Camembert Fondue Tower

By CheeseDiva

Ingredients

• OR:
• 100g butter
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tbsp dried parsley
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 small loaf sourdough bread
• 500g bread dough
• 4 camembert
• 50g bacon, chopped and fried
• 4 camembert cheeses
• 2 pizza dough
• 500g small potaoes
• small sausages
• Olive oil
• Salt & pepper
• Parsley

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180°C/360°F.
To make the garlic butter mix together the butter, garlic, salt and dried parsley.
Make the garlic bread toast dippers - cut the loaf into strips and brush with the garlic butter. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Meanwhile, trim the tops and bottoms of the camembert off (leave one with it's bottom skin on to be at the bottom of the pile).
Roll out the bread dough and place this camembert, skin side down, in the middle. Scatter with bacon pieces and place another camembert on top, followed by another one with bacon pieces, until all four are balanced on top of each other.
Bring the dough up around and pinch together to seal the camembert in. Wrap another piece around it to seal it in even more.
Bake for around 20 minutes until the dough is golden and the camembert has melted.
Serve with the warm garlic bread dippers.

OR:

Cut the top rind off all 4 cheeses, and the base rind off 3 of them. Stack them on top of each other, so the one with the base rind is on the bottom.
Wrap the cheese tower in the sheets of pizza dough until they are evenly covered. Place the wrapped cheese in an oven dish and add the potatoes around it, and drizzle them with olive oil and season with salt, pepper, and mixed herbs.
Bake at 140°C for 1 hour. Once baked, cut the pastry top off the tower and garnish with a little chopped parsley and black pepper.
Enjoy by dipping the potatoes into the cheese fondue.