This garlicy, buttery, cheesy deliciousness is one of our all time favorite foods to enjoy on the weekends. We pull out a favorite movie, or rent one from redbox and then make this cheesy bread. It is perfection. Seriously. We’ve used a combination of olive oil and Land O’ Lakes melted butter.
In my personal opinion the dough makes all the difference. I hate when I eat a pizza that tastes more like bread. It should taste like light, airy, crisp on the edges and bottom pizza dough.
Every other pizza dough that we’ve tried has turned out pretty good, but it’s clearly homemade and never puffs all bubbly like a Pizzeria. This recipe, totally did the bubbly thing. I mean, check out that monster right there! I love it. I truly do.
And then you cut into it. This whole entire pan was devoured less than 3 seconds after this photo. Literally. The family heard the click and dove right in. Oh my cheesy deliciousness. That is all. Just make this.
Can You Use Regular Yeast Instead of Instant Yeast?
Active dry yeast and instant yeast can generally be used interchangeably, in equal amounts.
Active dry yeast may take longer to rise, so you may need to add 15-20 minutes to your rise time.
How Do You Freeze Bread Dough?
Prepare bread dough as per recipe.
Let rise one time, and then divide into desired portions.
Wrap loosely in plastic and place in a freezer safe container.
Or, place on baking sheet in freezer for 1-2 hours, or until frozen.
Transfer to heavy duty freezer bags.
Can Cheesy Bread Sticks Be Reheated?
Wrap cheese sticks in foil, tenting the top a little so it doesn’t stick to the cheese.
Place in 350 degree oven for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted and bread stick is warm.
Garlic Cheese Bread
Garlic Cheesy Bread
Description
Ingredients
The Dough
- 5 1/4 cups flour, lukewarm
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons instant yeast
- 1/2 Tablespoon salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 nickle sized drops of soy lecithin
- 2 cups warm water
Cheese Bread
- 4 Tablespoons butter, unsalted
- 1 1/2-2 Teaspoons Johnny's Garlic Seasoning
- 4 cups mozzarella, shredded cheese
Instructions
For the Dough
- In the bowl of your standing mixer, fitted with the dough hook attachment, mix the yeast, salt, sugar, and flour.
- Stop the mixer and add the soy lecithin, then mix again. Keeping the mixer running add the water and mix until smooth.
- Transfer dough to large bowl. Cover (not airtight), and allow to rest at room temperature until dough rises, about 15 minutes.
For the Cheese Bread
- Heat the oven to 500 degrees.
- Place the cast iron pizza pan or pizza stone (unless you are using a metal pizza pan) in the oven to heat up.
- Melt the butter in a small dish.
- Add the garlic salt and stir to combine.
- Roll out the pizza dough on a floured work surface (we actually do the ol' toss method which keeps our dough nice and airy)
- Top with cheese and slide the dough carefully onto the hot pizza pan and place right back in the oven.
- Bake for 5-10 minutes or until hot and bubbly then brush with the garlic butter mixture
Notes
Nutrition
Recommended Products
*The author received product samples and a gift package from Land O’Lakes, including a serving bowl, measuring spoons, butter dish and skillet, for recipe development and review purposes. All opinions are my own.
Teresa Yeh
I love s’mores cookies! Or most any savory foods that start with a base of garlic/onion sauteed in olive oil + butter.
Elizabeth Foster
Hmmm… that’s tricky. They say anything with butter is better. Some of my favorite recipes with butter…. Brioche, croissants/Danishes, sugar or chocolate chip cookies, shortbread, French toast or pancakes with the yummy center where the butter melts and settles. Nom!
Christopher Sorel
dark chocolate chip cookies
Ashley R
I just made homemade salted caramel sauce the other day. You cook it until it’s a dark amber color, just before it would burn. It has a rich and buttery flavor, best homemade caramel I’ve ever had. Yum!
Stephanie Krinke
Favorite recipe that uses butter? That’s tough, let’s see anything that uses butter. I am that person who could probably eat butter straight from the wrapper.
Butter cookies.
