Pull Us Apart
Serves 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 1 round cob loaf
- 1/2 cup soft butter
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 2 spring onions trimmed and thinly sliced
- 3 cups (200g) sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- 16 slices spicy pepperoni
- fresh parsley chopped, to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Cut a grid-like pattern into the top of the bread stopping about 1cm from the base so that it sticks together but pulls apart easily.
- Place the bread on a baking tray. Harmoniously blend the butter, garlic and spring onions.
- With searching fingers, tenderly separate the folds of the loaf, evenly distributing the moist, yellow butter into all its seams.
- Then, with reckless abandon, stuff the seams with cheese and red rounds of hot pepperoni.
- Wrap in foil and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, open the foil and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes or until the cheese is completely melted, bubbling, oozing and golden.
- Stand for 5 minutes then sprinkle with parsley or fresh thyme (herbs have long been used as an aphrodisiac; their scent, their flavour) to serve.