Recipe for cooking stuffed cinnamon pecan french toast
Breakfast Recipes :: Waffles, Pancakes and French Toast
Stuffed Cinnamon-Pecan French Toast
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. chopped pecans
4 Tbsp. apple butter
8 slices cinnamon-raisin swirl bread
1/4 c. sugar
1 c. half-and-half or whole milk
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
2 Tbsp. melted butter
Extra butter to grease baking sheet
Powdered\sugar
Warm maple syrup
Combine cream cheese, pecans and apple butter. Spread evenly on one side of each slice of bread. Put bread slices together, cream cheese side to cream cheese side, to form a sandwich.
Beat together eggs and sugar. Beat in half-and-half, vanilla extract or flavoring and salt. Pour into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Place sandwiches into egg mixture and turn over several times. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for two hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter a baking sheet.
Using a large spatula, lift the sandwiches onto the greased baking sheet. Discard remaining egg mixture. Brush 1 Tbsp. melted butter over the sandwiches. Bake 10 min.. Turn, brush with remaining butter and bake 8 to 10 min. more until bread is puffed and golden brown. Sprinkle with confectioners\sugar.
Serve with warm maple syrup.
Serves 4.
sugar.
Serve with warm maple syrup.
Makes approximately4.
