Easiest Garlic Bread Recipe (2024)

By Kelleyon January 5, 2012 | Sides

As in it’s the easiest garlic bread ever.

It only has three ingredients: soft french bread, butter, garlic salt.

It is important to note however that this works best with soft french bread. You know, the kind you find in every bakery in every grocery store across America.

It’s the garlic bread I grew up on and it wasn’t well into my teens that I realized garlic bread could be more than just gooey buttered french bread heavy on the garlic salt. Which for the record is so NOT a bad thing. In fact, it’s still my favorite way to eat it. It could be nostalgia but I’m sure it has to do with the copious amount of butter involved. Just saying.

And as much as I’d love to take credit for this bread, it’s all my mom. The real mountain mama. Or at least my mountain mama. A loaf (or two) of this bread graced our table so many times over the years usually accompanying bowls of homemade spaghetti, her delicious beef stew or my personal favorite, baked parmesan chicken.

I follow this recipe often when I’m cooking for clients. It’s the perfect make ahead recipe for garlic bread which is super handy when I’m dropping off lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs for a family. Instead of my clients having to make their own bread, I can give them a loaf wrapped in foil that they can easily throw in the oven to heat through just before they sit down for dinner.

Easy peasy as my friend Nina would say.

Buttering each slice of the bread and then wrapping it in foil ensures the bread is buttery, gooey goodness. This bread doesn’t work with garlic powder and it’s not as good if you use garlic powder and salt. The best result comes from using garlic salt. Why? Because I said so. Ok, not really, but I swear it tastes better when you use the already prepared garlic salt. It’s the perfect ratio.

So there you have it. My recipe for the easiest garlic bread ever. Even little people love it. How can you deny the cuteness of my little blondie chowing through his 3rd or 4th slice. He’s a boy after his mama’s heart. I love to eat this cold the next morning if we have any leftovers. I know it sounds weird but I love it. What can I say? I used to eat sticks of butter as a kid and pour garlic powder into my mouth. Please don’t judge me on that last one.