Hot Bacon Cheese Bread Bowl Dip

1. Cut out a circle in the top of the bread and gut out the middle to make a bread bowl (save inside pieces of bread for dipping). 
2. In a mixing bowl beat cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and Worcestershire sauce. 
3. Then mix in bacon. Pour into the bread bowl.
4. Wrap up the whole thing in aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. Serve with extra bread pieces from bowl and crackers.

Tips for the Sourdough Bread Bowl

• It’s easy to find large sourdough bread loaves at your grocery store or bakery. You want it large enough to hold all the ingredients, so look for one that will hold about five cups of filling once hollowed out.
• If you don’t love sourdough bread, find a nice Italian bread round or honey whole wheat. Just make sure it’s crusty on the outside and tender on the inside so it can hold all the cheesy sauce without getting soggy.
• Use caution when removing the bread from inside the loaf; you’ll want to keep the walls of the bowl thick enough to hold the dip.
• Break up the extra bread into bite-sized pieces for easy dipping.
• You will definitely need more bread for dipping than what you hollow out from the sourdough loaf. You may want an extra loaf of bread, a sliced baguette, crackers, pita chips or even veggies to dunk along with the bread from the sourdough loaf.
• Garnish the dip with shredded cheddar cheese, extra bacon bits, fresh parsley or green onions.

Recipe from: favfamilyrecipes.com