Peanut Butter & Banana Stuffed French Toast

Submitted by Alan Leonetti

"This makes into a DELICIOUS BREAKFAST or BRUNCH!!! Don't laugh, if you never had the combination of peanut butter and banana, just try it."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 3

ingredients

• 6 slices day old white bread or 6 slices whole wheat bread
• 1 -2 ripe banana
• 8 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
• honey (for drizzling)
• 4 eggs
• 1⁄4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon rum
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 dash salt (1/8 teaspoon or less)
• butter (for frying)
• powdered sugar (for topping)
• maple syrup (for topping)

directions

1. Remove crust from bread.
2. Lay bread out on a cookie sheet or on a piece of wax paper.
3. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on each slice of bread.
4. Peel banana and slice enough to cover every other piece of bread (3 slices).
5. Drizzle a small amount of honey on each piece of bread that does not have a banana on it.
6. (These are the tops).
7. Place the honey drizzled pieces of bread on top of the pieces with the bananas to make 3 sandwiches.
8. In a shallow medium sized bowl, gently whip by hand the eggs, cream, vanilla, rum, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
9. Heat skillet to medium heat, or until butter melts and begins to sizzle.
10. Dip 1 sandwich at a time into egg batter and place into skillet.
11. Cook until golden brown (about 3 to 4 minutes) and then turn to cook other side until that side is also golden brown.
12. Remove from skillet and cut each sandwich in half diagonally.
13. Top with butter, maple syrup and powdered sugar.