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    Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

    April 13, 2009 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 38 Comments

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    cream cheese stuffed french toast

    When eggs are on sale for $.88/dozen for the Easter holiday and you score a LARGE loaf of pre-sliced French bread for less than $1, you just can’t pass up making a stuffed French toast dish! And with milk on sale for $1/half gallon and cream cheese recently marked down. Plus, there have been some great fruit sales lately…so we’ll add some $.25 apples to this meal!

    A “simple”-y delicious meal!

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    Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

    Level up your next French Toast breakfast!
    Prep Time10 minutes
    Cook Time30 minutes
    Servings - 4 servings

    Ingredients 

    • 10 eggs
    • 1 cup milk
    • 1/8 cup favorite syrup
    • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
    • 12 slices French bread
    • 2 spotty bananas
    • 4 oz cream cheese
    • 4 granny smith apples
    • Syrup

    Instructions

    • In large bowl, whisk eggs and milk. Whisk in syrup and cinnamon.
    • In KitchenAid or using hand mixer, blend bananas and cream cheese until smooth and creamy. (I had frozen some cream cheese a few weeks ago. It doesn't thaw out into its original creamy texture, so I thought this would be a good meal for "thawed cream cheese." I used brown spotty bananas that were really ripe. Gave it a nice flavor!)
    • In 8x8 baking dish, pour about 1/2 cup of egg mixture into the bottom of the dish, just enough to cover the bottom. Place bread on top of egg mixture to cover as much of the dish as possible.
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    Filed Under: Bread Recipes, Breakfast Recipes, Budget Friendly Recipes, Eggs Recipes, Gluten Free Casein Free Soy Free Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes Tagged With: apples, bananas

    Comments

    1. PamperingBeki says

      April 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm

      I’m going to have to try this!!

      Reply
    2. Trish says

      April 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm

      sounds really good!

      Reply
    3. [email protected] Beauty and Bedlam says

      April 13, 2009 at 6:27 pm

      ok – too funny….I was going to post this on my blog today. 🙂 Maybe I’ll wait a week. I did strawberries – so yummy. 🙂

      Reply
    4. [email protected] says

      April 13, 2009 at 6:34 pm

      Oh Yum! My mouth is watering.

      Reply
    5. Sara says

      April 13, 2009 at 6:43 pm

      Your recipe sounds delicious! I’m going to make this for breakfast on Sunday. I love your blog!!!!

      Reply
    6. lesley says

      April 13, 2009 at 7:29 pm

      looks amazing…I’d make this for dinner…totally

      Reply
    7. Tammy says

      April 13, 2009 at 8:07 pm

      This sounds really good! My daugther have been making alot of cream cheese dishes lately. Thanks can’t wait to try this one!

      Reply
    8. Cottonpickinfarm says

      April 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm

      Yummy! Oh, my goodness!! Yummy!

      Cottonpickinfarm
      http://www.cottonpickinfarm.blogspot.com

      Reply
    9. Jen says

      April 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm

      This sounds so good! I’ll have to try it this week!

      Reply
    10. AmandaLP says

      April 13, 2009 at 11:32 pm

      How does cream cheese work after thawing? Can you use it still as a cream base for sauces and such?

      Reply
      • Erin says

        April 14, 2009 at 7:03 am

        Cream cheese does not thaw to the same original creamy consistency. I would NOT recommend trying to make a cheesecake after thawing it. Using it for recipes like this one, or in a sauce should not be a problem!

        Reply
    11. Vanessa says

      April 14, 2009 at 12:19 am

      I posted a recipe on Habichuelas con Dulce (Sweet Beans), I know you lived in DR so I though you might enjoy it! 🙂
      Love your blog!

      Reply
    12. Tracy says

      April 14, 2009 at 12:57 am

      Yum! This sounds great, if I wasn’t so tired I would go start some for tomorrow…maybe this weekend.

