This recipe for stuffed french toast is buttery brioche bread dipped in batter and cooked to a golden brown, then sandwiched with a delectable cream cheese, raspberry and almond filling. Finish this brunch delight with a drizzle of syrup for an unforgettable mid-day delight!
This is one of my favorite french toast dishes along with french toast casserole and pumpkin churro french toast sticks. It’s time to try a new kind of french toast!
What’s better than breakfast or lunch? Brunch of course! I love to host brunch because it’s a fun departure from the usual meals of the day. I often do a brunch for for special occasions like Mother’s Day, New Year’s Day or even festive Saturdays.
One of the great things about planning a brunch menu is that you can include both sweet and savory fare. This cream cheese stuffed french toast is most definitely on the sweet side and it is an easy, yet decadent addition to the meal. I like to pair this french toast with savory breakfast recipes like ham and egg cups, hash brown egg casserole and sausage casserole.
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Stuffed French Toast Ingredients
To make this stuffed french toast recipe you will need large eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, brioche bread and butter. For the filling you will need cream cheese, powdered sugar, fresh raspberries and chopped almonds. You may want to garnish the french toast with more raspberries, chopped almonds, maple syrup and mint sprigs. See the recipe card below for amounts and details.
How Do You Make Stuffed French Toast?
To make this recipe, start with making french toast. In a large bowl whisk together eggs milk, sugar and vanilla extract. Heat your griddle or skillet and melt butter on the griddle. Dip your bread in the egg mixture and place it on the griddle. Cook it on both sides until done. As you cook the french toast, make the filling by placing softened cream cheese in a bowl and beating it until fluffy. Mix in powdered sugar and beat until combined. Assemble your stuffed french toast by laying a piece of toast on a plate and topping it with filling, raspberries and almonds. Next add another piece of toast on top of the filling. Garnish with maple syrup, more filling, almonds, raspberries and a mint sprig and enjoy!
Tips For The Perfect Stuffed French Toast
- I used brioche bread but challah or any other egg bread would also be great. You could also use a fluffy French bread or Texas toast.
- Feel free to purchase pre-chopped almonds or chop your own almonds.
- I cut slices of french toast diagonally across the middle because I think it makes for a much prettier presentation.
- You can either spread the sweet cream cheese filling between the slices of french toast with a knife or load the filling into a pastry bag to pipe it on. Either way will be equally delicious!
Quick Tip
You can use any chopped almonds; however, I often used honey roasted chopped almonds for a little extra flavor.
Recipe FAQs
Typically stuffed french toast has a sweet cream cheese filling.
Restaurants often use brioche bread for french toast. They may also use challah bread or Texas toast.
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Flavor Variations
While this stuffed french toast recipe is delicious, you can change the flavors to suit your taste.
- Chocolate: Feel free to add mini chocolate chips to the filling or you can drizzle a little chocolate syrup over the top.
- Nuts: You can make this dish without nuts or substitute chopped walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts or your other favorite nuts.
- Peanut butter and jelly: Instead of a cream cheese filling you could top your french toast with a layer of peanut butter and jam.
- Nutella: You could add a later of Nutella to your french toast sandwich.
- Berries: Feel free to use your favorite fresh berries like blackberries, blueberries and sliced strawberries.
Cream cheese stuffed french toast is such a unique dish because it takes a familiar favorite and dresses it up in a way that’s impressive yet totally easy to make! Everyone will think you spent hours in the kitchen creating this dish when it really only takes about 30 minutes. You don’t even need to wait for a special occasion to make cream cheese stuffed french toast – sometimes I make it on a regular old Saturday for a special treat that my whole family loves.
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Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast with Almonds
Ingredients
For the french toast
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 slices of brioche bread (can substitute challah or a different type of egg bread)
- 2 tablespoons butter
For the filling
- 8 ounces of cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
- 1/2 cup chopped almonds
For serving
- 1/2 cup raspberries
- 1/4 cup chopped almonds
- maple syrup
- Optional garnish: mint sprigs
Instructions
- Whisk together the eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla.
- Preheat a griddle to medium.
- Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter on the griddle.
- Soak 4 slices of bread in the batter and place on the griddle. Cook for 3-4 minutes on each side or until cooked through.
- Wipe the griddle clean with a paper towel and repeat the process with the remaining tablespoon of butter and 4 slices of bread.
- While the french toast is cooking, make the cream cheese filling.
- Place the cream cheese in a bowl and beat with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and beat until combined.
- Cut the slices of french toast in half diagonally.
- On 4 plates place 1 slice of french toast. Top each slice of toast with approximately 1-2 tablespoons of the cream cheese filling, then top with 2 tablespoons of raspberries and 1 tablespoon of almonds.
- Place the second piece of french toast on top of each stack. Repeat with remaining french toast.
- Garnish each stack with approximately 1 tablespoon of chopped almonds, 2 tablespoons of raspberries and remaining cream cheese filling. Top with mint sprigs if using. Serve with maple syrup.
Notes
- I used brioche but challah or any other egg bread would also be great. You could also use a fluffy French bread or Texas toast.
- You can use any chopped almonds; however, I often used honey roasted chopped almonds for a little extra flavor.
- Feel free to purchase pre-chopped almonds or chop your own almonds.
Thank you, Sara, for this fantastic recipe. My family raved about it and asked me to make it frequently. Based on the ingredients I had on hand, I used Neuchatel cheese instead of cream cheese and honey roasted pistachios instead of almonds, and I cut up and macerated fresh strawberries in place of the raspberries. For the first time ever, I finally was able to evenly coat my brioche slices in the egg mixture. After I mixed up the egg mixture, I poured it into a rimmed baking sheet, and placed the 8 brioche slices on the rimmed sheet and periodically flipped the slices. I tried to pipe the Neuchatel cheese mixture, and I learned that the #5 tip is too small and slow, so I spread it on with a small spatula. Next time I’ll try a larger tip.
I used Orowheat Country White bread for this recipe, because it’s what I had on hand. I didn’t use almonds, and I used strawberries. But this breakfast always reminds me of a B&B breakfast. It’s fast, easy, and delicious and such a special treat.
These French toast look so good Sara! Thanks for sharing this recipe
This looks like the kind of fancy breakfast you usually have to go to a restaurant to enjoy – I wouldn’t have guessed it’s so easy to make! I’m a huge fan of French toast, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve had a stuffed version.
Wow! This is awesome 🙂 My family would be ever so impressed if I set this down in front of them. Beautiful!!
WOW these french toasts look wonderful Sara!!. My french toast are usually so boring and straightforward. This would be perfect for a relaxing brunch
This looks wonderful and I am a fan of the Blue Diamond almonds!
Brioche makes the BEST French toast — and Blue Diamond makes everything better 🙂
This is a dream breakfast come true! I would be thrilled to have this for dinner as well. Lunch too. It’s beautiful and looks incredibly delicious!
That looks incredible. The cream cheese filling with almonds would be amazing.
I am just drooling over this amazing looking french toast! Your photos are amazing and we love Blue Diamond Almonds!