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Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Bread with a piece cut out on cutting board

Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Bread

Stuffed with sweet cream cheese and dunked in a custardy butter sauce, Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Bread is more decadent than the original.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 6 people
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 small round loaves white bread about 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall
  • 1 oz parmesan cheese shaved
For the cream cheese filling
  • 6 oz cream cheese softened to room temperature
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • ⅛ cup half and half
For the butter sauce
  • ½ cup butter unsalted
  • 2 tbsp garlic minced
  • ¼ cup half and half
  • 1 tbsp parsley minced
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 egg
For garnish
  • parsley minced, for garnish

Equipment

  • Heatproof metal or glass bowl for double boiling

Method
 

  1. Preheat your oven to 400°.
Make the cream cheese filling
  1. Let the cream cheese soften to room temperature.  You can also microwave it for 10-20 seconds to speed up the process. 
  2. Once softened, whisk the cream cheese with the sugar and half and half until it’s smooth and no lumps remain.
    Cream cheese filling
Slice the bread
  1. Make four slices about two-thirds of the way through both loaves of bread, resulting in eight pieces or sections per loaf. 
    The most important part of this step is to not cut all the way through the bread.  Just cut partly through it.
    Bread with four slices
Stuff the bread
  1. Add the cream cheese to a pastry bag or to a ziploc bag.  If using a ziploc bag, cut a small slit in the bottom corner of the bag.
    Cream cheese filling in a ziploc bag
  2. First pipe the cream cheese directly into each cut you made.  And then pipe more cheese directly into the center of the bread. Repeat for the second loaf.
    Bread stuffed with cream cheese
Make the butter sauce
  1. Set up a double boiler. Put two to three inches of water in a large pot and bring it to a simmer on your stovetop over medium-low heat.
  2. Now place a heatproof metal or glass bowl directly on top of the pot of simmering water. This bowl should not directly touch the simmering water.
  3. While the water’s still simmering, add all of the sauce ingredients (butter, ¼ cup half and half, minced garlic, parsley, 1 tablespoon sugar, and egg) to the bowl. 
    Ingredients in double boiler before being cooked
  4. Cook the ingredients, stirring constantly, for about five minutes until all the butter is melted and the sauce thickens.  Remove the bowl from the stove.
    Butter sauce after being cooked in double boiler
Dunk the bread and top with cheese
  1. Dunk the bread directly into the bowl with the sauce. 
    Use a spoon to pour the sauce all over every surface of the bread.  Try to get the sauce inside all of the cuts you’ve made by repeatedly spooning butter on top of the bread.
    Bread with butter sauce
  2. Place the sauced bread on a parchment-lined sheet tray.  Shave an ounce of parmesan on top of the bread (half an ounce per loaf).
    Bread topped with parmesan before being baked
Bake
  1. Bake the bread at 400° for 15-18 minutes until the bread is browned.  Rotate the tray halfway through baking to ensure even browning.
    Bread after being baked on sheet tray
  2. Remove the bread from the sheet tray and place on a serving plate. Top with fresh parsley for garnish.