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Garbage Bread

Garbage Bread is crazy delicious, perfect for a party or weeknight meal, and endlessly adaptable! My favorite is this Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread…it’s cheesy, packed with flavor, and served with classic hamburger sauce!

GARBAGE BREAD!! This is a simple recipe that can be adapted SO many ways! Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread is our favorite, but throw your leftovers in a pizza crust and roll it up! The possibilities are endless.

I had never heard of “Garbage Bread” until recently…but I’ve gathered it’s a whole thing in the world! The concept is simple…throw whatever you like into a pizza crust and roll it up, cinnamon roll-style. Easy? For sure. Delicious? You bet. Low-calorie? Um…no.

If you’re looking for something a little more heart-healthy, today isn’t your lucky day. BUT if you’re looking for classic game-day, party food. Well, I gotcha, boo.

GARBAGE BREAD!! This is a simple recipe that can be adapted SO many ways! Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread is our favorite, but throw your leftovers in a pizza crust and roll it up! The possibilities are endless.

Get Creative With Your Garbage Bread Recipe

You can seriously can throw whatever you want to in Garbage Bread…Buffalo Chicken Dip? Do it. Leftover Spaghetti? Trust me, delicious. Spinach and Artichoke Dip? SERIOUSLY YES. Crack Chicken? Best idea ever!

My favorite version of Garbage Bread is the recipe I am sharing with you today. It’s of the stick-to-your-bones Bacon Cheeseburger variety. It essentially tastes like a White Castle Cheeseburger. (And if you’ve never tried a White Castle I feel both sorry for you and jealous of you all at the same time.)

All you do is fry up some bacon. This is a Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Recipe, after all.Garbage Bread

And then brown some ground beef with some steak seasoning and Velveeta. Yes, I said it. This low-level food…which I am happy to make no apologies for. We’re all adult-ish here. We’re allowed.

Mix the bacon in with the cheesy meat…

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And then spread it on a rolled out thin crust pizza dough…

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Oh yeah, and add more cheese.

Roll up the dough like you would a cinnamon roll, from the long end and then bake it!

GARBAGE BREAD!! This is a simple recipe that can be adapted SO many ways! Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread is our favorite, but throw your leftovers in a pizza crust and roll it up! The possibilities are endless.

Allow the bread to cool a little bit before slicing, so you get perfect slices!

GARBAGE BREAD!! This is a simple recipe that can be adapted SO many ways! Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread is our favorite, but throw your leftovers in a pizza crust and roll it up! The possibilities are endless.

This Garbage Bread recipe is the perfect game day food, and is such a great recipe to adapt!

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Bacon Cheeseburger Garbage Bread

Garbage Bread

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  • Author: Cookies & Cups
  • Yield: serves 4-6 1x

Description

Garbage Bread is like a bacon cheeseburger Stromboli! Perfect for game day, or a weeknight meal….AND totally adaptable!


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1/2 pound chopped bacon
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • 1 tablespoon steak seasoning (I used McCormick)
  • 12 ounces Velveeta, cubed
  • 1 (13.8 ounce) thin crust pizza dough (I used Pillsbury)
  • 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar jack cheese

Sauce

  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In a large skillet over medium-low heat cook bacon until it’s crisp. Remove the bacon from the pan and set aside. Drain most of the grease.
  3. In the same skillet, heat to medium high. Add the onions and ground beef into the skillet and cook until the the onions are soft and the meat is cooked through. Drain anymore excess liquid/grease from the pan. Place the skillet back on the heat and turn the heat to low. Add bacon back into the pan and season with the steak seasoning. Add in the Velveeta and stirring continuously cook until the cheese is melted. Remove the pan from the heat.
  4. Roll the pizza dough out onto the prepared baking sheet. The dough should be approximately a 15×10 rectangle. Spread the meat mixture evenly on top, leaving an inch at the edges to allow for spreading. Sprinkle the grated cheese on top of the meat. Roll up the pizza dough, starting with the long sides and pinch the crust together to seal. Bake seam side down for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow the bread to cool for 5-10 minutes before slicing.

Sauce

  1. In a small bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, ketchup, salt, and pepper.
  2. Dip the sliced bread into the sauce, if desired.

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107 comments on “Garbage Bread”

  1. has anyone tried freezing the leftovers? or making smaller individual sizes and freeing after baking? Thanks!

  2. I have been eyeing this recipe. I love that it can be changed so easily. I didn’t plan out anything for dinner tonight ahead of time and I am going to make this. Homemade pizza dough (because it is cheaper to make than buy plus no trip to the store). Looks like a great fridge buster kinda meal. I will be using what I have on hand while hoping to please my hungry bunch. Also it seems like it will travel well. We eat dinner at our church on Wednesday so that our whole family can be together for dinner. I’ll let you know what I do to it and how the family likes it!

  3. Lois Boudreaux

    I made my bread dough and while rising I cook beef and ground pork with onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic and a seeded jalapeño pepper if I have one. Add some diced tomatoes and cook till meat is no longer pink. Let cool. Grate mozzarella, pepper jack and cheddar. Roll out dough, spread meat over bread, sprinkle good amount cheese and roll up like a jelly roll. Put roll on cookie sheet and let rise for about 1 1/2 hours then bake at 350 for 45 to 60 minutes. Brush with butter. Let cool for 20 to 30 minutes then slice. Store bread in zip lock bags in frig. Reheat in microwave a few minutes to warm up. In Louisiana we call this sausage bread. I will try with pizza dough also. If you do not make bread use the frozen yeast bread dough.

  4. I have made something similar to this with ham and cheese, but I sliced beforehand and baked it like that. Is this possible with this recipe?

    1. Like pinwheels? You could do that! They might not slice up very pretty, as the filling is warm when you bake it, but it would work!

  5. I have made something similar to this with ham and cheese, but I sliced beforehand and baked it like that. Is this possible with this recipe?

    1. What a mess, the pizza crust stuck to the paper, couldn’t get it to roll cause of the sticking. This is why I don’t use parchment paper. I have maybe afew inches of dough covering the meat mixture on both ends, other than that, it mostly all open in the middle. Very tastee though. Just don’t think I’l be taking to my party.

  6. Throw in some diced dill pickles and it’s a full on hamburger. LOL Reading a few of the reviews, I think we all agree that this recipe can be changed to whatever taste you feel like having. Thanks. . . . . now I need to make this!!!

  7. Can I use regular classic crust instead of thin? I have three cans on hand and wanted to make sure??

  8. After reading the great reviews for this I decided to make it for dinner. What a huge mistake!! Maybe it was the Velveeta, which we never eat, but the bread was very salty and I added no extra salt. Recipe went right into the garbage along with the remains of the bread. Definitely not a hit in my house.

    1. very strange it would be so salty… the only seasoning added is Steak Seasoning… can I ask what brand you used?

      1. I have some of the McCormick 25% less sodium Montreal Steak. I don’t use it much. I do note that even this variant, salt is the first ingredient. When I make a base like this, I usually just use ground cumin, garlic powder, and a little chili powder. That may work as a lower salt substitute.

        1. You need to revise your recipe to let people know exactly what steak seasoning you use. I had my hands on McCormick but then bought weber steak and chop seasoning. I’m just starting to cook this for dinner right now and don’t know what is going to taste like.

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