Cherry French Toast Rollups
Stuffed cherry french toast rollups are bursting with cream cheese and cherry goodness and rolled in cinnamon and sugar. What a fun way to eat french toast! Kids and adults will love this breakfast treat. Eating with your fingers has never been so much fun! These french toast rollups can be filled with many different kinds of fillings and can be sweet or savory. French toast has now been taken to a whole new level!!
What you need to make Cherry French Toast Rollups:
- 2 eggs
- 6 tbsp milk or cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 12 slices white sandwich type bread (make sure bread is soft and fresh so it is pliable)
- 3 oz softened cream cheese
- 3/4 cup cherry pie filling
- 3 tbsp butter
How to make Cherry French Toast Rollups:
- Place eggs, milk and vanilla in a medium size bowl for dipping the french toast in.
- