Parmesan Garlic Butter Bread Spread

I LOVE gar­lic bread! Any­one else with me on that?! My mom and I have been known to make some pretty mean gar­lic bread, but the way we usu­ally do it is a bit time con­sum­ing. For our party this week­end, I wanted some­thing faster and eas­ier. So, I made a parme­san gar­lic but­ter that could just be spread right on the bread & baked. And, it was SO good! While pick­ing up some items at Wal­mart (you can see my shop­ping expe­ri­ence here on Google+) for our lit­tle get-together, I found some Bake at Home Ecce Panis bread. It was per­fect for a quick, yet fresh-baked taste–and for putting my gar­lic but­ter spread on!

Parme­san Gar­lic But­ter Spread

Ingre­di­ents:

- 2 sticks soft­ened butter

- ¼ C shred­ded parmesan

- 1 TBS minced garlic

- 2 tsp grated parmesan

If you like your gar­lic bread more plain, stop there. If you like it a bit more savory, then add 2 sprigs fresh rose­mary (or dried if you don’t have fresh) & a dash of Ital­ian sea­son­ing. I made it plain, then sep­a­rated the recipe in half and added the herbs to one half.

You can whip this up in no time! And, the best part is that you can just keep the extras in the fridge for future gar­lic bread mak­ing endeav­ors! Basi­cally, you just need to com­bine all the ingre­di­ents! I started with the but­ter in a dish and added in the gar­lic + the vari­eties of Parme­san cheese. Because that kids don’t like the herbs on their gar­lic bread, I made the whole batch plain. Then, I took out about half & added the fresh rose­mary (from our gar­den) & Ital­ian sea­son­ing.It barely even took 5 min­utes to make and we ended up with two bowls of super yummy Parme­san gar­lic but­ter bread spread (the extras of which are now hap­pily resid­ing in the fridge)! The process of using it on the bread was sim­ple. First, I baked the bread accord­ing to the pack­age direc­tions. It’s so nice that the Ecce Panis bread I found was bake at home, but was ready in less than 10 minutes!

Once that was baked, I cut both loaves in half (ver­ti­cally). Then, I slathered them up with the gar­lic but­ter spreads–two halves with the sea­soned ver­sion and two halves with the plain. Then, I baked it  for a few more min­utes until every­thing started bub­bling & browning.

So good!!

What’s your favorite bread spread?

For more ideas and/or bread options, check out:

• http://www.eccepanis.com/
• http://www.facebook.com/Pep­peridge­Farm

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