With the chosen theme of “cheese”, I had too many ideas! It was time to narrow down my recipe for all you lovely bakers to something delectable, and if possible, a little fun. This past April I caught an episode of one of my favorite Italian cooking shows, La Prova del Cuoco. The guest cook on the show put together a cheesy pull-apart bread. I couldn’t stop thinking about the bread and tried out the recipe immediately.
August was an amazing baking month based on Summer Fruits. We had over 30 incredible links. Thank you to all of you for baking with us!
Our #TwelveLoaves theme for the month of September is:
Cheese!
Bake a bread, yeast or quick bread, loaf or individual, filled, stuffed, studded or topped with your favorite cheese. It’s your bread…we want you to have fun with the idea!
Inspiration for your baking idea:
Pizza
Focaccia
Popovers
Scones
Waffles or pancakes
Bread sticks
Muffins
Barb made incredible Cheese and Herb Waffles BLT.
Jamie baked this fabulous Cheese and Bacon Focaccia. 🙂
Here’s all you have to do:
1. Please make sure that your Bread is inspired by this month's theme; this is obligatory if you would like your link to be included!
2. Have your #TwelveLoaves bread that you baked this September, 2012 posted on your blog by September 30, 2012.
3. When you post your #TwelveLoaves bread on your blog, make sure that you mention the #TwelveLoaves challenge in your post and include links to this month's leaders: Cake Duchess, Creative Culinary and Lifesafeast.
4. Please link your post to the linky tool at the bottom of my blog. It must be a bread baked to the #TwelveLoaves theme.
I pin every bread to our very delicious #TwelveLoaves Pinterest board. Look how incredible it is!!
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It’s been a pleasure #BreakingBread with you since I launched this bread baking group idea in May. Check out what we have been busy baking!
May theme: Focaccia
June theme: Corn Rolls
July theme: Challah
August theme: Summer Fruit
I've submitted this yummy bread to Susan at Wild Yeast Blog.
Ingredients:
250 ml (1 cup) warm water (about 110 degrees)
2 1/2 teaspoons (1 envelope) active dry yeast
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
500 grams (4 1/2 cups) all-purpose flour
1 egg
3 teaspoons salt
150 grams (1 cup) Gouda, cut in chunks (or your favorite cheese)
150 grams (1 cup) sliced salami (omit if you’d like it meat-free)
Directions:
In a small bowl, add the water and sprinkle the yeast on top of the
water. Add 3 tablespoons of the oil and whisk together. Set aside.
In large mixing bowl, add the flour and 3 teaspoons of salt; whisk together or mix together on low speed in your mixer. Whisk the egg into the yeast mixture.
Pour the yeast mixture into the bowl of a stand mixer. Add about half of the flour mixture. Stir with a rubber spatula until it is combined. Attach the dough hook to your mixer and add the remaining flour. Mix on low speed for about three minutes or until the dough comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
Form the dough into a ball and place into an oiled bowl (when I put the dough in the bowl I swish the dough around the bottom of the bowl and then flip it over so all of the dough is covered in a light film of oil). Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise at room temperature until doubled in size (about 1-1 1/2 hours).
Turn dough out onto a well-floured counter and roll the dough into a 20-by-12-inch rectangle, making sure it doesn’t stick to the counter. Divide it into two strips. Brush one side of the first strip with olive oil.
Brush the top portion of the first strip with olive oil.
Add your filling with about 2 inches space between each portion along the strip. Fold over the bottom half onto the top oiled half and press down gently.
Fold over the bottom half onto the top oiled half and press down gently.
Brush the folded dough with a little olive oil. With a pizza cutter or knife slice your individual filled pockets squares.Take care to not slice the filling. You can sort of feel the cheese and slice a bit away from it.
Stack your pockets in a parchment lined loaf pan. (I ended up with some extra cheese pockets and baked them individually while baking the loaf on a cookie sheet. They were like mini calzones. You may end up with not enough sections. You could sort of shake the pan you could wiggle the pan a little so that the dough parts fill the pan. Don’t worry too much about that as they will fill up more as it rises again and then bakes). Loosely cover the pan with plastic wrap and set it aside to rise again for 30 to 45 more minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Brush on an egg wash and bake at 350 for about 40 minutes. Transfer the loaf to a wire rack and let it cool for a few minutes before pulling out the bread with the parchment paper. Best enjoyed as we did-hot out of the oven! Who had the patience to wait for this delicious bread?;)
Buon Appetito! Happy Baking!!
xo
Lora
Bunkycooks says
Oh, my. I can literally smell this bread baking! Hot, homemade yeast bread with cheese (and meat). I am thinking about all of the possibilities and options for making this bread. If I find the time this month, I will join in. If not, I will come and visit you. 😉
Stephanie @ Girl Versus Dough says
This cheesy pull apart bread looks DIVINE. Definitely going to have to participate this month because, let's be honest, who can resist a bread with cheese in it? No one. 🙂
Emily says
Yes, this look delicious. Great to bring on a picnic or potluck. I can imagine the smell in my apartment and wish it were real.
Baker Street says
A cheesy pull apart bread! YUM! That totally sounds like my kinda loaf! Too many ideas running in my head! I better get baking. 🙂
Lisa says
I have been dying to make a pull-apart bread. Yours looks fantastic..I can only imagine how gooey it is when you pull off a slice!
