Stuffed French Toasts

I'd heard about stuffed french toast a long time ago, but I'd never found a bread that I thought would work so I kinda forgot about it. Then a few weeks ago I was in the grocery store and I found a really nice, plump, soft fresh-baked french bread. I brought one home and made toast and sandwiches, which were great, but once I'd tasted this bread I knew I'd found the bread I'd been looking for. So I went back to the grocery store the next day and got two more loaves and set to work.

I've made regular french toast lots of times so the question was what to use as a filling. I wanted something sweet and creamy  so I decided to combine the organic strawberry preserves I always keep on hand with some cream cheese. It was a perfect combination. Everybody at home went nuts for it and we ended up overeating a bit! It's very rich so I don't do it often, but when I do, it's a major hit at my house and I'm sure it will be at yours too. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

3 eggs
half and half
Vanilla extract
Ground cinnamon
Strawberry preserves
Cream cheese spread
French bread

Procedure:

Mix the half and half with the eggs.
Add cinnamon.
Mix well.
Cut the bread in thick slices.
Make an incision in those slices.
Fill the incision with preserves.
Then fill with the cream cheese spread.
Heat a pan to medium heat with butter.
Dredge the slices in the mix and place them in the pan.
Once they're golden brown on both sides they're ready to serve.
They're delicious on their own.
But I like them even better with sausages and banana slices. Enjoy!

Mix the half and half with the eggs

Add cinnamon.

Mix well.

Cut the bread in thick slices.

Make an incision in those slices.

Fill the incision with preserves.

Then fill with the cream cheese spread.

Heat a pan to medium heat with butter.

Dredge the slices in the mix and place them in the pan.

Once they're golden brown on both sides they're ready to serve.

They're delicious on their own.

But I like them even better with sausages and banana slices.

Enjoy!!!!

Monkey Bread

It's no secret that I just love to make sweets! Making them takes away my stress, it's therapy. There are a lot of ways you can make monkey bread. The original recipe I found didn't add the icing on top, but the reality is that I wouldn't eat it without it. It tastes amazing! I made this recipe for my hubby and brother. Even though my husband, brother and I gorged ourselves, there were plenty of leftovers! It tasted amazing the next day cold from the fridge with a cup of coffee.  I will be making this as a dessert for Thanksgiving dinner this year. I really hope you guys enjoy making this and eating it as much as we did! Until the next one!!

Ingredients:

3 (16 oz packages) of refrigerated biscuits

2 sticks of unsalted butter

3/4 cups of sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

2 tsp of cinnamon

Icing:

You can find the icing recipe here!

Procedure:

Grease the bundt pan.

Open the refrigerated biscuits.

Cut the biscuits into quarters.

Put the sugar in a bowl.

Add the cinnamon.

Mix the sugar and the cinnamon.

Add the biscuit quarters to the mixing bowl.

Cover with plastic wrap. 

Shake the hell out of it!

Once mixed, put the biscuits into the bundt pan.

Melt the butter and the brown sugar together.

Once melted and mixed, pour the butter mixture over the biscuits. 

Make sure to pour all of the butter/sugar mixture!

Add any sugar/cinnamon that's left in the mixing bowl over the top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Take it out of the oven.

Enjoy the marvelous smell of sugar and cinnamon that will invade your kitchen!

After 3 minutes put a plate over the monkey bread.

 Flip it over.

Enjoy the view. I know you are tempted to try it out, but don't! 

Just wait a little bit.

Put the icing in a pipping bag and drizzle it all over the monkey bread.

Now enjoy!

Seriously, enjoy!! It's amazing!!

These were the left-overs!  

Breakfast Pancake Muffins

The other day I woke up with a mission. I was gonna make something special for breakfast, but what? I remembered someone posted something about making pancakes in a muffin pan. I love breakfast sausages too, so I decided to mix some pancake mix with sausage.  I still wanted something sweet though so I figured, why not have both? Sausage pancake cupcakes for breakfast and banana cupcakes to finish; they were great! The savory and sweet worked great together, and drizzled with a little maple syrup on top they were delicious. My husband and son devoured them. I'm sure they will help get you out of your boring breakfast routine so give them a try!

Until the next one!


Ingredients:

1 Package of pancake mix
Water
Ground cinnamon (to taste)
Vanilla extract (to taste)
1 Banana
3 Breakfast Sausages

Grease the muffin pan with non-stick spray.

Cut the bananas.

Cut the sausages and cook them in water.

Prepare the pancake mix according to the directions on the package. 

I prefer adding some ground cinnamon and vanilla extract to the mix.

Divide the mix into two bowls.

Add the cooked sausage to one.

Add the bananas to the other.

Pour the mix into the muffin pan.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, or until golden.

Once done... 

Pour on the hot maple syrup.

Now, enjoy!

It's so good, keep enjoying!