Stuffed French Toast Recipe!

Last night I tried another recipe from Pioneer Woman, one that I had heard rave reviews about from my friends, Lacey and Jen! It was as delicious as they said, once I could get past the warm cream cheese factor!?! Just in case you are a lover of french toast as well, I thought I would share! (OH and here is the original recipe so you can see her amazing pictures of it!)

Stuffed French Toast

Ingredients
• 1 loaf French Bread
• 3 Tablespoons Any Flavor Fruit Spread (You Can Also Use Jelly, Jam, Or Fresh Fruit)
• ½ packages Cream Cheese (4 Oz), At Room Temperature
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
• ½ cups Skim Milk
• 2 Tablespoons Butter

Directions
Cut french bread into 2-3 inch wide slices. Then, with a paring knife, go back and cut halfway into each slice, in the center, creating a ‘pocket’ that your fruit mixture can be stuffed into.
In a bowl, place the room temperature cream cheese and three tablespoons of fruit spread of your choice. Combine well.

In a separate bowl, break 2 eggs; add cinnamon and milk and combine well. Now, take fruit mixture and stuff into the ‘pockets’ of your french bread slices. Place on a baking sheet. When done stuffing each piece of bread, completely coat each piece in egg mixture. Make sure all sides are covered. Do all pieces before starting to fry.

Put 2 tbsp (you can use less!) of butter into a hot skillet and melt completely. Add all of the bread to the skillet and cook roughly about 3-6 minutes on each side, until it reaches a nice golden brown. You want to make sure the cream cheese mixture heats through. When done cooking, serve immediately with butter and syrup.

Here are some pictures of my process! Look at all those cut strawberries! (they were on sale so I bought & cut a ton for me to eat during the week!)
Here is my cut bread with the filling stuffed in the pocket!
And the cinnamon/egg/milk mixture that you soak the bread in before cooking: (before I mixed it up of course)
The final outcome!
Delicious!