the pan and serve.

Raw garlic will not cook in the center of the bread, so be sure to use minced! 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 as desired.
If you have the ‘proof’ setting on your oven, this makes for an ideal location to keep the bread at the perfect temperature while allowing it to rise.
Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to keep a close eye on your bread as the suggested baking time approaches.