How to Make Stuffed French Toast with Recipes from Simple to Fabulous Plus 21 French Toast Ideas

• Double Lemon Stuffed French Toast
• Toasted Pecan Crusted Cherry Stuffed French Toast
• Lou Ann’s Super Luscious Cinnamon Chip French Toast
• Apple Pie Stuffed French Toast
• Peanut Butter Banana (or Jam) Stuffed French Toast
• French Toast Sticks
• 21 More Stuffed French Toast Ideas

 

This article is about stuffed French toast. It’s made like a sandwich. Then the sandwich is dipped in an egg wish—like traditional French toast—and fried.

You can get your creative juices rolling with stuffed French toast. We’ll walk you through three examples of stuffed French toast and introduce you to Lou Ann’s Stuffed French Toast. Lou Ann’s stuffed French toast is both different and fabulous.

Double Lemon Stuffed French Toast

This is a quite simple French toast for lemon lovers. You can see it’s built like a sandwich: lemon stuffed between two slices of bread, dipped in an egg wash, and then cooked on a griddle.

We used lemon pastry filling but you can use a pie filling, pudding, or lemon curd. The cooking is the same except the heat should be turned down to give the heat time to soak through two slices of bread.

We used our lemon syrup mix which makes an exceptionally good lemon syrup-- tastes just like lemon pie. If you’re a lemon lover, this is the stuffed French toast for you.

 

Toasted Pecan Crusted Cherry Stuffed French Toast

This takes stuffed French toast one step further. In addition to having a filling between slices of bread, it has a crunchy outer coating. The egg-washed sandwich is pressed into pecan pieces until there is a nut coating front and back and then the French toast is cooked on the griddle until it is no longer soggy.

The heat toasts the pecans. So, you have a combination of tastes and textures: a soft bread custard, a cherry filling, and toasted pecans. That’s pretty good stuff.

For the cherry filling, you can use cherry pie filling, cherry jam, or cherry pastry filling.

The pecans are “bakers’ chop,” less than ¼-inch. You can use the bread of your choice. We use a soft, white bread like Potato Honey Bread.

Lou Ann’s Super Luscious Cinnamon Chip French Toast

This stuff is incredible. It's not like ordinary stuffed French toast. Stuffed French toast is way better than ordinary French toast. And this is way better that other stuffed French toast. The filling is a combination of whipped cream cheese and cinnamon chips. Cream cheese is a popular filling for stuffed French toast.

I don’t know of another recipe that combines cinnamon chips with the cream cheese. The chips melt on the griddle making pockets of sweet cinnamon in every bite.

This is a fabulous filling. But it doesn’t stop there. The French toast has an outside coating. It’s like a Monte Cristo sandwich that’s dipped in a batter and fried.

The original version of this recipe is dipped in a tempura-type batter and then fried in a pool of butter in a skillet. It's luscious and it’s easy to make.

There is another way to cook this—deep fry it instead of cooking it in a pan of butter. And yes, Monte Cristo sandwiches are cooked both ways.

 

Lou Ann’s Recipe

This stuffed French toast is lightly battered and fried in butter. The outside is light and crispy. It’s made with whipped cream cheese with cinnamon chips. Again, we recommend Potato Honey Bread but you can pick another.

Ingredients

 • 6 ounces cream cheese

 • 2 tablespoons sugar

 • 1/4 cup cinnamon chips

 • 10 slices good-quality bread

 • 1 large egg

 • 1 cup cold milk • 1/2 cup flour

• 1 teaspoon vanilla • butter for frying

 

Directions

1. Whip the cream cheese with the sugar until it is soft and fluffy. Fold in the cinnamon chips.

2. Spread the cream cheese mixture on half the slices of bread and top with the other half to form sandwiches.

3. Whisk the egg, milk, and vanilla together. Gradually stir in the flour until you have a smooth thin batter, like gravy.

4. Heat a skillet with a couple of tablespoons of butter in it. When the skillet is hot, dip the sandwiches in the egg mixture, turning to cover both sides, and then place them in the hot skillet.

5. Cook one side of the sandwiches and then the other until the French toast is lightly browned. Serve immediately.

 

About the Creator

Lou Ann is an expert in the kitchen. She is the only person we’ve ever known that would purchase a cookbook, start with the first recipe, and then bake her way through the book.

Her husband told me that if he could find a way to put her bed in the kitchen, she would be forever happy.

But she was more than a cook or a baker. She was an experimenter. We would give her a recipe to try and she would immediately try to improve it. Often her creations were amazing. We cherish her recipes.

 

The Alternative Method: Deep-Fried

This is the recipe for the batter only and how to deep-fry stuffed French toast. Everything before that is the same.

Ingredients for the batter

• 3 cups flour
• 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs 
• 2 2/3 cup water

Directions for the batter and cooking

1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. In another bowl, combine the eggs and water.
3. Pour the water mixture into the bowl of dry ingredient and stir until the batter is smooth.
4. Set aside and heat the oil in a deep pan for deep frying. The oil should be at least two inches deep. Heat the oil until it reaches 340 degrees.
5. Cut the sandwiches into halves or fourths. Dip each piece in the batter so that it is covered and then with tongs, immerse the battered French toast in the oil.
6. Cook the pieces, turning a couple times, until each is lightly browned, about four minutes.
7. Set the pieces on paper towels.

