CREAM CHEESE GARLIC BREAD

If you want to cut the calories: reduce sugar and cream cheese amount in the cream cheese mixture (or even skip the cream cheese). Just dip store-bought buns into the super quick and easy to make garlic sauce, bake the breads at 160C for 10 minutes and you will have a wonderful breakfast or snack during the day

Ingredients:

1. The bread (if you want to save time, you can always use store-bought soft buns):

150ml warm milk

20g (1.5 tbsp) sugar

4g (1 tsp) instant yeast

280g (2 cups + 3 tbsp) bread flour

1g (1/4 tsp) salt

1 medium egg

30g (2 tbsp) soft unsalted butter

2. The cheese sauce:

400g (1 2/3 cup) cream cheese

80g (1/3 cup) heavy cream

50g sugar

**3. Butter garlic sauce: **

200g butter (1 cup)

50g minced garlic (6 tbsp)

20g honey (1 tbsp)

50g sweet condensed milk (2.5 tbsp)

1 egg

1 tbsp dried parsley

** Instruction:**

**1. Bread making: **

  • In a bowl, add luke warm milk + sugar + instant yeast, mix thoroughly

  • Add in bread flour + 1 egg + salt, mix well and let it rest for 15 mins

  • After 15 mins, use a hand mixer knead at 3/6 level for 1 minute

  • Add in 30g soft butter, continue kneading for 4 minutes

_ Grease another clean bowl, put the dough inside and cover with cling film, put it in warm place until the dough rises double in size (about 1 hour)

  • After 1 hour, knead the dough by hand for 1 – 2 minutes to release gas inside the dough

  • Divide the dough into 6 equal parts, shape into 6 small balls

  • Put 6 balls into a floured tray, cover with wet towel or cling film and let them rise the 2nd time ( about 1 to 1.5 hour)

  • Bake them at 180C for 20 mins

2. Cream cheese sauce:

  • Soften cream cheese (room temperature)

  • Add sugar, mix to dissolve

  • Add heavy cream into 2 batches, mix to combine

  • Pour into the piping bag and keep it in the fridge for later use

3. Garlic sauce

  • Melted butter and off the heat

  • Add in garlic + honey + sweet condensed milk + 1 egg + dried parsley

  • Mix until well combined

  • Slice the bread into 6 or 8 equal segments without cutting through the bottom

  • Pipe cream cheese mixture in between segments

  • Dip the bread into the garlic sauce

  • Bake at 160C for 10 mins