Cream Cheese and Apple Stuffed French Toast

Well, we are now into our last official week of summer vacation and I am definitely not ready to see these summer days come to an end.  I know that there are still a few weeks left before the start of fall, but once school goes back, I really feel like summer has ended.   So with back to school looming, I decided to have an impromptu family brunch out on our patio this weekend and made up some of this yummy stuffed french toast…

With the apple topping it is almost like having apple pie for breakfast! 🙂

Ingredients

 Topping

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored, and sliced into thin strips
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Filling

• 1/2 cup cream cheese
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup

French Toast

• 8 slices of bread
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• butter

To Make
Topping
Melt the butter in a large nonstick pan on medium heat.  Add the apples and cook for 2-3 minutes.  Add the remaining topping ingredients and cook for an additional 5 minutes stirring occasionally.  Set aside.

Filling
Mix together the cream cheese and syrup and spread over 4 slices of bread.  Top with the remaining 4 slices to make a sandwich.

French Toast
Whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla and cinnamon in a shallow pan. Dip each sandwich in the egg mixture making sure to coat both sides.  Melt approximately 1 tbsp of butter in a large, nonstick pan on medium heat.  Add the sandwiches cooking for 3-4 minutes on each side until golden brown.  Top each sandwich with the apple mixture and serve.