Pizza Pull Apart Bread

This is actually a recipe from my sister. She made it for Superbowl and it was yummy!

This recipe is really more of a method to make a yummy stuffed pull apart bread, and you could change it up by using different types of cheese, meat and other filling.

To start she defrosted 3 loaves of frozen bread dough overnight in a Ziploc bag. This gave the dough a chance to rise.  She tore the dough into small pieces (a little smaller than the palm of her hand and placed a small piece of mozzarella cheese and a slice of pepperoni inside the dough.

She repeated this step until she ran out dough. She ended up using a block and a half of cheese and about half of a package of pepperoni.

In a small bowl, she melted a stick of butter with 2 tablespoons of garlic powder. She use this mixture to coat the bottom of a bundt pan and then started stacking the balls of dough into the pan, coating each ball in the butter mixture (I said it was yummy....I didn't say it was healthy!).

After placing all of the dough balls into the pan, she baked the entire thing at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. After taking it out of the oven, she let it cool for about 10 minutes and then served it with some pasta sauce for dipping.

As you can see, the bread did get rather dark. It tasted perfect, but I think that next time I would lower the over temperature to 350 and bake for a little longer. 

Here is the overview (remember you could swap out any/all of the fillings below for something that you already have in the house to make a fun new combination):

3 loaves of frozen bread dough (or use dough made from scratch)

2 blocks of Mozzarella cheese cut into small cubes

Pepperoni Slices

1 stick butter

2 tablespoons garlic powder

Pasta sauce

Wrap the cheese and pepperoni into small balls of dough. Coat the dough in the butter and garlic mixture and bake in a bundt pan for 35-45 minutes at 350. Serve with pasta sauce for dipping.