Natalie J Vandenberghe
My favorite recipe that uses butter is cookies! I use a cup of butter in my PB White Chocolate Chip cookies. I also use lots of butter in my Danish Pastry recipe. We use butter every day and I love Land O’ Lakes. Thanks for the giveaway!
Tracy
By far, six minute microwave caramels!!!! Unbelievable!!
Jeffrey
Brown butter chocolate chip cookies, they’re my new love! If you haven’t browned butter before I highly recommend it. The nutty smell and flavor is well worth the extra step.
Kristi S
I love butter in general! My favorite would be butter on toast. Sweet and Simple :).
Melissa Hungria
I’m going to attempt to make this recipe gluten free. So, my favorite recipe using butter is cranberry scones.
Katy
Monkey Bread 🙂
Liz
I love making bread! I am looking forward to trying this recipie!
Carolsue
That’s a tough one. I guess it would be Sugar Cookies.
Theda
I really like the Artisan Bread in 5 minutes recipe and cookbook too. I agree…the longer the dough sits the better it tastes!
Shanda S.
Pound Cake 🙂
shrish231 (at) gmail (dot) com
Camille (SixSistersStuff)
These look amazing! And my favorite butter recipe?! That is like asking me to pick my favorite child! I would have to say my mom’s sugar cookies. 🙂
Elena Vo
Indian Butter Chicken 🙂 My friend Sateesh makes it for me now and then. Soooo good!
Carolyn G
definitely mashed potatoes
Kay
Cheesy bread sounds great! Just might have to make it for Easter!
A favorite recipe with butter? How can I just pick one? Well, I do love a good pound cake! Hard to beat – especially fresh from the oven!
Megan Parr
OH WAIT! I was just reading through a recipe that calls for “browned butter” and I remembered something I haven’t made in YEARS, but that I LOVE LOVE LOVE! Angel hair pasta topped with browned butter and grated Mizithra cheese. So simple, and so delicious!
Sweet Basil
We love that pasta!!! It’s been forever though.
Megan Parr
Hmmmm….favorite recipe using butter? I don’t know that it’s my favorite, but I think I’m going to have to say alfredo because butter is pretty key. Garlic cooked in the butter. Yep!
Mary Beth Elderton
Almost everything I cook has butter! Oneof my favorites is roasted veggies with butter and Parmesan.
Vivian Sun
White chocolate macadamia nut cookies!
D Schmidt
My favorite is all butter shortbread.
Erin
I love butter on hot out of the oven rolls.
Jaime
I love to make mini chicken Alfredo, you out the Alfredo with chicken inside a jumbo shell
Sweet Basil
that’s an amazing idea! Do not let me forget to try it!
Katie B
I can’t pick one dish with butter, I add butter to everything, from pasta to muffins, but I’m a sucker for fresh baked bread that’s still warm and I slather copious amounts of butter on it. YUM!
Erica Best
i love pound cake
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life
That bread looks heavenly!!! I love to make cookies and frosting with butter!! The more the merrier 🙂
Dezi A
I love making cookies with real butter instead of margarine. 🙂
Realia M
i love making bananas with buttery caramel sauce
Sweet Basil
ohhhh, that sounds wonderful!
Vera K
Shrimp and linguini in garlic and butter sauce.
Bee
YUM. I wish I’d seen this yesterday, I’d have made it to go with last night’s dinner!
Favorite butter recipe is hands-down my great aunt’s shortbread. Takes a pound of it; don’t even care.
Ashlee
Ummm…That’s a tough one. Honey butter, or basically any cookie.
Tiffany Moody
Talk about a tough call! I would have to say anything related to bread and cookies 🙂
Macey W
We made some brown butter linguine for How Sweet It Is a few weeks ago that was fabulous!
https://www.howsweeteats.com/2012/02/brown-butter-parmesan-chicken-linguine/
Mandy’s Recipe Box
Your potato rolls are amazing!
Barbara @ Barbara Bakes
I’m not sure I could have waited for you to finish taking pictures. Love the smell of bread baking.
Sweet Basil
Oh, isn’t it just the best? And trust me, Cade especially kept asking if I could just make another to photograph. haha
Kate
My favorite would be homemade alfredo sauce!
