Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast
Total Time
55 minutes
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
40 minutes
Rating
5 out of 5 stars
(13)
Ingredients
6 servings
- Butter (, for greasing)
- 250 g / 8oz cream cheese (, at room temperature)
- 1/3 cup sugar (white)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp milk (low fat or full fat)
- 3 tbsp sugar (white)
- Pinch of salt
- 12 fresh slices sandwich bread (crusts removed) (Note 1)
- 2 tbsp butter (, diced (optional) (Note 2)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar (optional) (Note 2)
- 1 punnet strawberries (, sliced)
- 1 tbsp sugar
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Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Generously butter a 10cm x 21cm / 4" x 8" loaf tin
Step 2
Make Cream Cheese Filling - beat (or mix) the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until combined. Then add the egg and lemon juice, then beat/mix until smooth, light and fluffy.
Step 3
Whisk the Egg Mixture ingredients together in a large bowl.
Step 4
Dip 2 slices of bread into the Egg Mixture. Because you're using fresh bread, it should soak through with egg mixture pretty quickly.
Step 5
Line the base of the loaf tin with the egg dipped bread. Cut bread if necessary to fill in gaps. Repeat twice more so you have 3 layers of egg dipped bread.
Step 6
Spread all the Cream Cheese filling over the bread. Then top with two more layers of egg-dipped bread.
Step 7
Dot surface with butter and scatter over the sugar.
Step 8
Bake for 40 minutes until golden and puffed. Check at 30 minutes - if the top is already dark golden, then cover loosely with foil and return to the oven to finish baking (this is what I did).
Step 9
Allow to rest for 15 minutes in the tin before turning out onto a cooling rack to rest for a further 5 minutes.
Step 10
To serve, topped with Macerated Strawberries.
Step 11
Macerated Strawberries
Step 12
Combine strawberries and sugar in a bowl and set aside to "sweat" for at least 20 minutes.
Step 13
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