Stuffed French Toast Recipe with Raspberry Sauce

Around our house, breakfast is the favorite meal of the day.  Which is honestly a little weird because I've never really like breakfast.  In fact, I skipped it for most of my high school years.  Even now I don't love a huge breakfast unless it is late in the morning.  But I am outnumbered in my house.  

That means, I get to learn to make fun, nutritious and yummy breakfasts for my family.  Often that means eggs and bacon (my husband's favorite).  But if I'm going to eat breakfast, I like something sweet.  Which is how I came up with this yummy cream cheese stuffed french toast recipe.  

I became familiar with cream cheese stuffed french toast when my husband and I were first married (over 10 years ago).  We went to lunch a little diner that had a great breakfast menu.  On the menu was a yummy stuffed french toast recipe.  It was delicious!!  It had a nice thick bread, crisp outside and gooey inside.  I just knew I had to make the recipe myself.  So I did.

It took me a couple years and lots of experiments before I found the perfect cream cheese stuffed french toast combination.  It might sound silly, but to really make this recipe yummy, you'll want to use a quality cream cheese (I used Philadelphia cream cheese.)  You'll also want to pick a bread that has a little bit of form already and isn't to floppy.  (It's still good with floppy bread, but a good Texas type bread is a better choice.)

Combine the cream cheese, cream and cinnamon in a bowl and mix until it is really smooth.  The smoother the better.  You'll spread this right onto the bread and make it a sandwich.

Next, I'd make the raspberry sauce.  That way it has a chance to really become juicy with the sugar.  You could almost eat this all by itself.

One final tip, cook your cream cheese stuffed french toast on a medium to low heat.  Low and slow is better for the crispness of the toast and to help melt that gooey inside.

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Stuffed French Toast with Raspberry Sauce

prep time: 10 minscook time: 15 minstotal time: 25 mins

ingredients:

• 1 loaf of bread
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 c.  cream
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 c. milk
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 c. raspberries, fresh
• 1/4 c. sugar

instructions:

French Toast

1. Combine cream cheese, cream and cinnamon in a bowl.  Mix until creamy and spreadable.  
2. Spread a dollop of the cream cheese mixture onto a slice of bread.  Sandwich the second slice of bread to the cream cheese side.  Repeat until all the cream cheese mixture is gone.
3. Preheat skillet to medium heat.  
4. In bowl, combine egg, milk, nutmeg and vanilla.  Mix well.  
5. Dip sandwich into the egg mixture and place on greased skillet until brown.  Make sure to flip the sandwich half way through to brown both sides.
6. Serve warm and top with raspberry sauce.

Raspberry Sauce

1. Combine raspberries and sugar in a bowl.  Mash the raspberries with a fork.  Allow mixture to sit for 10-15 minutes before serving.

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