Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread

BySamantha Skaggs December 28, 2020

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Drenched with garlic butter and stuffed with cheddar, Swiss, and bacon, this decadent and loaded Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread will be the star of your Super Bowl party or any gathering!

So...have you ever come across a recipe that you just couldn't stop thinking about? And that thinking eventually led to obsessing, until one day you found yourself on an impromptu trip to the grocery store to procure the necessary ingredients for finally bringing said recipe to fruition in your very own kitchen? That, my friends, is how this gooey, melty, Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread was born!

I never encountered a recipe for this particular variation, per se, but the concept of pull-apart bread is one that I first discovered around Super Bowl time last year. I kept seeing these cross-hatched, cheese-oozing loaves on Pinterest, and I knew that we (as in, the bread and I) were meant to be. So it's taken a whole year, but I finally decided that I could go on no longer without baking up my own hunk of pull-apart goodness.

Ingredients

In creating this ultimate football-watching appetizer, I decided to incorporate some of my personal favorite flavors. And let me tell you...this bread indeed includes quite a few of my most favorite things to eat in general.

Let's examine the list:

bread
butter
bacon
garlic
cheese

Yup. This bread is heaven-sent...if heaven is a place where carbs, calories, and cholesterol don't exist. 😉

But let's not think about that too much. This butter-soaked, cheese-drenched bread is clearly not something one would eat every day. Of course, if one is a food blogger who bakes it for a post, one may find herself none-too-reluctantly eating it for lunch for several consecutive days. After all, it would be a travesty to let all of those fine ingredients to go to waste.

Yes, it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

Adaptations

Feel free to customize the flavors by substituting your favorite cheeses.

I think Swiss cheese goes really well with bacon, but Swiss alone can be kind of overpowering, so I used an equal amount of cheddar to mellow it out a bit.

But I can think of lots of different cheese combos that would be delicious...I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to throw in some pepper jack next time.

Also, you may want to tweak the amount of fresh garlic to your personal preference. We are big fans of garlic at my house, and 4 teaspoons of fresh minced garlic made for some pretty garlicky bread. If you prefer a more subtle garlic flavor, don't hesitate to cut that in half.

As for the bread itself, I bought a big loaf of rustic Italian bread, but French bread would work beautifully as well. My husband even thought this recipe would be really good with sourdough, and I think he may be onto something.

And there you have it! Make this Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread, and I promise that it will be the most popular appetizer at your Super Bowl party.

Just don't be like me and wait until next year's Super Bowl before you get around to trying it. Add it to your grocery list before Sunday and end football season with a bang! I promise...the salads and the quinoa and the whole wheat this or that will still be waiting for you tomorrow. 😉

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