Gather everybody around because this garlic roll wreath isn’t going to stick around for long! Pull apart your little garlic roll or garlic knot and dunk it in your favorite marinara sauce, and would you just look at how beautiful this looks on the apps table? I mean, doesn’t it just steal the show! And if you’d like to do this for more of a buffet-style dinner, more power to you, my friend. Just be sure to account for 3 or 4 rolls per person because these babies have a way of disappearing. You really can’t eat one and stop! This past week has been the best and the worst kind. For the worst: I went down with the worst cold I’ve had in many years. The kind that turns your brain to mush. You can’t get warm even when you’re wearing not one but three sweatshirts and a warming blanket. When everything behind your mouth and nose feels like it’s been stuffed with cotton balls making it impossible to swallow so your mouth is perpetually left open. I blame it on the plane ride home from Maui. Don’t they always say airplanes make people sick? And now for the best: It SNOWED! Real, actual, sparkling SNOW IN HOUSTON. And it even stuck around overnight and into most of the afternoon the next day. For the first time in 17 years, I experienced snow like this in Texas. It’s magical to look out your kitchen window to a thin veil spread across the lawn and all your neighbor’s rooftops.
Okay, enough about me, back to this pull-apart garlic roll wreath. This started off as a recipe for garlic knots, you know, the kind that they sell at good pizza shops, fresh from the oven and doused with housemade garlic butter? There’s a pizza place in Austin that makes the best garlic knots, and this is just be trying to turn garlic rolls into something a little more festive, okay? Basically, just place these little rolls next to each other and make a wreath out of it. Also, I need to mention these are not made from dough in a tube. The classic blue tube you see in the refrigerated section of your grocery store, don’t let it come within 5-feet of this garlic roll wreath. This is made with all REAL PIZZA DOUGH, and you get that yeasty, homemade bread smell lingering through your whole house, and when the guests walk in, they will LOSE their minds to the garlicky bliss that comes from your oven. Pop in a bowl of your favorite tomato sauce (mine happens to be a spicy arrabbiata sauce) and let them go to town!
Now I know I called this EASY pull apart garlic roll wreath. And the thing is, it’s easy, most definitely. Let your mixer (affiliate link) do the work, let it rest in the oven, and then just shape it into dough balls. But I get that sometimes we see things on the internet, and we want to run with the idea. You know, scratch tonight’s garlic bread off the menu, we’re making a pull-apart garlic roll wreath sort of thing. And for times like this when you want REAL garlic rolls, and you want them NOW, run to your nearest grocery store, pizza shop, friends freezer, and grab yourself a couple of pounds of premade dough. But if you can spare a little more time, make yourself homemade pizza dough. The recipe for the pizza dough is the one I always use. Just regular flour, sugar, salt, olive oil, yeast, and water. I’ve made it over and over again, and it’s perfect – both for pizza and this garlic roll wreath.
And for my cheese LOVERS out there, let me make this one a little more decadent for you. When you’re rolling the dough into balls, sneak in a small square of whole milk mozzarella in there and then make your wreath. You know those cheese bombs that took over the internet circa 2015, well this would be a pull-apart wreath made out of those. Once the wreath is out of the oven, we’ll brush it with a garlic-parsley butter that’s fragrant and delicious. I added a pinch of red pepper flakes to it to give my garlic roll wreath a little more color, and you can do that too if you like things a little spicy. A few sprigs of rosemary scattered to fill in tiny holes, and you’ve got yourself a garlic roll wreath! And feel free to sprinkle it with a little parmesan too. You can’t go wrong with parmesan.
Serve these fresh from the oven brushed with garlic butter and with a bowl of warm marinara sauce. And honestly, don’t be surprised when all your party guests refuse to go too far from your garlic roll wreath. Can you tell lately I’m really into making homemade bread? I mean, it’s what, like the third one in two months? Skip the garlic knots, garlic bread, the basic dinner rolls, croissants, and crescent rolls and just make a garlic roll wreath already, wouldja! My life revolves around these pillowy soft garlic rolls ATM.
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