Friday, February 11, 2011

Blueberry Stuffed French Toast

Ok, so I know we're generally all about eating healthy, so two, though decadently delicious, mega cream cheese posts in a row might seem a little odd, but have you SEEN that enormous block of cream cheese we scored for a super low price?  Can you really blame us?

You'll need:

16 slices of your fav bread (may we suggest something whole grain?)
8 oz. cream cheese (softened or lightly whipped with that sweet mixer you have)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup (please steer clear of "pancake syrup" and all of its high fructose corn syrup)
3 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon
salt (We'll talk about measurements in a bit.)
1/4 cup dried blueberries (You can probably use fresh, but those are unavailable to us here--lame, I know.)
1 cup milk
3 eggs
1/4 cup flour
2 tsp. baking powder
butter or oil for greasing

Let's start with the filling:
1.  Mix together cream cheese, brown sugar, maple syrup, 1 tsp. of vanilla, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt until it's all smooth.
2.  Stir in blueberries.
3.  Boom. Done with the filling.

Evenly-sized globs--very technical term, here.
Now to prepare those toasts:
1. Put evenly sized globs of filling on half of the pieces of bread.
2. Spread out the filling on each piece and top it with a second slice of bread making a "sandwich."

To the coating and the cooking:
1.  Wisk together milk, eggs, flour, baking powder, 2 tsp. vanilla, and 1/4 tsp. salt.
2.  Dunk each "sandwich" in the coating and flip it around a few times.  (Think covered, not soggy.)
3.  Let the excess coating drip off.  Put them on a greased skillet and brown them on the stove. (At the advising of one of our favorite cooks, Amy Renfroe, we registered a double griddle for our wedding.  Best. idea. ever.)
Browned, not burnt, mmk?
4.  Flip them over to brown on the other side.  This really shouldn't take very long.
5.  Place the browned toasts on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 5 minutes at 350 F.
6.  Make them appear restaurant-quality dust with powdered sugar if you like.  Eat, eat eat!

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