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I am not a good baker, but once in while, when I chance upon great baking recipes, I would bookmark them and attempt the recipes at home.
So, when I saw this amazing pull apart garlic bread on Pinterest (please follow me) a few weeks ago, I immediately saved it to one of my boards.
I love garlic bread, especially those warm-off-the-oven, garlicky, buttery, aromatic pull apart garlic bread that I can just easily tear off and munch away.
While I like the regular loaf of garlic bread, sometimes it’s kind of a hassle as I need to slice the garlic bread before eating.
So the pull apart garlic bread works just great for me, as I can just tear it off and eat the bread whenever I like.
I gathered the ingredients and spent some time in the kitchen baking this wonderful pull apart garlic bread. The recipe is adapted from Carmel Moments but I reduced the ingredients into half.
I wanted to make sure that I don’t waste the ingredients in case I fail. The recipe is rather easy and straight forward to follow and fool proof.
A couple of hours in the kitchen and I had the beautiful bread in the kitchen!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 414 calories per serving.
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Pull Apart Garlic Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups bread flour
Topping:
- 4 tablespoons butter (melted)
- 1 pinch salt
- some finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
- 2 cloves garlic (finely minced)
Instructions
- Add warm water to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with dough hook. Sprinkle sugar and yeast into the water. Let stand 5-10 minutes until foamy. Mix in butter, milk, salt and stir in the flour gradually. Knead for 7-10 minutes. Dough should stick to the bottom of the bowl but clears sides. Divide dough into 2 equal portions.
- In a small bowl, combine the butter, salt, parsley leaves, and garlic. Cut dough into small round pieces and dip into the butter mixture. Arrange the dough balls into two mini loaf pan or one regular loaf pan. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Reserve the leftover butter mixture.
- Bake at 350°F (176°C) for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Baste the butter mixture on the pull-apart garlic bread after they are out of the oven.
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
Is this a dough you could make a head of time and freeze?
I have never tried freezing the dough.
I made these last night and they turned out like little puffs of perfection! I went one step further and added some garlic/butter mixture into the dough to make it more garlic-eeee :D Thank you for this recipe! Its a keeper!
Awesome sounds so yummy!
I am making these for a Thanksgiving dinner and I was wondering if I go with a larger batch and put in a larger pan do I need more baking time causing them to be a lower temp? And I love the Christmas tree idea, any suggestions how to go about that? The are going to be perfect! Thanks for sharing your recipe
Hi Laura, I think the same temperature would work. Once they turn golden brown the inside should be cooked through. The Xmas tree idea is great, I have yet to try out. Happy Thanksgiving.
I made these for dinner tonight and we absolutely LOVED them. This will now be my “go to” recipe for garlic rolls! The only thing that I did differently was I made the dough in my bread machine and then made the balls and dunked in the butter mixture and let set for about 30 minutes before baking. So incredibly easy to make and absolutely delicious!
Granted, I am not particularly comfortable working with yeast, though I bake all the time. These looked so easy however that I thought I could do this. I have made them three times and each time they did not rise much. I checked my water temp, used fresh quick rise yeast, etc. They taste great, but they are not tender. I also did not let them knead as long, as it seemed to make them tougher. Also did not bake 30 minutes, as that would be too long. They’re were pretty brown at 25 minutes.
Hi Joan, I know what you mean. The first time I made it I failed. But somehow the second time it worked…for the baking, different oven is different mine took 30 minutes but if yours were brown in 25 minutes, you can take it out sooner.
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Looks delicious, but I bake so rarely that I don’t own a stand mixer.
Warm the water to 27C, add yeast and sugar into large mixing bowl. Stir and rest about 10 mins until foamy. Then add the rest of the ingredients. Using a spatula mix it up until roughly incorporated. Then use your hand to knead it a couple of minutes in the bowl (at this stage you can still add more flour if too wet, or more water if too dry). Then transfer onto floured surface and continue kneading until dough feels soft and elastic (when you poke your finger on the dough ball the indent caused will fill back). Then transfer back onto an oiled bowl and cover with cling wrap to rise.
do you think there would be enough of these to make a christmas tree to have at a christmas family dinner
Yes I think so…good idea. Perhaps you can double the recipe to make a big Christmas tree. :)
Greetings from Norway. I made these yesterday and they taste so delicious!! I think I can easily get addicted:) Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for trying the pull-apart garlic bread recipe! :)
Making it now. Something’s not right. Dough was super hard. It almost broke my mixer! I had to need it by hand. The balls were hard to make. It’s rising now not sure now it will turn out :-( what am I doing wrong?
Once the dough becomes one, you should stop the mixer straight away to avoid it breaking, as you were speaking of. With the kneading, when a recipe asks you to knead, it always means by hand. Electric mixers can’t do it, because they don’t aerate it like doing by hand can. Aerating the dough also helps to make the dough rise.