      Reply
    13. astrid says

      April 14, 2009 at 6:21 am

      Funny…I’ve got some leftover bread, lots of eggs, bananas that need to be used and some cream cheese….Perfect recipe! 🙂

      Reply
    14. gourmetmomma says

      April 14, 2009 at 8:11 am

      yum. those look wonderful. i do ours with peanut butter, but it’s not a make-ahead version. http://gourmetmomma.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/peanut-butter-stuffed-french-toast/

      Reply
    15. Amy in OHio says

      April 14, 2009 at 8:31 am

      This looks yummy! Question, how many would you say the recipe would serve? Thinking of making it for Mother’s Day Brunch…

      Reply
    16. Christine says

      April 14, 2009 at 10:37 pm

      I am making this tonight for breakfast tomorrow. I don’t know how you fit it in a 8×8 pan. I had to use a 9×13! I will try to remember to come back and let you know how we liked it.

      Reply
      • Erin says

        April 15, 2009 at 8:13 am

        Christine,
        I might have used less bread than you!?! Using more bread can definitely stretch this a little further!
        -Erin

        Reply
    17. Emily from Mommin It Up says

      April 15, 2009 at 8:11 am

      YUM that looks great! Definitely storing that one in the archives. Thanks Erin!

      Reply
    18. Christine says

      April 15, 2009 at 8:42 am

      Just got done eating….YUMM! This is definitely a keeper. Thank you for posting this. I have 5 kids and it fed us all with leftovers, using the 9×13 pan at least 😉

      Reply
    19. Johanna says

      April 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm

      I’m not a big fan of bananas. Do you think raspberries or bueberries would work as a substitute?

      Reply
    20. Thrifty Living Mom says

      April 16, 2009 at 9:33 am

      We are giving this a try tonight for dinner—mmm! Thank you!

      Reply
    21. Melanie says

      April 18, 2009 at 11:03 am

      Oh, yum!

      Reply
    22. Bibiana Bailey says

      April 19, 2009 at 6:36 pm

      Sounds really good, I will try to make it with special raisin bread from our local German bakery.

      Reply
    23. Diane says

      April 21, 2009 at 3:34 pm

      Looks easy and tasty.
      I use previously frozen cream cheese in everything, especially cheesecake. And my cheesecakes are always good. It just doesn’t look pretty for spreading on bagels.

      Reply
    24. Catherine says

      April 22, 2009 at 7:37 am

      Are you using the whipped cream cheese, soft cream cheese or the bar of cream cheese?

      Reply
      • Erin says

        April 22, 2009 at 3:19 pm

        Bar of cream cheese

        Reply
    25. jubilee says

      April 28, 2009 at 6:02 pm

      Tried this for dinner tonight and loved it. I even messed it up and it turned out delish. I was chatting with kids and letting them “help” and we added an extra layer of bread and twice the cream cheese. Obviously, I am not a multi-tasker.

      Next time I am trying strawberry cream cheese and fresh strawberries.

      Thanks for the recipe!

      Reply
      • Erin says

        April 28, 2009 at 6:06 pm

        Great! That strawberry cream cheese combo sounds delish! Great idea!!!

        Reply
    26. gourmetmomma says

      May 4, 2009 at 10:20 pm

      erin, i made this last friday for our mops group. it was delish! http://gourmetmomma.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/stuffed-french-toast-casserole/

      Reply
    27. Erika White says

      March 7, 2010 at 10:40 pm

      I was wondering if this recipe would work w/ just a loaf of reg bread? I don’t have french bread on hand!

      Reply
      • Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom says

        March 8, 2010 at 9:10 am

        @Erika White,

        Absolutely!!!

        Reply
    28. Tanya says

      May 14, 2011 at 8:15 pm

      Okay I have looked at many of your $5 dinner/breakfast recipes and I don’t know where you live but here in Canada, Ontario nothing is that cheap, nothing! One dozen eggs are over $4. One pound of ground beef is usually over $4 unless you get lucky and get it on sale. So I would say for us in this part of the county maybe the 7 or 8 dollar meal. Oh and we don’t get weekly coupons. Anyhow good recipes though I will keep searching through them, thank you!

      Reply
    29. beth says

      January 25, 2015 at 7:40 pm

      Great idea but there NO WAY that you could get these items for that price. I know you divide some prices but lets get serious.

      Reply

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