Berry-Stuffed French Toast Delicious cream-cheese and berry stuffed french toast. This breakfast meal is so good it’s pretty much guaranteed to keep you from wanting to eat any other type of french toast ever again!

Ingredients

Directions

Blend softened cream cheese, berries, and bananas in a bowl, set aside. Slice bread into thick (1 1/2"-2" slices) slices – I make my own light wheat bread for this but almost any country-style loaf will do.  I usually make a loaf the night before and let it sit (covered) overnight – if you’re an early bird you can make it in the morning and use fresh bread.

With a sharp knife, carefully cut a deep pocket into each slice of bread, keeping the opening on only one side.

Fill each bread slice with cream cheese mixture (pack it in there!) and stack onto a plate – chill until firm.

Beat the eggs in large bowl, add softened ice cream mixture, stir well (but gently, you don’t want it to be super foamy).

Heat butter in a skillet on medium heat.

Place stuffed bread into egg mixture, turn to coat.  Put coated bread into skillet, fry on top and bottom and then gently on all remaining sides (especially if bread is very thick)  until golden brown. It cooks quickly, be careful not to burn it! Add more butter if necessary between slices.

Serve with syrup (and a scoop of ice cream if you wish).

Notes:  If you want to get really fancy, you can slice the crust off the bread before filling – this will allow the egg mixture to soak into it better on all sides and make a thicker coating.  Be careful not to soak the bread too long, though, or you can get runny eggs that don’t cook up in the middle of the toast.

Enjoy!