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Baked Goat Cheese with Roasted Garlic and Pull Apart Baguettes
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Baked Goat Cheese with Roasted Garlic and Pull Apart Baguettes

Baked Goat Cheese with Roasted Garlic offers a creamy, warm goat cheese center flavored with fresh thyme, seasoned gently, and surrounded by sweet roasted red peppers. The mixture is topped with caramelized garlic cloves roasted in olive oil, creating a rich and aromatic appetizer or snack. It is served with pull apart baguettes sliced and seasoned with olive oil, garlic powder, thyme, salt, and pepper, toasted to crisp edges and warm softness inside.

Total Time
40 mins
Servings: 4 appropriately, 2 obnoxiously
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 8 garlic peeled, cloves
  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 8 ounces goat cheese
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons thyme fresh
  • 1 roasted red peppers 12-ounce jar, patted dry
pull apart baguettes
  • 1 baguette sliced into 4 pieces, long
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon thyme fresh
  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven the 375 degrees F. Place the garlic cloves and olive oil in a small ramekin. Put it in the oven and roast until the garlic is caramely and golden, about 20 minutes.
  2. Mix the goat cheese with 1 tablespoon of the fresh thyme, the salt, pepper and garlic powder. Form it into an oval and place it in the center of a baking dish or oven-safe skillet. Surround the cheese with the roasted red peppers. Pour almost all of the oil over the goat cheese and place the garlic cloves on top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the cheese is soft and smooth and hot. Pop the bread in the oven in the last 5 minutes, just to warm it. Remove from the oven and drizzle with remaining olive oil and thyme. Serve immediately.
pull apart baguettes
  1. Take each section of the baguette and slice into the bread every 1/2-inch, just stopping before you slice through. Brush the bread with the olive oil – getting inside the crevices. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and garlic powder, as well as the fresh thyme. Pop in the oven for the last 5 minutes of the goat cheese baking – I prefer these to be soft and untoasted, but still warm.