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Home » Recipes » Breads

Cheese Bacon Bread With Chives

Published: May 10, 2023 · Modified: Feb 26, 2025 by Marisa Franca

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This Cheddar Bacon Bread with Chives is a one-bowl, one-pan, and no-knead bread recipe loaded with cheesy-bacon flavor and fresh chives. Enjoy a warm slice as a delicious snack or side dish to various meals!

Loaf of Bacon Cheddar Quick Bread  sliced on a cutting board with butter on the side.
Enjoy this cheddar bacon cheese plain or with soft butter.
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  • ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
  • 🛒 Ingredients
  • 🗒 Instructions
  • 🔪 Equipment
  • 🤔 FAQs
  • 👩🏻‍🍳 Tips
  • 📚 Variations
  • 🥫 Storage
  • 📗 Related Recipes
  • 🍽 Serve with
  • 📞 Chiacchierata (chat)
  • 📝 Recipe Card
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 💬 Comments

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

  • It’s a one-bowl, one-pan quick bread that’s so easy and quick to make. There’s also no kneading required!
  • Bacon cheese bread is the perfect savory side dish to enjoy with any meal - breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner!
  • You can never go wrong with the combination of bacon, cheese, chives, and bread!

This quick and easy cheddar and bacon loaf is perfect warm from the oven or at room temperature with butter or a creamy herb spread. 

🛒 Ingredients

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Image of the ingredients needed to make the quick bread with bacon, cheddar cheese, and chives.

Note: The full list of this cheese quick bread recipe's ingredients with their amounts and options is in the recipe card below.

🗒 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.

Collage of first four steps to mixing and making the cheese quick bread.
  1. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper.
  2. Whisk together the eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter in a separate bowl.
  3. Add the wet and dry ingredients together. 
  4. Whisk to combine.
2nd collage of the mixing and forming of the bacon bread loaf.
  1. Add the cheddar, bacon, and chives to the bowl.
  2. Fold in the ingredients gently.
  3. Transfer the raw bread batter to a greased loaf pan. 
  4. Sprinkle extra cheddar cheese and pepper over the top.
Collage of the final process of baking the Cheddar Bacon Quick bread.
  1. Bake for 30-45 minutes at 350F. 
  2. Allow the baked bread to cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes and serve warm or at room temperature.

🔪 Equipment

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Bacon Quick Bread with Cheddar and Chive on wood cutting board.
Allow the cheese bread to cool in the loaf pan before cutting to prevent crumbling.

You’ll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.

  • A 9 X 5-Inch loaf pan

🤔 FAQs

Questions about making this quick bacon bread with cheese and chives recipe.

How do you make a bacon bread loaf?

Combine the usual ingredients (wet and dry) for a simple loaf bread and fold in cheddar cheese, bacon, and chopped chives. Top the raw bread batter with extra cheese and chives and bake until golden.

What is bacon cheese?

Bacon cheese is a type of cheddar cheese that has real bits of bacon in it. 

What is cheesy pull-apart bread made of?

This type of bread recipe consists of a loaf of bread, cut diagonally on the top and brushed with melted butter and garlic (minced or powdered). The bread is stuffed with shredded cheese and pulled apart to eat.

What do Italians call bacon?

Pancetta.

👩🏻‍🍳 Tips

  • Allowing the bacon bread to cool in the loaf pan for 15 minutes helps the bread to keep its shape. 
  • The bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
  • Cook the bacon ahead of time and drain any excess fat. Place the cooked bacon on paper towels to soak up excess fat.
Cheesy quick bread loaf with a slice removed.
Add more or less bacon and cheese to the bread dough as you like!

📚 Variations

  • Use a different combination of cheese for this cheddar bacon bread with chives. Mozzarella and Parmesan are a great choice. 
  • Add caramelized onions to the bread dough for added depth of flavor. 
  • Omit the bacon for a vegetarian cheddar cheese quick bread.

