Olive Garden Breadsticks, Pizza Hut Cheesesticks

Ingredients:

Hardware:
stand-mixer / bread-maker
food processor
baking sheet
brush

Ingredients:

Olive Garden: butter, flour, sugar, salt, yeast, kosher salt, garlic powder

Pizza Hut breadsticks: same + grated parmessan, black pepper, herbs

Pizza Hut cheesesticks: same + mozzerella

Olive Garden

In your stand-mixer or breadmachine, mix together:
1 1/3 cups of water
4 tsp soft butter
4 cups of flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
2 tsp yeast

Step 1:

Then, roll it out into a log and divide it into 16 pieces.

Roll these pieces into cigar-shaped sticks of bread.
Arrange on a baking sheet.

Step 2:

Cover, and let rise for 45 minutes.

Step 3:

Preheat your oven to 400*F.

Use your brush to butter each stick, saving some butter for later. Sprinkle with kosher salt.

Step 4:

Cook for 15 minutes.

Remove, then brush twice more and add another sprinkling of kosher salt and a light sprinkle of garlic powder.

Tada! Olive Garden breadsticks.

Step 5:

What about Pizza Hut? Do this:
in a food processor, mix:
1/3 cup of parmessan cheese
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp herbs (it's for the green, I used Italian Pizza Seasoning)
1/2 tsp garlic powder

Step 6:

Then shake these onto your breadsticks to your liking (don't overpower the sticks though)

Cheesesticks? Sprinkle shredded mozerella onto the tops, then pop under the broiler until the cheese bubbles and burns a bit. Good stuff.

Want to make it LOOK, not just taste, like their sticks?

Step 7:

Dip ideas: marinara, ranch, or honey.