Gluten Free Garlic Butter Pizza Pull-apart French Bread!

The photos really don’t do this beautiful appetizer justice! This is a LARGE (football sized) loaf of French bread stuffed to perfection with lots of melted garlic butter, sauce pepperoni & cheese.

This is one of those you wont believe its gluten free recipes! It is the perfect thing to throw together to eat while watching football on a Sunday! If you use my French bread recipe you'll end up with a LARGE loaf of bread with a beautiful crust and soft fluffy interior. The bread recipe itself is gluten, dairy and egg free and this recipe can be modified to become dairy free/vegan as well if you wish. Store bought bread can be used too.

Making the Gluten Free French bread may feel intimidating but its honestly one of my most user friendly gluten free bread recipes. The steps to make it aren’t overly complicated! You can make that bread a day in advance or even a week or two in advance if you freeze it right after it has fully cooled. Either way- it will crisp up beautifully in the oven. The bread is perfect for slicing & it holds together like a dream. It is in every sense of the word REAL bread. You’ll be blown away by how amazing it turns out & so impressed with yourself for having made it.

Here is the direct link to the French bread recipe also here in the club. You’ll want to make that first UNLES you are opting for a store bought loaf of bread instead.

Another option is to use my crusty dutch oven artisan round loaf!! It will also taste really delicious. My French bread is a little bit fluffier& I think its a little easier to make but you really cant go wrong using either bread. :)

If you only own a dutch oven- then the artisan round loaf if your best option. If you own a pizza stone or baking steel then I would go with the newer French bread loaf. The French loaf is also egg free whole the artisan round is not. But again.. both recipes are phenomenal. Either will taste amazing.

Feel free to get creative with the toppings that you choose to stuff into the nooks and crannies of the bread. Sausage, olives, sundried tomatoes. fresh baby tomatoes cut into slices. different types of cheese, fresh herbs and spices mixed into the butter. Whatever your heart desires throw it in as you really cant go wrong.

Gluten Free Garlic Butter Pizza Pull-Apart French Bread!

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Author: Brittany Angell

This is one of those you wont believe its gluten free recipes! It is the perfect thing to throw together to eat while watching football on a Sunday! If you use my French bread recipe you'll end up with a LARGE loaf of bread with a beautiful crust and soft fluffy interior. The bread recipe itself is gluten, dairy and egg free and this recipe can be modified to become dairy free/vegan as well if you wish. Store bought bread can be used too.

Ingredients

• 1 full loaf unsliced of Gluten Free French Bread (linked in the post) OR 1 Artisan round loaf or other bread of choice.
• 2/3 cup butter melted (dairy or nondairy)
• 1 1/2 Tsp Garlic Powder or 6-8 cloves of garlic minced.
• 1/2 Tsp Salt
• 1/3 cup pizza sauce (optional)
• 1 Cup Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (OR Violife brand vegan mozzarella.)
• 3-6 ounces pepperoni (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Slice your loaf of bread in opposite directions. About every 1/2 inch. Leaving the base of the bread unsliced so that the bread holds together.
3. Melt the butter & whisk in the garlic & salt.
4. Loosely wrap the bottom of the bread in foil and place it on rimmed baking sheet. Spoon about 2/3 of the melted butter in between all the slices of bread to saturate the inside of the loaf. Then spoon in the pizza sauce (if you wish for this to be a garlic bread flavored bread- the sauce can be omitted.)
5. Layer and carefully press the pepperoni (each piece folded in half works best) into the grooves between the bread slices & then layer in the cheese on top. Spread the rest of the butter over the top & sides of the bread.
6. Cover the bread with more tinfoil. Place the baking sheet with the bread into the oven and bake 22-23 minutes until the cheese has fully melted.
7. Remove the top layer of tinfoil and bake an additional 10-15 minutes until golden brown & crispy. Serve hot/warm with additional pizza sauce (warmed up) for dipping.

Notes

If you would like to make this bread Vegan use dairy free butter of choice, violife cheese as it melts the best in the oven & omit the pepperoni.

Using pesto or any traditional pizza toppings would taste great. For example crumbled sausage, mozzarella and garlic butter would taste fantastic.

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