Cheesy Garlic Pull Apart Christmas Tree
This Cheesy Christmas Tree Bread is full of butter, garlic, and is the perfect pull apart bread with melty cheese. This is a fun Christmas appetizer for any holiday event.
📖 Recipe
Cheesy Garlic Pull Apart Christmas Tree
This Cheesy Christmas Tree Bread is full of butter, garlic, and is the perfect pull apart bread with melty cheese. This is a fun Christmas appetizer for any holiday event.
Ingredients
Instructions
Make the Dough
- Combine ¼ cup warmed milk with yeast and sugar. Set aside until foamy.
- In a large bowl (I use my stand mixer) combine remaining ingredients, except milk.
- Add in milk and yeast mixture and ¾ cups milk. Mix together, adding in remaining milk if needed.
- Knead mixture for 7-10 minutes. Shape into a ball, place back into bowl, and let rise for an hour, until doubled.
- Make the Cheesy Tree
- Place dough onto counter and divide into 30 sections (roughly 1 oz each).
- Flatten each dough piece out and place one quarter piece of a mozzarella stick in the middle. Gently shape into a round ball.
- Take each ball and arrange into a tree shape. I did 5 layers in a triangle shape. Placed one ball on the very top for the star (you can also use a cookie cutter to make a star shape) and one ball at the bottom for the trunk. Cover and let rise for about another hour.
- Combine butter and garlic and brush onto tree. Top with shredded mozzarella and dried parsley.
- Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
- Serve with marinara sauce and enjoy!
Another article used this picture for "top holiday treat ideas" or something and didn't even have the recipe or link to it so I went on an insane search to find this. So glad I did. A little iffy about the dough (I have texture issues and usually use premade dough) but I'm so excited I'll give it a try.
Please let me know how they turn out for you!
This recipe was delicious! Didn't make a tree 😉 but it was all eaten up!