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Soft brioche is filled with cream cheese and strawberry preserves to be a stunning and sweet morning treat.
When Bonne Maman, makers of fine preserves packaged with an iconic gingham lid, asked me to share a Mother’s Day recipe with you all I accepted because making a Mother’s Day meal for mom is a cause I can get behind. Maybe it’s because cooking is my love language, but I believe a thoughtful home cooked meal, made with love and shared around a table, inspires connection and, on Mother’s Day, isn’t that what our moms really want? 
Except some of us don’t live near our moms making that whole “cook a meal and share it”concept a little difficult. So, we lean on a greeting card to make up for it. We’re the ones in the card aisle at the grocery store, scanning the display with a quiet intensity in search of the perfect card. One that encapsulates, in a pithy poem, everything we want our moms to know that we can’t quite articulate ourselves. One that makes up for the distance, but, in my experience, most of the options fall short so I leave with a good-enough card.
And the card I’ll send my mom this year will travel exactly 1,701 miles from my house to hers. It’s a distance that’s somehow felt bigger during this past year that’s been pockmarked with personal challenges. We make up for the miles between us with frequent phone calls, emails and text messages, but with Mother’s Day around the corner that separateness feels all the more real.
But, she’s making plans to visit next fall and when she does I’ll pull this stuffed French toast recipe out and make it for her. She’ll protest, worried that I’m going to too much trouble. I’ll assure her I’m not and we’ll sit at my little table with the red chairs, mugs of hot coffee in hand and plates of stuffed French toast dusted with powdered sugar and a drizzle of syrup. We’ll fill the kitchen with our mother-daughter chatter and, after we’ve scraped our plates, she’ll insist on loading the dishwasher and I’ll pour us another cup of coffee.
I’ll send a card this week, but this year we’ll celebrate Mother’s Day in September.
This stuffed french toast made with soft slices of brioche, cream cheese, and strawberry preserves serves one and it’s the sort of thing that looks pretty on a tray along with a glass of fresh orange juice and a single flower in a vase. It conjures up the quintessential breakfast in bed image or what you might order at a countryside B&B. And while it might look high maintenance, it’s as easy as making a sandwich, a sweet sandwich that’s dredged it in a simple mixture of egg and milk before it’s lightly fried it in a pan coated with a thin layer of butter. Fresh strawberries, powdered sugar and syrup top it off.
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Strawberry Stuffed French Toast
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
Description
Soft brioche is filled with cream cheese and strawberry preserves to be a stunning and sweet morning treat.
Ingredients
- 2 slices brioche (lightly toasted (see note))
- 2 tablespoons whipped cream cheese
- 1 generous tablespoon strawberry preserves
- 1 egg (plus 1 egg yolk)
- 2 tablespoons 2% milk
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2–3 fresh strawberries (diced)
- Powdered sugar and maple syrup for serving
Instructions
- Spread the cream cheese and preserves on one slice of bread. Top with the other slice.
- Melt the butter in a non-stick pan over medium heat.
- Whisk the egg, milk, nutmeg, and vanilla in a shallow bowl or baking dish. Place the brioche sandwich in the mixture, and soak each side for 1 minute or so. Let the excess drip off before transferring to the hot skillet. Cook the french toast until it’s golden brown on both sides.
- Slice the french toast, top with strawberries, a dusting of powdered sugar and maple syrup.
Notes
The best french toast is made with day old bread that has lost a bit of it’s moisture, but, if you’re like me, you may not plan to have day-old brioche on hand when you want to make french toast. If that’s the case, lightly toasting the bread before dredging it in the egg mixture gets you the same result. It’s a handy short-cut.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
