Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Using a bread knife to cut bread into 1/2 pieces or smaller if desired. Cut enough bread to fill sheet cake pan.

Note: If using a long piece of French bread only cut up half of the bread. If you want to use the whole loaf make 2 batches of the oil mixture. If you are using ciabatta bread you will probably want to use the whole piece of bread.

Place bread on a foil lined 12×18 sheet cake pan evenly distributed and make sure no one piece is on top of the other. Bake bread for 5 minutes.

In a small bowl combine oil, salt and freshly ground pepper. I got this new pepper grinder for Christmas that grinds pepper just by turning it upside down. It’s a pretty cool gift!

Run garlic through a garlic press and add to oil mixture.

Remove bread from oven and drizzle oil mixture over chopped bread. Toss croutons until well coated.

Bake 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and toss croutons. Return to oven and bake 5 more minutes.

Remove from oven and allow to cool completely while on the baking sheet.

Serve garlic croutons with salad or just eat them as a snack!

Store croutons in a closed container. Enjoy!