You'll flip for this luscious French toast recipe, but your bread won't: slices bake together in one time-saving batch.
Cream Cheese French Toast Bake with Strawberry Topping
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 9 hr 0 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
French Toast Bake
- 1 container (8 oz) pineapple cream cheese spread
- 1 loaf (1 lb) French bread (about 18 inches long), cut into 24 (3/4-inch-thick) slices
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Topping
- 3 cups fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons amaretto, if desired
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
Instructions
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Step1Spray 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Spread about 1 tablespoon cream cheese on each of 12 bread slices. Top with remaining bread slices to make 12 sandwiches. Place sandwiches in baking dish to cover bottom of pan.
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Step2In medium bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, 1/4 cup sugar, the salt and cinnamon; beat well. Pour over sandwiches in baking dish. Let stand at room temperature 5 minutes. Turn sandwiches over. Cover; refrigerate about 8 hours or overnight.
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Step3Chop 1 cup of the strawberries. (Refrigerate remaining berries.) In nonmetal bowl, gently stir together chopped strawberries, 1/4 cup sugar and the amaretto. Cover; refrigerate about 8 hours or overnight.
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Step4Heat oven to 400°F. Uncover baking dish; drizzle sandwiches with melted butter. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.
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Step5Meanwhile, slice remaining strawberries and add with blueberries to chilled strawberry mixture; mix lightly. Serve French toast with berry topping.
Nutrition
530
Calories
22g
Total Fat
16g
Protein
68g
Total Carbohydrate
27g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 530
- Calories from Fat
- 200
- Total Fat
- 22g
- 34%
- Saturated Fat
- 12g
- 58%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 190mg
- 63%
- Sodium
- 880mg
- 37%
- Potassium
- 380mg
- 11%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 68g
- 23%
- Dietary Fiber
- 4g
- 17%
- Sugars
- 27g
- Protein
- 16g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 15%
- 15%
- Vitamin C
- 45%
- 45%
- Calcium
- 15%
- 15%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
2 1/2 Starch; 1/2 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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