Di's Clog Your Artery Garlic Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 loaf sour dough french breadstick
• 6 cloves garlic
• 1/2 cup salted butter
• 2 cups whole whipping cream
• 1 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
• cracked pepper (a couple of good turns of the pepper grinder)
• fresh parsley, chopped (to garnish)
• additional grated parmesan cheese, if required

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 degrees f or 190 c or british gas mark 5.
• 2 dice all the garlic very finely.
• 3 in a medium sauce pan, melt a quarter of butter so you are left with a 1/4 cup remaining of the original 1/2 cup of butter, then add the garlic to the melting butter and saute until garlic is golden.
• 4 add remaining butter to sauce pan until all is melted.
• 5 slice the french bread lengthwise creating two halves, then cut 3" thick slices across each half, but do not cut all the way through yet.
• 6 place the two halves of french bread next to each other on a cookie sheet covered with cooking foil.
• 7 next, slowly and evenly pour the garlic and butter over each half of the french bread.
• 8 let the garlic butter melt into the bread.
• 9 set sauce pan aside but do not clean it yet.
• 10 place the two lenghtwise halves of the french bread back together to form one bread stick.
• 11 bake uncovered until the outside is slightly crispy and the inside is very warm.
• 12 while bread is heating, pour the whipping cream into the buttery sauce pan, add the freshly grated parmesan cheese and the rest of the spices.
• 13 stir slowly for a while until sauce is thick and rich and most of the parmesan cheese has melted into the sauce.
• 14 this may take 15 minutes or so.
• 15 note: you can add more cheese to help thicken the cream at any time.
• 16 when bread is warm and sauce is ready, open the bread back up, place in a serving dish and pour the sauce all over it.
• 17 this may need two people to get the sauce into the cracks of the slices: one to pour and the other uses two forks to open it up.
• 18 but choose the second person carefully.
• 19 you don't want someone who can't control their drools.
• 20 the cream should be all over the bread and the serving dish.
• 21 you will need a knife and spatula to serve your artery bread and be ready to wipe the brow of your guests, they will be in heaven.