Baker's notes

1. Stuffed French toast is better with homemade bread. We have over 60 bread mixes. Most make fine French toast. If the read is soft and light, you may with to toast it lightly before using it.
2. Regardless of how you make stuffed French toast, we recommend Buttermilk Syrup. It's caramelly with notes of butterscotch. This French toast is luscious. Buttermilk syrup makes it even better. Get a Buttermilk Syrup Mix.
3. Lemon syrup is essential for the lemon stuffed French toast. Often, lemon has a "tinny" taste. This lemon syrup tastes' just like lemon pie.
4. Pastry fillings work fine in most stuffed French toast recipes. We have a great selection of pastry fillings. Pastry filings are much more concentrated than pie fillings.  Pie fillings work because there is a lot of filling in a pie and little filling in most pastries. Given how concentrated the fruit is pastry fillings are not expensive. 
5. Bavarian cream with or without another filling, works well in stuffed French toast.

 

Apple Pie Stuffed French Toast

This is apple pie stuffed French toast made with an apple pie filling.  This can also be made with apple pastry filling but when using pastry filling, go light with the filling. Pastry filling is is more concentrated pie filling.

Consider Caramel Whipped Cream for this French toast. 

How to Make the Caramel Whipped Cream

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon caramel flavor
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar

 Add the caramel and the brown sugar to the whipping cream and whip until stiff peaks form.

 

Peanut Butter Banana (or Jam) Stuffed French Toast

This is pretty straightforward: Make a peanut butter and banana sandwich and fry it on the griddle. 

You can also make a peanut butter and jam version of this. Just use jam instead of the banana.

But you can also deep fry it.  

Instead of dipping your sandwich in an egg batter, use a tempura batter. Deep frying with a tempura batter makes your stuffed French toast light and crispy. It’s not as quick, but in our classes, people always prefer this method. And yes, peanut butter and banana French toast made this way is remarkably good.

 

 

Baker's notes

1. Stuffed French toast is better with homemade bread. We have over 60 bread mixes. Most make fine French toast. If the read is soft and light, you may with to toast it lightly before using it.
2. Regardless of how you make stuffed French toast, we recommend Buttermilk Syrup. It's caramelly with notes of butterscotch. This French toast is luscious. Buttermilk syrup makes it even better. Get a Buttermilk Syrup Mix.
3. Lemon syrup is essential for the lemon stuffed French toast. Often, lemon has a "tinny" taste. This lemon syrup tastes' just like lemon pie.
4. Pastry fillings work fine in most stuffed French toast recipes. We have a great selection of pastry fillings. Pastry filings are much more concentrated than pie fillings.  Pie fillings work because there is a lot of filling in a pie and little filling in most pastries. Given how concentrated the fruit is pastry fillings are not expensive. 
5. Bavarian cream with or without another filling, works well in stuffed French toast.

 

How to Make French Toast Sticks

First, you take your bread and double-decker it; make it like a sandwich. You can put jam in the center. Peanut butter and jam is really cool. Next, you cut the sandwich into sticks, of approximately equal thickness on all sides. Then you soak them in egg wash like normal French toast and fry them. Simple. Be sure and cook them on all four sides.

(Read on to Learn More.)

 

21 More Stuffed French Toast Ideas

1. Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast: Just cream cheese filling.
2. Strawberries & Cream Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream filling with sliced fresh strawberries.
3. Raspberries & Cream Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream filling raspberry pastry filling.
4. Blueberry Cheesecake Stuffed French Toast: Blueberry pastry filling and cream cheese pastry filling.
5. PB & J Stuffed French Toast: Peanut butter and your favorite jam or jelly.
6. Banana Cream Pie Stuffed French Toast: Sliced bananas and Bavarian cream filling.
7. Cinnamon Burst Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream filling with cinnamon chips stirred into it.
8. Chocolate Cherry Stuffed French Toast: Cherry pastry filling with some chocolate chips or wafers sprinkled over the top.
9. Apple Pie Stuffed French Toast: Just apple pastry or pie filling.
10. Peanut Butter and Banana Stuffed French Toast: Creamy peanut butter topped with sliced bananas.
11. Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast: Canned pumpkin pie filling and cream cheese filling.
12. Toasted Coconut Stuffed French Toast: Cream cheese filling between 2 slices of bread dipped in the egg batter and then in coconut flakes, then grilled.
13. Strawberry & Banana Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream filling topped with sliced bananas and strawberries.
14. Huckleberry Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream topped with fresh huckleberries.
15. Chocolate Stuffed French Toast: Chocolate Pudding filled and then dipped in chocolate egg batter.
16. Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed French Toast: Creamy Peanut butter mixed with Bavarian cream topped with chocolate chips or wafers and dipped in chocolate egg batter.
17. Banana Split Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian cream, sliced bananas, maraschino cherries, and chopped nuts stuffed between 2 slices of bread.
18. Blueberry Lemon Stuffed French Toast: Blueberry pastry filling and lemon pastry filling.
19. Lemon Cream Pie Stuffed French Toast: Lemon pastry filling and Bavarian cream filling.
20. Cherry Cheesecake Stuffed French Toast: Cherry pastry filling and cream cheese filling.
21. Pecan Crust Stuffed French Toast: Bavarian or cream cheese filling but dipped in the egg batter, then chopped pecans before cooking.

 

This is a Strawberry Lemon Stuffed French Toast. That is a cream cheese filling with the strawberries. Bavarian cream would have worked with the strawberries.