Jessica F
french toast is my favorite recipe with butter
Sweet Basil
loooove that, and a little powdered sugar actually
Jenn
It is a tough call regarding butter – but probably Monkey Bread. Insanely simple yet just as insanely addicting. However, I suspect that when I give this a try, your bread sounds fabulous. Already planning on making it to enjoy next weekend while I watch the season premiere of Doctor Who (my other addiction besides monkey bread).
Sascha`
Picking one favorite recipe using butter is hard…but I would have to say banana bread! I know the trend now is to sub applesauce, but nothing gives homemade banana bread quite the same consistency as butter!!
Tristen
Oh yumm-o. I’ve been looking for a better pizza crust recipe. I’ll have to try this one for sure. Mine never turns out quite right. We love anything cheesy over here. As for the butter, making marshmallow popcorn with it is one of my favs.
Amy Reed
I love anything with butter 🙂 My favorite food with butter would have to be warm crunchy in the middle, soft in the middle garlic bread with homemade french bread and melted garlic butter. Your recipe looks fantastic – I added items to my grocery list so I can make it over the weekend!
Deb
Cookies…and buttercream 🙂
Sweet Basil
mmmmm, sounds delicious to me!
dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
OH MY goodness. This…it’s heaven on a plate, and I’m not sharing…
Sweet Basil
oh, don’t! I kinda cringed every time someone grabbed a really cheesy slice. haha
Aimee @ ShugarySweets
Looks awesome Carrian. I make something quite similar but I use crescent rolls, LOL. Love this homemade version 🙂
Sweet Basil
oh my goodness! What a fantastic idea!!
april
i love making all things using butter. : )
Sweet Basil
haha, amen!
Amanda
Warm, delicious rolls covered in butter!!
Sweet Basil
oh, rolls are my favorite!
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
OMG this looks soooooooooooo delicious! I want want want this nowwwww!
Sweet Basil
haha, I wish I could eat it right now. Holy long day!
Courtney
Garlic Bread and cookies! Not together of course 🙂
Sweet Basil
haha, agreed, not together!
Melissa
Rolls. Hands down. Warm, buttery, delicious rolls. I could eat those every day for rest of my life and die a very happy woman!
Sweet Basil
yeah, buddy!!! And even better if we could eat them together! Miss you!!
Natalie S
Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Auburn Garner
I love butter on hot, homemade rolls! Especially your potato roll recipe! Yum!
Sweet Basil
woohoo!!! Extra points to you if I could give them!
Brittany
Oh my goodness I’m drooling over that cheesy bread and that giveaway!!
Sweet Basil
Thanks, Brittany. It’s definitely all of my favorites.
Meredith
I love homemade waffles doused in butter. Had some this morning in fact 🙂
Sweet Basil
mmmm, I haven’t had a good waffle in far too long!
Teri Pastorino
i just plain old love butter, bread is nothing more than a vehicle for butter
we eat real butter in our house, i love the taste of it in buttercream icing, butter in sugar cookies, and nothing beats a good piece of toast with butter and jam
Sweet Basil
AMEN!
Cathy
So yummy! I love using butter for brownies!
Sweet Basil
OH MY GOODNESS!! Brownies sound so good right now and we have’t even had dinner!
meredith
I like making a dill bread!
Sweet Basil
Meredith, that sounds wonderful. I’ve never had dill bread before, but I want to now!
Christina
Definitely trying your recipe for our pizza night on Friday! Favorite food with butter would have to be browned butter brownies! Mmmm now I want some brownies and cheesy garlic bread 🙂
Sweet Basil
haha me too! Can’t wait to hear what you think!
Micky
I love making cobbler!
Rachael {Simply Fresh Cooking}
Your cheesy bread looks killer!!
Well. let’s see… I haven’t had sugar in a while, so the recipe that I’d die for right now is my Peanut Butter Cookies. Ahhhhh. 🙂
Sweet Basil
I am such a sucker for peanut butter cookies.
Annie @ Annie’s Noms
Oh my gosh this looks simply delightful!! I’m now sat at my computer screen staring and hoping that by some miracle it will come out of my screen so I can eat it right now!! Pinned and making very soon! 🙂
Kathy
This looks amazing!!!
