Cheese Garlic Bread (From Scratch)
Recipe: #19486
June 10, 2015
Categories: Breads, Cheese, Cheddar, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake No Eggs, Vegetarian, Yeast Bread, Flour, Kosher Dairy, more
"Made it-loved it! Hope you do to! Yields 2 loaves"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (97.6 g)
- Calories 216.7
- Total Fat - 4.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.4 g
- Cholesterol - 10.5 mg
- Sodium - 429 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 35.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.1 g
- Sugars - 2.4 g
- Protein - 11.4 g
- Calcium - 186.1 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a large bowl, stir water, honey and yeast together. Let yeast proof 5 minutes. Once you know yeast is active, stir in salt and the flour in 1/4 cup increments (if you are using a stand mixer, be sure to not increase your speed higher than a 2 or ‘stir’). Once dough starts pulling away from the sides and the bowl and seems to be pretty clean, set a timer for 5 minutes and walk away. Let the machine knead the dough. After 5 minutes, dough should be smooth and tacky but when touched shouldn’t leave any dough on your fingers.
Step 2
Grease the bowl and the dough. Cover with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel and let rise 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Step 3
Punch down dough and cut into two equal portions. Form into two long baguettes the length of the cookie sheet. I like to twist mine because it looks cool, but it also keeps its length and doesn’t shrink.
Step 4
Cover with plastic wrap and rise 30 minutes.
Step 5
Start to preheat oven to 400 degrees F and place dough close to the oven where it’s nice and warm.
Step 6
Once oven is preheated, remove plastic wrap, from the dough reduce oven to 350F, put the bread into the oven and bake 20 minutes.
Step 7
In the meantime, slice the cheese into thin slices and melt the butter.
Step 8
Pull loaves of bread out of the oven after 20 minutes, then brush with the melted garlic butter. Bake another 5-7 minutes or until bread begins to turn a golden brown. Remove from oven and cool 15 minutes.
Step 9
Cut 1-inch slices 3/4′s of the the way through the loaves. Brush garlic butter in between each slice and fill with a slice of cheese. Bake another 3-5 minutes or until cheese is completely melted.
Step 10
Serve immediately.
Tips
No special items needed.