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Stuffed French toast

Name: Stuffed French toast
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 thick slices white bread; 1/2 cup softened cream cheese; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries; 3 egg; 2/3 cup milk; 1/2 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); a pinch cinnamon powder; 2 tbsp butter; 3 tbsp to serve maple syrup

French toast with a secret: a creamy strawberry pocket hiding in the middle.

30 minTime

15 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

530kcal

15 gprotein

3 gfibre

30minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

White bread8 thick slices

Cream cheese½ cup, softened

Sugar2 tbsp

Strawberries1½ cups, sliced

Egg3

Milk⅔ cup

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)½ tsp

Cinnamon powdera pinch

Butter2 tbsp

Maple syrup3 tbsp, to serve

Method

5 steps

1Beat the cream cheese with 1 tbsp sugar until smooth.
2Spread it over 4 slices of bread, leaving a small border. Lay strawberry slices on top and cover with the remaining bread, pressing the edges gently.
3Whisk the eggs, milk, remaining sugar, vanilla and cinnamon in a wide dish.
4Heat half the butter in a pan on medium low. Dip a sandwich in the custard for 10 seconds per side and fry 3 minutes per side.
5Repeat with the remaining butter and sandwiches. Cut in half diagonally and serve with the remaining strawberries and maple syrup.

Serve it like this

Stack two diagonal halves cut side out to show the filling, scatter strawberries around and drizzle with maple syrup.

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Stuffed French toast

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