Adrea Tidwell
oops, was too busy being so excited about this recipe and giveaway that I didn’t even read directions for posting! I love cookies with real butter!
Sweet Basil
haha, it happens to all of us!
Adrea Tidwell
Can’t wait to try this! Will have to figure out a gluten free version for my husband though!
Becky B
Biscuits smothered in butter and honey- can’t live without it!
rachel
My favorite recipe with butter is scones.
aimee @ like mother like daughter
cookies are my favorite. i really want to try some with browned butter!
these bread sticks look to die for!
Hannah @ CleanEatingVeggieGirl
This bread looks amazing!! I definitely would not be able to say no to this! 😉
Amy L
Hot Air-Popped, Buttered Popcorn is my favorite “recipe” using butter. It may be simple, but you can really taste the butter!
Sweet Basil
Forgot to add my favorite recipe that uses butter–a ton of it in fact: salted caramel butter bars. On the blog. Mmm…
Sweet Basil
You seriously want to kill me with your recipes. I could eat an entire pan of this bread!
Margot C
I like to make a classic butter cream frosting with the real stuff (butter)
Heather Paulding
Good ol’ fashion pound cake!
Andrea D.
I love chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies made with butter.
Tamara B.
Biscuits & gravy
Chelsea
That bread makes me salivate in a bad way. Making it tonight! Bread and butter combos are by far the most superior!
Sandy
Biscuits with butter and honey
Fibia
I love scones – lots of butter.
Carla @ Carlas Confections
Im in heaven just looking at this bread… I need to make this soon! YUM!
Rachel Cooks
HOLY COW THIS LOOKS GOOD!
PS: Don’t enter me in the giveaway 🙂
katrina mccoy
Best Butter Recipe is – Brown BUTTER Cornbread !
Thx for the chance at the giveaway!
Sweet Basil
oh, heck yes!
Mindy
Pick ONE recipe with butter?! Good lord. I’m goin’ with Cheese Ravioli with Browned Butter. Simple and divine.
Sweet Basil
dude, that sounds amazing!
Mindy
I love me some cheesy bread! Awesome giveaway. Thanks for a shot at the title. 🙂
Cindy Brickley
Shrimp Scampi and Shortbread
Dianne Shaw
I like to make risotto using butter.
Heather | Heather Likes Food
This bread looks awesome! I could eat cheesy bread all day. I think one of my favorite buttery recipes is Dutch Babies, smothered with more butter, lemon juice, and powdered sugar!
Sweet Basil
We love it that way too!
Kelly D
I like cooking shrimp & pasta with butter.
Kathy Dirks
Cannot wait to try this bread! It is sure to be a family-pleaser 🙂
Meagan @ A Zesty Bite
OH my I want this like RIGHT NOW!
Sweet Basil
me too actually!
Kelly
I think I could devour that entire pan, yum!!
Shelly
My favorite recipe using butter is definitely peanut butter cookies!
Kristy @ Sweet Treats & More
I want this bread!
Sweet Basil
well, you can have it if you’ll bring me some.
Leslie Moore
So many favorite recipes that use butter, I can’t decide! This recipe for cheesy bread looks awesome! I am excited to try it. My hubby (and I…shhhh) is a bread lover! He will love this recipe and I can’t wait to make it for him. Thanks for the recipe and the awesome giveaway.
Sweet Basil
you’re welcome! Good luck!
Alaina @ Fabtastic Eats
ahhh my weakness!
Tieghan
OMG!!! This look so good! I want to make this now!
Christina
My fave butter-laden recipe has to be scones! Real, hearty, fluffy fruity scones. I like trying to make them healthier, but when it comes down to it, they’re so much better with butter 🙂
Maria Tadic
Favorite way to have butter… I love finishing sauces with about 1 tbsp of butter. It adds a nice richness to the entire dish!
Maria Tadic
I love recipes that re-make take out favorites! You know exactly what goes in it. I can’t wait to try this recipe. I just picked up a big ball of fresh mozzarella that’s marinated in pesto… sounds like it’d be delicious melted over a nice pizza like crust!
Sweet Basil
are you kidding me?! I want that mozzarella!!!!