Super cheesy easy cheese bread recipe! Omg this is my absolute favorite homemade cheese bread recipe. It is such an easy bread recipe, you make it in a dutch oven, and itās all crispy on the outside and soft on the insideā¦yum!!! I eat this no knead cheese bread for breakfast, as toast, for sandwiches, extra cheesy grilled cheese, and even an afternoon snack. This is the perfect recipe if you are a beginner to bread baking!
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Easy Cheese Bread
Can’t stop won’t stop creating these easy no-knead bread recipes.
From savory olive bread, to sweet cinnamon raisin bread with pecans, to classic homemade artisan bread, I am in love with all of them.
And don’t even get me started on the no-knead focaccia – it’s heavenly.
I actually wanted to make and share a homemade cheese bread recipe with you a couple weeks ago. Then I went to the fridge and saw that we were completely out of cheese…what!?? For a cheese and butter obsessed family, this is practically unheard of.
I have been ordering all our groceries online for the past year so a quick pop into the store for some cheese wasn’t going to be happening. So I ended up making the cinnamon raisin no-knead bread instead and I wasn’t sad about it at all.
But we’re back in cheese stock now so an easy no-knead cheese bread recipe was a must!
If you love making homemade sourdough bread, I put together this big list of sourdough discard recipes, so you don’t have to discard the discard!
Related recipe: The Best Homemade Mayonnaise (Plus Two Fun Variations!)
No-Knead Cheese Bread Ingredients
This cheese bread is extra yummy because of a cheese double whammy! Yup not one whammy of cheese but two.
You’ll use grated cheese which will melt into the dough so that every bite of this homemade cheese bread is extra cheesy. Then you’ll use cubes of cheese so that you’ll get bites with pockets of extra cheese in them – total yum.
You’ll only need these four ingredients for this easy cheese bread recipe:
all-purpose flour
instant yeast
salt
cheese
Another quick and delicious no-knead bread recipe is this rosemary focaccia – I bet you’ll love it!
Homemade Cheese Bread Recipe Tips
1. What kind of cheese should you use for this cheese bread recipe
Use any hard cheese you like for this cheese bread recipe. You need to be able to grate it (so no soft cheeses) but cheddar, gouda, monterey jack, havarti, etc. are all good.
I used havarti in this recipe, though in our house it’s referred to as habarbie (what my preschooler thought it was called).
2. What type of yeast should I use in a no-knead recipe
The type of yeast you use is super important. Though instant yeast and quick yeast sound really similar, they aren’t. They can’t be subbed for each other. Instant yeast is what you want for this recipe and the other no-knead bread recipes.
3. How long does the no-knead bread dough need to rise?
This is a very forgiving recipe. If you’re like, hurry up bread and rise already I want to bake you, you can probably get away with a 2 hour rise time. You can also mix up the dough, leave it out for the day, and bake the bread for dinner. Eight hours would be fine too. I usually aim for about a 3-4 hour rise time myself but sometimes I am impatient and it’s only two. It still turns out delicious.
If you have a warm kitchen you won’t need this trick but if your house is on the cool side (mine is!), this will help. Cover the ball of dough in a bowl with plastic wrap and put the bowl in your oven. Turn on your oven light. The small amount of warmth from the light and the closed oven will help your bread rise beautifully! Just make sure you take out the bowl before you preheat your oven!
4. Baking bread in a dutch oven
Dutch ovens are so awesome for bread making. With the lid on you bake the bread, and crisp the crust. Then you remove the lid for the last 15 minutes of bake time to brown the crust a bit more. If you’ve never used a dutch oven to bake bread before you have to try it. It’s magical.
One of my favorites is this gorgeous red dutch oven. The bright color is just so cheery in the kitchen, especially when youāre baking bread on a cold winter day.
I also love Le Creuset dutch ovens.
A good, sturdy, enameled cast-iron dutch oven is the way to go.
Whatever one you use, make sure the lid is tight so that you get that really crispy crust on your homemade bread.
You can also bake this bread in a regular bread pan. The crust will be softer but still delicious! Keep an eye on the time because it will need less time than with the dutch oven.
Okay, let’s bake cheese bread!!
Easy Cheese Bread Recipe
Easy Cheese Bread
Super cheesy easy cheese bread recipe! This is my favorite homemade cheese bread recipe. It is an easy bread recipe, you make it in a dutch oven, and it’s all crispy on the outside and soft on the inside…yum!!! Eat this no knead cheese bread for breakfast, as toast, for sandwiches, and even an afternoon snack. This is the perfect recipe if you are a beginner to bread baking!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Ā½ cups room temperature water
- 2-4 tbsp all-purpose flour for shaping into a ball
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 Ā½ cups shredded cheese , any kind you like
- 1 cup cheese cubes, ~ Ā½"
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix 3 cups of flour, salt, yeast, grated cheese, and cheese cubes.
- Measure 1 Ā½ cups of room temperature tap water and pour it into the dry ingredients.
- Stir until all the dough comes together and there are no flour pockets.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in a warm place to rise for 3-4 hours (minimum 2 hours, up to 8 hours)
- Near the end of the rise time, put your empty dutch oven (with the lid on) into your oven, and heat oven to 425F.