Paula-bellalimento says
Quanto mi piace!
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
What a magnificent loaf, I love the cheesy filling!
Jamie says
Oooh I love this! We had the same idea but oh I am so loving yours even more. What gorgeous texture. I have to try this recipe. Great theme and I will be baking another bread and cheesy thing!
Brian @ A Thought For Food says
I just sliced into some cheese bread that I got from a local bakery... but it doesn't look nearly as good as this.
Winnie says
What a gorgeous pull-apart bread!!
I can almost smell it via the screen
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking says
I have so many bread recipes using cheese but the most viewed one is a pull-apart bread http://www.roxanashomebaking.com/pull-apart-cheesy-herb-bread/
I'll definitely bake something for this month challenge. I love cheese and bread!
Julia says
This looks great! I love this idea. I have a house full of guests coming over in the near future and this would make a lovely appetizer for them.
Kate | Food Babbles says
Once again, I lovely loaf! I adore this month's theme since I am a HUGE lover of cheese! Now I need to get my wheels turning. I love what everyone has created already. And I've never done a pull apart loaf before or foccacia so I may have to try my hand at a version of your or Jamie's loaves. Decisions! Decisions!
Erin @ Dinners, Dishes and Desserts says
I love homemade bread, this pull apart version sounds so good!
Pretend Chef says
I bet this smells so good baking. This is a recipe my family would love. Looks so delicious!
Jennie @themessybakerblog says
Oh, yum! This bread is just oozing delicious cheese- I love it!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
What a brilliant bread!
Ilke says
That looks really fun, both making and eating it! Sounds like a great group 🙂
www.you-made-that.com says
Fun idea for bread, it looks so pretty in the pan and so golden in color and I bet it taste great too.
Pacheco Patty says
Love this cheesy pull apart bread technique and have been wanting to try making a bread similar to your lovely creation myself-thanks for sharing and congrats on the #TwelveLoaves!
Swathi Iyer says
Beautiful pull apart bread Lora. I need to make one. Thanks for sharing.
The KitchenMaid says
Whoops, this means I totally missed the deadline for the August #TwelveLoaves. How did that happen!?
LOVE the look of this - and I went to an amazing breadmaking class in the weekend so am feeling super-inspired at the moment. Plus, we have a fridge full of cheese. It's fate!
Jenny @ BAKE says
what a brilliant theme! and this loaf looks incredible!
Helene Dsouza says
Omg it looks so wonderful, I d love to pull it and pop it all into my mouth. XD Love the idea and I got to try this for myself! thanks for sharing your recipe. 😉
Carolyn says
Wow, Lora...I am literally speechless, that looks amazing!
simple baking says
wow this looks awesome!
Now I cant wait to bake mine 😀
Lizzy Do says
YUM! I can't wait to make a cheesy bread!
Lisa {Authentic Suburban Gourmet } says
OMG - who doesn't love a good cheesy bread! The idea of pull apart bread is just perfect. Nicely done!!
Katie says
This looks to die for and oh-so-yummy!
Paula @ Vintage Kitchen says
This is a great idea for pull apart. It came out wonderful Lora, very spongy! Can´t wait to bake this month.
Paula says
This is gorgeous! The gouda and salami is a wonderful surprise.
shelley c. says
Oh my goodness, I LOVE a good pullapart bread and this one looks AMAZING. I can just imagine the ooey gooey deliciousness 🙂
Holly @ abakershouse.com says
Your cheesy bread looks wonderful and I appreciate the step by step photos that will guide me along when I make this at home. Thanks for hosting, I enjoyed baking along this month!
Lorraine Joy Alegria-Vizcarra says
The bread looks wonderful.
kitchen flavours says
Wow, your bread looks amazing! Looks really soft and delicious!
I've linked up a lovely cornbread! Thanks for hosting! Have a nice day!
Renee Goerger says
This is STUNNING! I wish I could have smelled this baking. Oh wait...I can...once I bake it myself! Thanks for the recipe and the instructions!
Anonymous says
It looks like salt is entered twice and the egg is missing from the ingredients list. Easy enough to figure out. Looks wonderful.
Savoring Italy says
Thank you:)I adjusted that. Enjoy the recipe and hope you link up your creation;)
Junglefrog says
I've always wondered how those pull apart breads are being made and so thank you for those step by step photos! Being a cheese addict I was really happy with the theme for this month!
Cardamom Hills says
I tried theseeeee.....it was really easy to make and so tasty...thanks for posting.
Savoring Italy says
fantastic!:)Link it up if you posted the recipe. Thanks for trying the bread:)
lena says
it's a gorgeous loaf and i really feel like pulling a slice out of the loaf! happy belated birthday to you, too !
kitchen flavours says
I've just linked one more! Thanks for hosting!
Savoring Italy says
I love both the breads. This apple pizza has me hungry:)Thank you:)
Mich - Piece of Cake says
Hi! This is my first time taking part in your blog hop. I love your cheesy pull apart bread, it is making my mouth water and I wish I could grab a slice off the screen!
Lora CakeDuchess says
Thank you and really love your bread, Mich:)
lena says
hi lora, managed to make one for the theme this month:)
Lora CakeDuchess says
Those Brazilian Quick Rolls are fantastic, Lena:)thank you!!
Savoring Italy says
Thanks to all that baked together this month so far. Wow! Love all the links:)