🥫 Storage

Store this Cheddar bacon bread with chives at room temperature in an airtight container for 2-3 days, in the fridge for 3-5 days, or in the freezer for 1-3 months.

In all instances, wrap the bread with plastic wrap to extend the freshness and texture. 

Cut quick bread loaf of chive cheddar bread with bacon including a slice that's buttered.
Bacon Cheddar Bread is perfect as a snack or side dish for any meal of the day.

📗 Related Recipes

  • Garlic Cheesy Bread - A bread with cheesy garlic butter seasoning - perfect with any Italian meal. 
  • Herb Cheese Swirl - A  savory stuffed bread that has swirls of delicious basil, garlic, onion, and two different types of cheese. 
  • Cheese And Caramelized Onion Bread - Enjoy this tasty savory bread as an appetizer or alongside a soup or salad. 
  • Spiced Pistachio Pumpkin Bread - This nutty and moist pumpkin bread is lightly sweetened, rich in flavor, and bursting with fall spices.

🍽 Serve with

Cheddar bacon bread with chives is a delicious snack as is. It’s also a tasty side dish that you can pair with salad, soup, cooked breakfast, or grilled meats for dinner.

📞 Chiacchierata (chat)

A few years back Hubby and I entered a bread baking contest. We decided to enter the quick bread and yeast bread portion of the contest. The competition was nail-biting fierce. But in the end, the winning entry for the quick bread portion was a savory bacon bread - this recipe.

The yeast bread that won first place was our Stud Muffin bread. A bread filled with gruyere cheese studded with tiny cubes of Parmesan cheese. The bread itself is in the shape of a huge muffin with tiny studs of cheese melting on top.

I've already shared the Stud Muffin Bread recipe, and now we're sharing our other blue ribbon-winning bread, Cheddar Bacon Bread With Chives.

Tutti a tavolo, è pronto!

Sliced loaf of quick bread made with cheddar, chive, and bacon.
We love to enjoy this savory chive bread along with our leisurely Sunday Brunch.

What's new? Check out my All Our Way Store on Amazon. We'll be adding more items we love and use or wish we had to make cooking fun and easy.

📝 Recipe Card

This easy no-knead bacon cheese bread is loaded with cheddar and Parmesan cheese, cooked bacon bits, and chopped chives. The extra sprinkle of shredded cheese on the top adds even more flavor and texture!

If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

📖 Recipe

Sliced Cheddar Bacon Bread With Chines on a white platter.

Bacon Cheddar Chive Quick Bread

Bake this one-bowl, one-pan quick bread for the family, a special occasion, or as a savory side to accompany a weeknight dinner, a weekend breakfast, or brunch.
5 from 12 votes
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Course: quick bread
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 35 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes
Resting time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 374kcal
Author: Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
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Equipment Needed

  • Mixing bowls
  • Wooden Mixing spoon
  • Loaf Pan 9X5
  • Cheese grater
  • Medium size skillet

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ c. all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. kosher salt
  • ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper plus more for sprinkling
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ c. buttermilk
  • 4 tbsp. ½ stick unsalted butter, melted
  • 4 oz. sharp Cheddar cheese grated (about 1 cup), plus more for top
  • 2 oz. Parmesan cheese grated (about ½ cup)
  • 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled
  • 3 tbsp. chopped fresh chives
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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan.
  • Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and butter in a measuring cup.
  • Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and whisk to combine. Fold in Cheddar, Parmesan, bacon, and chives.
  • Transfer to prepared pan. Sprinkle top with a little extra pepper and Cheddar.
  • Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes.
  • Cool in pan on a wire rack, 15 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature

Notes

  • Allowing the bacon bread to cool in the loaf pan for 15 minutes helps the bread to keep its shape. 
  • The bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
  • Cook the bacon ahead of time and drain any excess fat. Place the cooked bacon on paper towels to soak up excess fat.

Nutrition

Calories: 374kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 85mg | Sodium: 552mg | Potassium: 269mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 713IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 276mg | Iron: 3mg

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