Cheese & Garlic Pull Apart Bread

By dena

Ingredients

• 1 crusty loaf, preferably sourdough or Vienna
• 3/4 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese (or other melting cheese)
• 100 g/3.5oz unsalted butter, softened
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 3/8 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F.
Melt butter and then mix in other Garlic Butter ingredients.
~Cut the bread on a diagonal into 2cm/1" diamonds but do not cut all the way through the bread (just like you would cut a french stick for garlic bread).
~Use your fingers or a knife to pry open each crack and drizzle in a teaspoon of butter and stuff in a pinch of cheese. This might sound like a bit of an effort, but I promise you it is worth it! You don't need to be super neat, it's nice to have some of the butter drizzled over the crust.
~Wrap with foil and bake for 15minutes until the cheese has mostly melted, then unwrap and bake for 5 minutes more to make the bread nice and crusty.
~Serve immediately.