Cheese Bread

Cheese bread is a great addition to any soup, stew or chili meal – and it’s great for lunch or just as an intensely cheesy snack!

For more tasty homemade bread recipes, I also have my beer bread and my Jiffy Corn Bread!

And for a good side with this, try some Zuppa Toscana!

Cheese Bread

This cheese bread is not only super simple, but it is also a no-yeast loaf, meaning that you don’t need to spend time letting it rise beforehand.

Once baked, it should taste cheesy, chewy, and a little bit crispy and be the perfect thing to serve with a soup or a chili.                                                                                                                                          

Cheese Bread Ingredients

Make sure you look at the recipe card at the very bottom for the exact amounts.

• All-purpose flour

• Baking powder

• Minced green onions

• Sugar

• Onion powder

• Garlic powder

• Salt

• Milk

• Egg

• Salted butter

• Aged cheddar cheese

How To Make Cheese Bread

• Grease a standard loaf pan and set aside

• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, onions, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, and salt

• Whisk together the milk, egg, and butter until completely combined

• Stir into the dry mixture, and then add in the cheese

• turn the batter out into the prepared pan, and then bake for 50 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit

• It is done when a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean and then remove to cool slightly 

Why Baking Powder Instead of Yeast?

This recipe utilizes baking powder as the leavening agent instead of yeast, which is what most bread recipes call for.

While yeast is definitely the traditional option for making any sort of bread, it isn’t what you use in a “quick bread” like this one.

Thanks to all of the onions, eggs, butter, and cheese, this cheese bread dough is too rich for the yeast to really thrive. If you tried to use regular dried yeast in this recipe, you would probably end up with a flat loaf.

Instead, the baking powder here works just fine at providing the necessary lift to give the bread a little bit of height. It won’t make it puff up like sandwich bread, but the baking powder should give the bread just enough airiness to remain light and tender when you bite into it.

What Type Of Cheese Is Best for This Cheese Bread?

Cheese bread is a traditionally made using a nice aged, sharp cheddar, and for a good reason. Cheddar not only melts well, but its strong, almost nutty flavor works perfectly with bread and acts as a contrast to whatever you will serve your cheese bread with.

However, feel free to experiment a bit with the cheese for this recipe. For example, you could swap out the cheddar for some nice Swiss Gruyere cheese or even a good melting cheese from Spain.

Try and avoid anything especially strong and stinky like blue cheese, though, as it probably won’t melt into the bread dough properly and will taste a bit weird once baked.

For those that don’t want a really strong flavor in their cheese bread, try and use something like Monterrey Jack or American cheese instead, just so long as it isn’t those plastic-y sheets of cheese-like substance that come in plastic wrap.

Stick to regular block cheese, and you shouldn’t go wrong.

What to Serve with Cheese Bread

This list could be unlimited, but here’s a few favorites :

Chilis – Instant Pot Chili, Instant Pot White Chicken Chili or my Turkey Chili

Stews : Instant Pot Beef Stew, Hungarian Goulash or my Guinness Irish Stew

Soups: Vegetable Beef Soup, Meatball Soup or my Cream of Cauliflower Soup

Looking for more delicious Bread Recipes ? Try these

• Oatmeal Bread
• Parker House Rolls Recipe
• No-Knead Focaccia Bread Recipe

Enjoy!

Love,

Karlynn

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