Experience the ultimate cheesy indulgence with Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread. This easy-to-make, garlicky masterpiece is covered with melted cheese and garlic butter, creating a mesmerizing pull-apart sensation that’s simply irresistible!
After your first bite, you will be dreaming about this Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread – I guarantee it!
Covered in melty cheese and garlic butter, it absolutely irresistible. Better yet, it’s made with crusty, homemade sourdough bread that perfectly soaks up every bit of garlic butter.
I’m not kidding you, friends and family alike won’t be able to keep their hands off this incredibly easy appetizer or side dish!
Crusty homemade sourdough bread is sliced into beautiful pull-apart pieces, slathered with a classic garlic butter mixture, and stuffed full of melty cheese. Bake in the oven until the bread is golden brown and crispy, while the center is warm, soft, and loaded with butter and melted cheese.
Just watch how far the cheese will stretch when you pull a piece from the loaf!
This is the best bread for any gathering! Plus, it’s a breeze to whip up! But don’t be fooled, though this Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread recipe is easy to make, it is not lacking in flavor.
Serve alone or with your favorite dipping sauce like marinara or ranch dressing. Yum!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe:
Cheesy Goodness:
Pieces of delicious sourdough bread covered in melty cheese, are you kidding me? What can get better than that? Fresh from the oven, grab a piece of the bread and watch how the gooey cheese will stretch to grand heights!
Easy Side Dish / Appetizer:
Without a doubt, this will be the most requested appetizer! It’s a finger-licking good appetizer for any football season hangouts and a showstopping side dish for the dinner table.
Easy Recipe:
This addicting garlic bread recipe is a breeze to make! Simply slice, lather, stuff, and bake for the best bread around!
Ingredients
Loaf of Bread – I used my homemade sourdough boule for this recipe, but you can save yourself time by buying a dense type of bread, like sourdough bread or a crusty French loaf, to save you some time!
Melty Cheese – Mozzarella Cheese and Asiago Cheese is my favorite cheese blend for this Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread, but any combination of melty cheese will do! Switch it up and try using varieties like sharp cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese, Monterey jack cheese, Gruyere, etc!
Butter – Any butter will do. You can also substitute melted butter with oil. I would suggest olive oil for the best flavor.
Parsley – While I’m still in the summer months, I love to use fresh herbs from the garden in any way that I can! I stuck with just parsley, but you can experiment. You can opt for dried parsley, as well.
Salt – Any salt will do, but my favorite is Redmond’s Unrefined Fine Sea Salt for extra natural minerals.
Garlic – For this garlic bread recipe, I highly suggest using fresh raw garlic. Mincing up a few cloves of garlic will give you the best garlicky flavor. However, you can substitute with garlic powder.
Supplies
Serrated Knife or Sharp Knife
Cheese Grater
Aluminum Foil
Rimming Baking Sheet
How to Make Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread
Bake a loaf of my Easy Sourdough Bread or purchase a crusty sourdough loaf from the store.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, minced garlic, chopped parsley, and salt. Set to the side.
With a bread knife, slice the loaf of sourdough bread into 1-inch slices. Be careful not to slice all the way through the bread! You want to keep the bottom of the loaf intact. Then rotate the bread a quarter turn to cut again to create a grid pattern with diamond shapes.
With a spoon or pastry brush, spread the garlic herb butter in all the cracks and crevices of the sliced bread. I like to brush the top of the entire loaf with the remaining garlic butter.
Stuff the slices with plenty of cheese.
Cover the Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Bread completely with a piece of foil, place on a baking sheet, and bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove the foil from the top of the loaf and continue to bake for 5-10 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the sourdough bread is golden brown.
Time Saving Tips
To make Sourdough Cheese Pull-Apart Bread ahead of time, swap the melted butter for room-temperature butter and mix it with the minced garlic, fresh parsley, and salt. Spread that onto the slices of bread and stuff with cheese. Cover the pull apart cheese bread with foil and store in the fridge until ready to bake.
Oftentimes, if I’m serving this at a family member’s or friend’s house, I will bake it there for fresh from-the-oven cheesy garlic bread!
How to Serve
Sourdough Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread is dynamite served on its own. Pieces of sourdough bread soaked in garlic butter and covered in melty cheese are already a flavor-bomb to be enjoyed!
Honestly, my favorite part is the bottom crust. That’s where all the garlic butter goes and it is a heavenly bite!
