Brie Cheese Garlic Bread
Want to take your garlic bread up a notch? Add brie cheese to it! This homemade garlic bread is loaded with crispy melted cheese and a compound butter that is rich and garlicy making it restaurant worthy!
Once you start making garlic bread homemade, you will never go back to store bought. This one has a compound butter mixture which has a secret ingredient: brie cheese. Making it rich and decadent and balancing out those garlic flavors. Soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside- you will have this recipe on repeat! It is perfect served along side pasta, salad, meat, soup or on it’s own as an appetizer.
Ingredients for cheesy garlic Bread
Brie cheese, garlic and bread is the ultimate dream team! As a kid growing up in an Italian household, garlic bread was served alongside most dinners. It is delicious served alongside pasta, steak, stew, salads or even on it’s own. To take it to the next level, try adding brie cheese into the garlic butter mixture. It really adds so much flavor!
This cheesy garlic bread will be devoured within minutes and its so simple to throw together with only a few ingredients.
Find the ingredients below so you can make this garlic bread:
Italian bread loaf
Brie cheese
Garlic
Butter
Mozzarella cheese
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
Fresh parsley
How to take it up a notch:
After you make your brie cheese garlic bread consider taking it up another notch up adding any of the following on top:
pesto
truffle oil or fresh truffle
chili flakes or chili oil- make it SPICY!
more garlic- consider adding some crushed up fresh garlic to the garlic butter mixture if you are a garlic lover like me
Or consider adding dipping sauces for your garlic bread like ranch, Caesar or a marinara! Everyone loves something to dip their bread in!
SHOP THE REICPE
Quality of brie cheese matters!
I always recommend using a brie cheese that is French- brie cheese originated in France so if it is French you know it’s creamy, has notes of mushroom and will melt really well! When melted, the cheaper brie cheeses can often pool with oil which means they aren’t the best quality and stuffed with fillers & additives. When making any recipe that requires you to bake the brie, spend a little bit more on the cheese to make sure it’s a quality one.
My favorite brands include:
Ile de France Brie Cheese
President Brie Cheese
Marin French Brie Cheese
Sweet Grass Dairy Brie Cheese
Supreme Brie Cheese
Brie Cheese Garlic Bread
Ingredients
- 1 loaf of Italian or French bread (approx. 12" long cut in half)
- 8 oz brie cheese wheel
- 8 oz softened butter
- 1-2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
- 1 garlic bulb
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Salt & pepper
- 2 tsp finely chopped parsley
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 375 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cut your garlic bulb in half and place it in tin foil. Add olive oil on top of the garlic and some salt and pepper. Wrap it up in the foil and put this on a baking sheet. Roast your garlic for 40 - 45 minutes. Once this is done roasting let it cool down for at least 5 minutes.
- While your garlic roasts, take the rind off your brie cheese wheel using this slicing tool or a knife. Then chop your brie cheese into cubes and grate your mozzarella cheese.
- Add your softened butter, brie cheese chunks, roasted garlic (squeeze it out of the bulb into the mixture), salt & pepper and 1 tsp of parsley to a food processor or a blender and blend until smooth. This will create your compound butter mixture.
- Put your bread halves on a baking sheet and spread on your compound butter mixture on them.
- Bake for 10 minutes to melt this onto the bread and then take out of the oven and top with mozzarella cheese.
- Put the loaves back in the oven to bake until crispy and cheese has melted for about 5- 10 more minutes on broil.
- When cheese has melted and looks crispy remove from oven, add on the rest of your parsley, chop the bread in slices and serve warm!
Notes
If you are in a time crunch, alternatively to the roasted garlic, you can use fresh garlic- I would use 4 cloves of freshly minced garlic if you were to substitute
Everything gets added to a food processor or blender to make that rich garlicky compound butter mixture.
Spread that compound butter onto a French or Italian loaf of bread
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