The BEST Cheesy Breadsticks that are easy to make and even better than take-out!Â
Serve them with a simple marinara sauce or homemade ranch dressing.
For this recipe I took my favorite homemade pizza crust recipe and halved it, to make one batch of breadsticks. You could make the full recipe for two batches of breadsticks, or use half the dough to make one pizza, and the other half to make cheesy breadsticks.
How to make Cheesy Breadsticks:
1. Make dough: Combine warm water, sugar and yeast. Let rest for 5 minutes. Add the remaining water, olive oil, salt and vinegar. Gradually add the flour and knead to a soft dough. Cover the bowl with a dry towel and allow to rest in a warm place for 1 hour.
2. Shape breadsticks: Gently punch the dough down, place it on top of a sheet of parchment paper, and use your hands (or a rolling pin, but it’s easier with your hands) to spread the dough into a rectangle about ⅓ inch thick. .
3. Add toppings: Mix melted butter and garlic in a small bowl and spread the butter and garlic mixture evenly over dough, all the way to the edges. Top with parmesan and mozzarella cheeses.
4. Bake: Transfer the dough (still on the parchment paper), gently onto the hot pizza stone or cookie sheet and bake at 500 degrees for about 8 minutes or until golden and bubbly.Â
Serve with dipping sauces like marina sauce or ranch.
Variations:
- Cinnamon sugar breadsticks: make the dough, form the breadsticks, then top with ½ stick of melted butter. Mix ½ cup sugar with 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon and sprinkle over the buttered breadsticks.
- Swap the cheese:Â feel free to substitute any kind of shredded cheese you like.
- Make pizza: This breadstick recipe is the same as my pizza dough recipe. You can use this recipe to make 1 pizza crust or double it to make pizza and breadsticks!
Make Ahead And Freezing Instructions:
To make ahead: Make the dough 3-4 hours before you want to bake breadsticks, storing it in the refrigerator to rise (instead of at room temperature).
To freeze: Make the dough. Spray it with non-stick cooking spray and place it inside a freezer safe bag. Try to get as much air as possible out of the bag. Freeze homemade dough for 2-3 months. Allow to thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Remove to the counter for 30 minutes before forming into breadsticks.
Breadsticks go with pizza! CONSIDER TRYING THESE POPULAR PIZZA RECIPES:
- White Garlic Chicken and Veggie Pizza
- Loaded Jalepeno Popper Pizza
- Chicken Alfredo Pizza
- Pesto Veggie Pizza
- Garlic Ranch Chicken Pizza
- Barbeque Chicken Pizza
- Garlic Knots
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Recipe
Cheesy Garlic Breadsticks
Ingredients
Dough:
- 1 1/8 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 ½ - 2 cups bread flour , or all-purpose flour
Topping:
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons salted butter
- 2 cloves garlic , minced
- 1/3 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1 1/4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a large bowl or stand mixer combine ½ cup of the warm water with the sugar and yeast. Stir to combine and let rest for 5 minutes. Add the remaining ¼ cup warm water, olive oil, salt and vinegar.
- Begin mixing on medium-low speed and gradually add the flour --knead for a few minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic (it should be slightly sticky, but not so sticky that it sticks to your clean fingertip). Mine is usually ready with 1 ½ cups flour) Cover the bowl with a dry towel and allow to rest in a warm place for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 475 degrees F with a pizza stone inside or upside down cookie sheet inside.
- Gently punch the dough down. Place a large piece of parchment paper on your counter and use your hands (or a rolling pin, but it’s easier with your hands) to spread the dough into a rectangle about ⅓ inch thick.
- Mix melted butter and garlic in a small bowl then spread mixture evenly over dough, all the way to the edges. Top with parmesan and mozzarella cheeses.
- Transfer the dough (still on the parchment paper) onto the hot pizza stone in the oven. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
- Serve with dipping sauces like marinara sauce or ranch.
Notes
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I originally shared this recipe February 2017. Updated September 2020.
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Tweaks I made to this recipe; we save the garlic butter from our papa Johns and use it for grilled cheese. Was perfect for this! Also instead of mozzarella, try Monterey Jack cheese. Definitely tasted better with that. Also I did start it at 475°F and baked the dough for 5 minutes, then topped it with cheese. Turned the oven down to 400° and baked it for 10 minutes until the cheese started to slightly brown. It came out perfectly.
Cooking temperature is too high the cheese was burned, bland taste and not worth making for my personal opinion.
Response to Chona: It was your oven. Nothing wrong with this recipe. If you have a basic understanding of cooking, you can make this easily and it will be perfect, as mine was. The problem wasn’t with the recipe. It’s you. Or your oven.
If you voted 1 star you somehow managed to fuck this up and shouldnt be cooking period. Maybe stick with microwaveable food.
Love breadsticks with gravy! I am stirring up some heaven on a plate right now.
Thank you for this recipe. This was a thousand times better than a store bought dough or takeout.
When I made the dough I was kind of worried because it didn’t seem like very much dough and didn’t rise much. When they went into the oven and come out they were delicious!! Next time I would probably double the recipe for the group I had, but if it was just my family (2-5 people) this is perfect!
I’m making now so I’m not sure how it will turn out, but a warning that when you adjust the portions using the 2x button, it does not adjust the amounts mentioned in the Instructions section. That’s pretty confusing for the water, and led me to use less water than what the amount should have been. Not sure if this happens in all recipes but I’ll look next time I do another one I’ve adjusted. If you’re using some kind of WP script to achieve the calculations, make sure it applies it to both sections! Thanks for your wonderful site, my daughter and I enjoy it very much.
Made these today. Didn’t have parm so I subbed in a cup of a half of mozz (do recommend using the exact amount of cheese, even if it does look like a lot). Added some oregano for a more of an Italian taste. I didn’t love the texture of the breadstick…. they were also too soft despite throwing them back in the oven? Can’t decide if it needs a bit more yeast or flour, but this recipe is a good starting point to tweak to your needs.
We made these twice now. The first time I made without Parmesan cheese and we preferred them that way unless you have fresh parm without the added anti caking agents. The second time we made them with Kraft Parmesan out of the green bottle and they were much drier. Have not been able to try with fresh parm yet. These are so good we’re making them for the third time tonight. They are like gourmet domino’s cheesy bread. Crave worthy. We use a bread maker to make our pizza dough. So easy. Set it and forget it!
WARNING!! If you make these you will want to make them all the time!! Way better than any cheesy breadstick I’ve gotten at a pizza chain. Delicious the next day too when the flavors have had more time to marinate. Made with bread flour and these actually could not be any better!
Followed to the tee added some oregano on top after it was baked.Dough is nice and soft. Will definitely try this again!