Easy Cream Cheese French Toast made in two ways - Nutella french toast and Strawberry stuffed french toast will become your family's new favorite, especially for kids! Treat yourself to this delicious restaurant-quality breakfast.
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Ingredients
- Bread - best to use stale old bread.
- Strawberries and banana - choose your favorite fruit or berries but this is the ultimate combo that is most affordable and easy to make. Don't throw away the strawberry tops, read more about what you can do with them below in this post.
- Cream cheese - you can use both Philadelphia or Mascarpone cheese (I've used the last one in this recipe which is in my opinion best for sweet cream cheese french toast.)
- Cinnamon - adds a delicious flavor and darker color to plain bread slices. If you like using cinnamon I strongly encourage you to double the cinnamon in this recipe!
- Milk - Why do you put milk on French toast? To make a delicious and flavorful crust to a blunt bread slice, you'll need ideally both eggs and milk. These are the essential two ingredients that make a perfect French toast recipe. You can also make dairy-free french toast, please read the FAQ section below.
- Eggs - an essential ingredient for the French toast recipe. The eggs act as a ''binder'' that helps to solidify and firm up the liquids in bread. It results in a crunchy golden crust and helps the ''sandwich'' to keep its shape. Don't like eggs? Read my FAQ section for instructions on how to make French toast without eggs.
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Instructions
Slice the strawberries (reserve a few for garnish) in thin whole slices.
Add to a small bowl with a tablespoon of muscovado brown sugar, stir to coat the strawberries, and set aside while you prep the french toasts.
In a larger mixing bowl or in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, whisk together cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and kefir.
Mix until creamy. Set aside in the refrigerator.
In a large bowl enough size to dip each toast into, whisk together egg, milk and cinnamon.
French toast assembly. On an even surface or a large plate, smear about ⅔ of cream cheese mixture in total on each slice of bread (you’ll need to do this on both bread slices that make one toast sandwich).
Add Nutella to the remaining cream cheese mix, stir to combine, and smear on the bread.
Add strawberries and bananas on top.
Finish the French toast sandwich with another cream cheese bread slice on top.
Dip each sandwich in egg/milk mixture and cook on medium heat on a nonstick pan.
No oil is needed unless you have a good non-stick pan, cook the bread until golden brown.
Serve these yummy cream cheese french toast warm with berries, banana, powdered sugar and maple syrup/honey. Or go all in and top with your favorite chocolate or caramel sauce!
Tips and Variations
- Bread - I like to use Schar products. The texture and flavor are just amazing.
This one is by far my favorite (I often use different flours from the same brand too), it's a nice-sized piece of bread and great for toast and sandwiches. However, these are not the thickest bread slices that are most popular for stuffed French toast.
If you can’t find this particular brand available, other options can be used as well. Of course, it would be better to use a thicker slice but I found that with the right filling amount a slightly thinner slice can hold up the filling just fine. I just don’t like it when there’s too much bread going on that will outshine the tasty creamy filling. But it's my personal preference 🙂 Feel free to modify the recipe to your liking.
- Toppings - what is a French toast without toppings!? Chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, marshmallow fluff, chocolate chips or shredded chocolate, nuts, berries, fruits, maple syrup, honey, agave syrup and so much more you can always add here.
- When dipping the French toast sandwich into the egg/milk mixture, hold the bread in the middle and turn it around so all the corners are covered. Don't overdo it as the sandwich may fall apart quickly before even toasting it.
DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE STRAWBERRY TOPS
Always save strawberry tops - don’t throw them away! Here's what you can make with them:
- Make strawberry-infused water.
- Don’t have a plan to use those tops right now? Place them in an airtight container and keep them in the fridge for up to a few days, or in the freezer for a few months, then pull them out when you’re ready to use them.
- Another great way to use them is to infuse your favorite spirit with them (i usually keep them in my rum for few days).
- Add the tops to your favorite smoothies to get a little pink hue and hint of strawberries.
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Stuffed Cream Cheese French Toast (2 Ways!)
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INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup strawberries
- ½ of a whole banana medium
- 2 teaspoon Nutella or more
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 ½ tablespoon kefir
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla paste
- ½ cup milk
- 6 slices gluten free bread, any similar to toasts kind
- 1 teaspoon or more if you love cinnamon
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon brown muscovado sugar
- ½ cup berries for garnish
- Maple syrup or honey to drizzle over toasts
INSTRUCTIONS
- Slice the strawberries (reserve a few for garnish) in thin whole slices.
- Add to a small bowl with a tablespoon of muscovado brown sugar, stir to coat the strawberries, and set aside while you prep the french toasts.
- In a larger mixing bowl or in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, whisk together cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and kefir.
- Mix until creamy. Set aside in the refrigerator.
- In a large bowl enough size to dip each toast into, whisk together egg, milk and cinnamon.
- French toast assembly. On an even surface or a large plate, smear about ⅔ of cream cheese mixture in total on each slice of bread (you’ll need to do this on both bread slices that make one toast sandwich).
- Add Nutella to the remaining cream cheese mix, stir to combine, and smear on the bread.
- Add strawberries and bananas on top.
- Finish the french toast sandwich with another cream cheese bread slice on top.
- Dip each sandwich in egg/milk mixture and cook on medium heat on a nonstick pan.
- No oil needed unless you have a good non-stick pan, cook the bread until golden brown.
- Serve warm with berries, banana, powdered sugar and maple syrup/honey. Or go all in and top with your favorite chocolate or caramel sauce!
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NUTRITION
Note: Nutrition information is estimated and varies based on the products used.
Full Nutrition Disclaimer can be found here.
Recipe adapted from Homemade Hooplah
Greg Smith
This looks soooo good definitely will be trying this one well and I think alot of your other recipes
Julia | The Yummy Bowl
thank you, hope you love it!
Julia
Gluten free toasts are the real deal, choose whatever toppings but can't beat the strawberries in cream cheese!