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Blueberry Cream Cheese Stuffed Baked French Toast
photo by yogiclarebear
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 1 loaf white bread, no crusts
- 1⁄2 loaf French bread
- 6 cups fresh blueberries or 6 cups frozen blueberries, rinsed
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 7 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 1⁄2 cups half-and-half
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar
directions
- Cut white bread into cubes and place into the bottom of a greased 9x13 pan.
- Sprinkle blueberries evenly over bread.
- Microwave cream cheese in bowl for 2 minutes.
- Stir carefully and add 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup sour cream, and 1 teaspoons vanilla.
- Spread over blueberries.
- Cut French bread into 10-1 inch thick slices, place over cream cheese.
- Beat eggs, milk, half&half, cinnamon, and nutmeg and pour over bread.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes covered, then uncover for approximately 15 minutes.
- Let set before slicing.
- Sift powdered sugar over before serving.
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Reviews
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Thanks for the great recipe.Due to the ice storm I decided to try something new. This recipe is the ticket. I was not able to get out for fresh berries so I used Blueberry pie filling and omitted the sugars. Perfect for a cold morning. I did take more baking time. Next time I will take it out of the frig. and let sit at room temp. for awhile. Definetly a keeper!
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Awesome recipe! The only changes I made were reducing the amount of Blueberries down to four cups & using Blueberry cream cheese which made more sense to me. It was so delicious & very filling. Doesn't take much to really fill you up. This is a restaurant quality dish. Powdered sugar topping isn't necessary. No syrup needed either. It's perfect as is. Best recipe in my arsenal. You must try this!!!!!
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I made this twice this summer with fresh blueberries. It is SO GOOD! I did make a few changes to use what I had without a trip to the store. I left crusts on the bread and used a variety of partial loaves I had out, some raisen bread that was too dry to eat plain, some leftover sourdough and some regular sandwich bread. I had cream, no half and half, so used 1 cup cream and 2 cups milk. We used maple syrup instead of topping with powdered sugar. My kids loved this so much. Yesterday, I made it again using apples instead of blueberries. It too, was yummy. I used 6 cups of Granny Smith apples and sprinkled them with about 1/2 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon. Next time I will use a softer apple as they held their texture too well and we would have liked it better a little less "crunchy". I'm also going to try it with apples and blueberries (to make my frozen winter stash of berries go farther) We'll be creating new versions of this wonderful breakfast for a very long time. Thank you so much.
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I really have to re-review this wonderful dish. As I am now living in Finland, I think this would be wonderful made with finnish sweet bun loaf called "pulla", which is flavored with cardamom, instead of using bread. Also I would substitute the cream cheese with quark. The blueberries really need some sugar if not using blueberry pie filling. Great recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
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