Cheddar Garlic Pull Apart Muffins Recipe

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Cheddar Garlic Pull Apart Muffins Ingredients:

• Refrigerated biscuits – If you don’t want to use refrigerated biscuits, you could substitute a store-bought pizza dough.
• Cheddar cheese – You want a block of cheese, not a bag of pre-shredded cheese.
• Garlic – Fresh garlic adds more flavor than jarred, minced garlic.
• Olive oil – This helps to prevent the pull apart muffins from sticking to the muffin tin.
• Seasoning – You want salt and garlic powder for this recipe.

How To Make Cheddar Garlic Pull Apart Muffins:

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Cut each of the refrigerated biscuits in six pieces and put the pieces in a large bowl.

Shred the cheese.

Small aside: Bagged shredded cheese has preservatives added to it that allow it to stay as individual pieces and not turn into one big clump of cheese in the bag. That’s helpful for packaging and selling, but not for melting.

When you try to melt shredded cheese, it doesn’t melt as well as when you shred your own block cheese because of those preservatives.

This recipe is best when the cheese melts, so we suggest shredding your own block cheese rather than using shredded cheese.

Add the cheese to the biscuits.

Grate the garlic.

If you don’t have a garlic grater, you can chop the garlic instead. But you get a stronger garlic taste if you grate the garlic.

Add the grated garlic to the biscuits.

Drizzle with half the olive oil and seasoning.

Stir until combined.

Add the rest of the olive oil and seasoning, and stir some more, making sure the ingredients are evenly distributed.

If you stir with your hands, you’ll distribute the garlic and cheese better.

Put four pieces of the refrigerated biscuit each cavity of a non-stick muffin pan.

The best way to do this is to put one piece in each of the 12 cavities, then put a second in each, a third, and finally the fourth. If you put four at once, you may end up getting pieces that are really sticky. After they bake, they won’t really pull apart in the way that you want it to.

Top with any remaining cheese and garlic from the bowl.

Bake for about 15 minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven when the tops and edges start to brown.

Let the cheesy garlic pull apart muffins cool slightly before removing them from the pan.

Cheddar Garlic Pull Apart Muffins: Frequently Asked Questions