- Remove the plastic wrap, add 2-4 tablespoons of flour, just to bring the dough into a ball; don't knead the dough with it, we want those air pockets made by the rise!
- When your oven temp reaches 425F, remove your dutch oven from the oven with mitts (lid is very hot too!)
- Drop the dough into your hot dutch oven (ungreased, unlined).
- Bake your cheese bread at 425F for 30 minutes in the dutch oven with the lid on.
- Remove the dutch oven lid and bake for 15 minutes more, to brown the crust.
- Take the loaf out and put it onto a cutting board; cut it when cool or enjoy warm from the oven!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
1Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
If you’re really nervous about making your own bread, don’t miss Making Your Own Bread for Beginners ā 5 Big Mistakes to Avoid.
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This looks delicious. I adore cheese bread. The texture looks delicious and something I can only drool over being gluten free. But hey! I can dream xx
Thanks Kate! Have you made a gluten-free cheese bread before? I have never tried any of my no-knead bread recipes with gluten-free all purpose flour – I’d be curious how they’d turn out.
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Bev
Thank you so much Bev! I hope you love this cheese bread recipe as much as we do! I also hope you’re feeling lots better by Friday – I hear that cheese bread helps people heal (not medically proven – lol) š
I have been reading Nigella Lawsons cookbook which features a version of this bread. I must say your directions and recipe are much clearer and easier to make.
Bernadette, that is such a sweet compliment as I love Nigella! š Thank you! xx Let me know what you think if you try my version of easy cheese bread!
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It stuck to my Dutch oven
@Stephanie, I usually put it on parchment paper and drop it in the Dutch ovenā¦
Could u please give me temp and time when doing in a regular bread pan opposed to a dutch oven…which I don’t have
Hi Lauretta! You can bake it at 400 degrees. I find that 35-40 minutes works perfectly for my own when making this cheese bread recipe in a regular loaf pan. Hope you love it! xx
I donāt know what it is I did wrong but my bread stuck so bad in my Dutch oven I canāt get it to come out! Iām really sad because it looks and smells so good
Hi Darci! I am sorry that your bread stuck. š That must have been disappointing. The main reason this happens is if you needed a bit of extra flour in the step before you plop the dough ball into the dutch oven. If it is too wet, it will stick. Different flours and different scooping methods will mean that the ball of bread dough could feel slightly different each time. While you definitely don’t want it dry and full of flour patches, it can stick if it’s too wet. If you try this cheese bread recipe again, you could add a few more tablespoons of flour (only if the dough ball feels a bit sticky). You could also sprinkle a small amount of flour or cornmeal on the bottom of your dutch oven – just don’t put a lot because it could brown/burn a little on the bottom if you do. Good luck – it really is a delicious recipe and thank you for trying it. xx
@Darci, I always put the ball on parchment paper and drop that in the Dutch ovenā¦ I use a piece big snuff so that it covers bottoms and sides
What size Dutch oven do you use? I have a 2 quart size, but know that Dutch ovens can vary in size.
Yes, 2 quart will work for this recipe!
Mine just came out of the oven and itās perfect. Great recipe and SO easy.
I wish I could put up a picture! This was amazing! I added all .5 by .5 inch cubes of BOTH cheddar and pepperoni I cut up for pasta salad and had leftover. It is magical! Thanks for the idea and recipe!!!
Mine always fallsš¢. How do I prevent that?
Hi Carol! Oh no! Let’s see if we can fix that. If you’re sure that your yeast is fresh and active, then it probably needs more time in your oven. Ovens are so different, and you could need an extra 25 degrees F, or an extra 15 minutes of bake time. If it does puff up/rise high, but then collapses shortly after baking, it probably needs more bake time. I would add a full 15 minutes more, keeping a close eye on it the first time you do this to make sure it doesn’t burn. If the top gets too brown, you can always cover with foil for the last 15 minutes to protect it. Hope this helps! xx
This is the best bread Iāve ever made! I stopped making sourdough after I found this easy recipe. Friends and coworkers beg for it all the time and my daughter goes through a loaf herself every other day. My favorite is shredded gouda, cubed cheddar, and black pepper.
Thanks so much for sharing this comment (and the cheese bread! lol) Cecilee! You made my day! š
Can it rise more than 8 hours and still be good?
Hi Charlotte! It can! I have let this cheese bread dough rise for 12-16 hours and it’s still good. If you live in a very warm place you might want to check on it that it doesn’t spill over and lose it’s shape, but in most cases it will be just fine and just as delicious. š
Hi, I make the spread all the time and it is by far my favourite go to bread recipe. Itās fabulous!!!!!
Just wondering, if anyoneās let it sit overnight to rise? Can it sit 12 to 14 hours?
Glad you love it Carol! Yes I have let it sit overnight to rise. The only caveat here is if it is hot inside where you are, it could rise too quickly and collapse overnight. What I have done when I want to make bread but bake it the next morning and I feel like it is quite warm inside is I put the no-knead dough in the fridge overnight. It works well when you want to leave it for longer!
Can I make this bread in individual flower pots?
So easy!!! And itās beautiful!