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This garlic bread recipe is the only one you’ll ever need – it’s creamy cheesy perfection and it’s so easy to make!
Oh, Lord, y’all. Have I got a recipe for you.
The other day I was flipping through my rather large stack of unread cooking magazines searching for recipes to tear out and save for later. I came across a recipe for how to make homemade garlic bread – creamy onion garlic bread, to be precise – and my heart stopped. The name alone was enough to make my mouth start watering. It wasn’t pretty.
I hurriedly ripped the recipe out, because with ingredients like onions and garlic it had to be good, right? Well, yeah, I’m sure it probably was a “good” recipe, but it wasn’t what I was hoping for. The list of ingredients included garlic powder, but no real garlic, and that, my friends, is a real tragedy.
I decided right then and there that I was going to save the world from eating mediocre garlic bread and, y’all, I don’t want to brag or anything, but this is the best garlic bread I have ever eaten in my life.
I created something amazing, if you ask me. If you try just one recipe from this site, let it be this one. Seriously. Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe the creamy yumminess that is this bread.
Here’s what you’ll need to make the best garlic bread recipe ever: cream cheese, butter, mayonnaise (if you’re a mayo hater, just double the amount of cream cheese), Parmesan cheese, garlic, garlic powder, green onions, salt and pepper. Oh, and a loaf of french bread.
Pretty easy, right? Nothing too crazy.
Here’s some good news about this bread – you can totally freeze it for another day!
The bread gets sliced in half, so I’ll bake one half of the loaf right away and pop the other half in the freezer for another day. This is easy to freeze – just stick it into the freezer, uncovered, for thirty minutes. After thirty minutes the topping should be frozen enough not to smear all over the place. Wrap it tightly in aluminum foil and freeze until needed. Bake it straight from the freezer at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Keep an eye on it, though, you won’t want it to get too brown and crunchy.
Creamy Onion Garlic Bread
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 4 oz. cream cheese room temperature
- 1/4 cup butter room temperature
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- 1 loaf French bread
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Finely dice the green onions and garlic. Drizzle a large pan with olive oil and saute onions and garlic for 1-2 minutes, until garlic is soft and fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In the a medium mixing bowl, stir together the cream cheese, butter and mayonnaise. Mix in Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Pour in the onion and garlic mixture and stir together with the cheese mixture.
- Slice the french bread in half lengthwise and spread the cut sides of the bread with the mixture.
- Bake for 5-10 minutes, until the topping has warmed through and the bread is golden at the edges.
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This post was updated with new images in 2017. Original photos from 2009 below.
Amanda says
My mouth is watering and now all I want to eat all day is garlic bread. Growing up we always had sliced bbq bread smeared with butter and sprinkled with garlic then popped into the oven to broil. Don’t get me wrong, I still love it that way but this recipe is just next level! I need it right now.
Karly says
What is bbq bread?? I’m intrigued.
Amanda says
It’s this… https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/0c86b615-f439-4349-be2d-adca260a68c9_1.019cf10c239942e7a15ba9cc91403545.jpeg
Karly says
I have never seen that before! Now I’m dying to try it!
Stephanie Woodward says
My Italian friend taught me to toast Italian bread, then rub with garlic, add butter, cheese, whatever you want, toast again. Wow summit. I agree, no garlic powder.
Alicia says
Wow! I just made this garlic bread to go with lasagna…we ended up finding the lasagna unnecessary. I’m pretty sure that I will never make garlic bread any other way. Delicious. Thanks so much for sharing!
Karly says
Hi Andrew,
You could certainly omit the garlic powder and just use the real garlic called for in the recipe. If you wanted you could increase it to 5 cloves of garlic or just leave it at 4. I think it’d be great either way!
Enjoy!
Karly
Andrew says
Thank you for sharing such a great recipe.
Could real garlic be used instead of powder?
rachel-asouthernfairytale says
This is one of my favorite ways to make Garlic Bread. I want you to submit this to Blissfully Delish. K? go. now.
mwah!
Danielle says
Mouthwatering!
A perfect bread to go with a great pasta dish!
Thanks!
Amanda says
I made this tonight and it is FABULOUS. I made a double batch so that I could freeze some for later. I made your blackberry bars last night.. Keep up the good recipes!
Kristen says
I think I’d have to skip breakfast, lunch and dinner… not just the salad. I’d eat the whole loaf. Yum!
Talia says
Yum! I LOVE garlic bread, and I am never quite happy with the ones frozen from the shops! I will definitely have to try this!!
Simone (junglefrog) says
O this looks delicious but… don’t tell me the cat actually ate your salad…:) lol… But seriously this looks like something I want to try like right now!
Runningamuck says
Oh MY goodness! This looks amazing! I saw the recipe over on Tasty Kitchen and wanted to comment but since I haven’t actually tried it yet I thought I’d better hold off. So I came here instead just so I could let you know how excited I am to try this recipe out. Thanks for sharing!! =0)
HaB says
Dear Lord – Please turn my coffee into Karly’s onion garlic bread so that my morning will be complete and I stop licking my computer monitor. …Please…Please.
Sharon says
That was too funny.w
Aliceson says
Holy Hannah, my nouth is watering just looking at that gorgeous bread. So much better than the garlic bread I have been making.
Jill says
That sounds awesome! I am going to have to try that, once I use up all the boxes of frozen garlic bread currently in my freezer. I is a cheater!