For more delicious flavor, serve this pull-apart cheese bread with a dipping sauce, like homemade ranch, pizza sauce, or even an extra melted butter mixture!
How to Store
Store leftover Sourdough Cheese Pull-Apart Bread wrapped in foil in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Reheat in the microwave for 1-2 minutes, or until the cheese gets all melty again. The crust still stays crunchy this way!
Or place in a 350-degree oven for 10-15 minutes, or until heated through.
FAQs:
Do I have to bake my own sourdough bread?
Baking your own fresh sourdough loaf, though absolutely tasty, is not a must. Save yourself some time and buy a dense type of bread from the store!
What is the best cheese for sourdough cheese pull-apart bread?
For the best cheese pull, it is crucial to use super melty cheese! Mozzarella cheese is going to give you that best showstopping cheese pull moment, but feel free to mix and match it with other flavorful cheeses like Gruyere, Cheddar Cheese, Monterey Jack Cheese, and others!
I also highly suggest that you us freshly grated cheese. Pre-grated cheese from the store won’t melt as well as fresh does. Trust me!
Happy snacking!
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Sourdough Cheese and Garlic Pull-Apart Bread Recipe
Experience the ultimate cheesy indulgence with Sourdough Pull-Apart Cheese Bread. This easy-to-make, garlicky masterpiece is covered with melted cheese and garlic butter, creating a mesmerizing pull-apart sensation that's simply irresistible!
Ingredients
- 1 loaf of Sourdough Bread
- 8 Tablespoon butter, melted (1 stick)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 Tablespoon parsley, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 cup asiago cheese, shredded
Instructions
1. Bake a loaf of my Easy Sourdough Bread or purchase a crusty sourdough loaf from the store.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together 8 Tablespoons of melted butter, 3 cloves of minced garlic, 2 Tablespoons of chopped parsley, and 3/4 teaspoon of salt. Set to the side.
4. With a bread knife, slice the loaf of sourdough bread into 1-inch slices. Be careful not to slice all the way through the bread! You want to keep the bottom of the loaf intact. Then rotate the bread a quarter turn to cut again to create a grid pattern with diamond shapes.
5. With a spoon or pastry brush, spread the garlic herb butter in all the cracks and crevices of the sliced bread. I like to brush the top of the entire loaf with the remaining garlic butter.
6. Mix a cup of shredded mozzarella and a cup of shredded asiago cheese together. Stuff into the bread slices.
7. Cover the Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Bread completely with a piece of foil, place on a baking sheet, and bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove the foil from the top of the loaf and continue to bake for 5-10 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the sourdough bread is golden brown.
8. Remove from the oven and serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce!
Notes
Time-Saving Tips
To make Sourdough Cheese Pull-Apart Bread ahead of time, swap the melted butter for room-temperature butter and mix it with the minced garlic, fresh parsley, and salt. Spread that onto the slices of bread and stuff with cheese. Cover the pull apart cheese bread with foil and store in the fridge until ready to bake.
Oftentimes, if I'm serving this at a family member's or friend's house, I will bake it there for fresh from-the-oven cheesy garlic bread!
How to Serve
Sourdough Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread is dynamite served on its own. Pieces of sourdough bread soaked in garlic butter and covered in melty cheese are already a flavor-bomb to be enjoyed!
For more delicious flavor, serve this pull-apart cheese bread with a dipping sauce, like homemade ranch, pizza sauce, or even an extra melted butter mixture!
How to Store
Store leftover Sourdough Cheese Pull-Apart Bread wrapped in foil in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Reheat in the microwave for 1-2 minutes, or until the cheese gets all melty again. The crust still stays crunchy this way!
Or place in a 350-degree oven for 10-15 minutes, or until heated through.
This looks sooo good! Perfect for dipping in all the fall soups, can’t wait to try it out!
Yes!! This bread and all the soups, yum!
WOW! Yum! I am going to be making some sourdough bread bowls which are ultimately mini loafs and I think it would be fun to make a mini pull apart loaf with one of the bread bowls. This really looks like fun!
I made this cheese bread for an appetizer at Thanksgiving. It was awesome! Going to be making it again for Christmas!
Isn’t it so good? I mean you can’t go wrong with sourdough bread, melty cheese, and garlic butter! I hope it is enjoyed just as much this Christmas. Thank you for sharing.