Strawberry Stuffed French Toast is one of our favorite weekend breakfasts for slow mornings. It comes together fast too.
We all have it, the under used, under appreciated appliance. Ours just happens to be the Betty Crocker Stuff-n-Munch. I was feeling a bit of guilt for being out of town over Valentine’s Day, so I thought nothing says “I love you”, like a little stuff-n-munch. We typically use this little sandwich maker for just regular grilled cheese sandwiches, but this time around it was made for Strawberry Stuffed french toast! It was delicious, and so easy! It’s perfect for Stuffed French Toast because it keeps the strawberries and sweet cream cheese inside while the outside gets golden brown.
Ingredients:
- 6 slices white bread
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 small container fresh strawberries washed, trimmed and sliced
- For the Sweetened Cream Cheese:
- 1/2 package cream cheese (4oz.)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- powdered sugar *optional garnish
How to make Strawberry Stuffed French Toast:
- Make the Sweetened Cream Cheese:
With your hand mixer or stand mixer, mix together the cream cheese, heavy cream, sugar and vanilla until smooth. - Prepare the strawberries: wash, trim and slice them.
- Make the French Toast:
- In a large bowl mix together the eggs and milk. Once combine, pour into a glass pie plate for easy dipping.
- If using a sandwich maker, plug it in to let it warm up. (If using a skillet, let it warm up and lightly grease it with butter.)
- Assemble the bread slices with a spread of the sweetened cream cheese on the inside of each slice. Place the sliced strawberries on one half of the sandwich. With the the two pieces of bread together like a sandwich, dredge both sides of the bread into the egg mixture.
- Lightly spray the sandwich maker with nonstick cooking spray. Working two sandwiches at a time, add them to the preheated sandwich maker to cook.
- Serve with powdered sugar, syrup and more fresh strawberries.
More Ways to serve Stuffed French Toast:
You can choose to serve this stuffed with just the sweetened cream cheese filling and then serve it with different things. Here are some of the ways we like to enjoy it:
- Buttermilk Syrup
- Fresh Berries: raspberries, blueberries, blackberries or strawberries
- drizzle of honey
- maple syrup
- cinnamon sugar mixture
- candies sliced nuts like almonds or pecans
- banana slices
What kind of bread is best for French Toast:
You can really make french toast with any kind of bread, but we have found that brioche, challah or french bread all make really good french toast. We have found that even the cheapest white bread works great for French Toast. The trick is to not let the bread sit in the egg and milk mixture too long to get too soggy. Quickly dredge each side of the bread before cooking.
Strawberry Stuffed French Toast
Take french toast to the next level by stuffing it with fresh strawberries and sweetened cream cheese.
Ingredients
- 6 slices white bread
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 small container fresh strawberries washed, trimmed and sliced
- powdered sugar *optional garnish
For the Sweetened Cream Cheese:
-
1/2
package
cream cheese
(4oz.) - 1/2 cup heavy cream
-
1/4
cup
sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
Make the Sweetened Cream Cheese:
-
With your hand mixer or stand mixer, mix together the cream cheese, heavy cream, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
-
Prepare the strawberries: wash, trim and slice them.
Make the French Toast:
-
In a large bowl mix together the eggs and milk. Once combine, pour into a glass pie plate for easy dipping.
-
If using a sandwich maker, plug it in to let it warm up. (If using a skillet, let it warm up and lightly grease it with butter.)
-
Assemble the bread slices with a spread of the sweetened cream cheese on the inside of each slice. Place the sliced strawberries on one half of the sandwich. With the the two pieces of bread together like a sandwich, dredge both sides of the bread into the egg mixture.
-
Lightly spray the sandwich maker with nonstick cooking spray. Working two sandwiches at a time, add them to the preheated sandwich maker to cook.
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Serve with powdered sugar, syrup and more fresh strawberries.
Recipe Notes
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This makes a sweet breakfast for your Valentine. ❤️
You’ll have to try using your Stuff and Munch sandwich maker for breakfast! Or try making French Toast with your waffle iron.
More Breakfast Recipes we Love:
–Crepes
–Overnight French Toast
–German Pancakes
Do you like bread pudding? It’s kind of like French Toast in that you take bread and soak it in an egg/milk and cream mixture. It’s one of our favorite desserts, and it would make a decadent breakfast. Here’s some of our favorite bread pudding recipes:
–Croissant Bread Pudding
–Bread Crust Bread Pudding (with chocolate chips)
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Original Publish Date: 2/9/2009 – Post Updated: 4/20/2020
How delicious! I gave my son one of those for Christmas last year and I don’t think it ever made it out of the box. Tells you what kind of mom I am!
Jen
That looks fabulous! Can you give us details? My mouth is watering already!
Oh my heavens Kami. Is there anything you dont do. Seriously. YOu are amazing. Have a fun getaway weekend.
I would marry you and let you leave for Valentine’s Day weekend if you made me those.
P.S. My quesadilla maker is under the counter, shivering in the dark.
How sweet! No, I don’t stuff and munch, but I do quesadilla and smoothie. And need to do it more often!
i don’t but i think i will.
i want those cupcake mats too.
We have the “Snackster” or something. Anyways, it’s actually one of my fav appliances. It makes grilled cheese SOO easy and quick. I haven’t tried the stuffed french toast though. I’m totally going to. Thanks!
PS
Where are you going to get away??? Have a great time and I KNOW, we HAVE to plan something…soon…I am pretty open except for Wednesdays…
i want one of those! that looks yummy. we actually use all of our silly appliances. we have a quesadilla maker and a cocomotion and we use those like there is no tomorrow:)
Wow that looks delicious! I wanna go buy one now.
my husband would only want me to “stuff-n-munch” if it was of a sexual nature. (typical.)
but, after seeing those photos, i’ve gotta get me one. PRONTO.
what’s the plan? call me
I have never stuff and munched before…
BUT I MIGHT NOW!!
Perhaps I should come over and you can cook for me – just so I can make sure it tastes good….
Wow that looked great!
I don’t stuff-n-munch, but I want to now!
I don’t stuff in munch but I’m going to have to start! That looks amazing:)
That looks de-lish!
Oh… that looks so good! I don’t have one of those but I just might need to go find one.
I have to say that I have never stuff ‘n munched before but now I am tempted to try. Where might you be going this weekend? Somewhere fun?
I wish! It looks de-light-ful!
Justin and I would not have survived our first year without ours! We would put pizza sauce and a little ham and cheese and- viola! Gourmet newlywed pizza 🙂
Yours looks much better!
Those look so yummy, I am going to have to try that out Saturday morning. THanks for the great idea!!! I look at your blog every so often and I need to check in more often you’ve done way too many posts since I was last year. It’s taken me a while to catch up and I need to go to bed.
You are amazing. How do you do that???
I have never seen one of these…i know, i live under a rock. I have a panni maker, bit I doubt that will work on these. Looking at all that yumminess makes me want to go find one.
thanks for posting this. Ours was used a lot YEARS ago, but I will want to re-invent it now!!
Hi everyone, My wife loves this little machine, but I, her husband, got burned beyond belief by it. It was on the counter top and I went to move it; when I touched it’s caser with my hand I could hear my skin sizzling. The adrenaline shot through my body, I ran to the sink to cool my hand it with water. Wow, I seriously burned five fingers. I noted later the machine says on a small sticker “caution sides are hot” WOW, not big enough to really show the danger here. I put my heat thermometer on the machine and 5 minutes after it was unplugged it was showing 180 degrees on the cabinet. Our model looks different than the one you are using, so maybe they fixed the problem. I just want everyone to be aware These machines are dangerous, I felt as if I had stuck my hand in a hot iron skillet by just touching the case. It would be very dangerous to kids and ….. unawares husbands.
Could this recipe work with a panini maker?
Sure!
You don’t need a machine to make one, although I’m sure it’s yummy. I make cream cheese stuffed french toast all the time just in my frying pan. Cream cheese in the middle of 2 slices of bread, then put it in the egg mixture, and then straight onto the pan. It’s amazing! Just thought that might help all the people who don’t own one! 🙂
Oh my gosh, how easy is that. I want one of those!
I made this for breakfast on our last day of weekend camping and they are delicious! The only thing I did differently was using an electric skillet since I forgot to pack our sandwich maker. We had one left over, which I ate cold after we got home and it was still yummy! I’ll definitely be making these again!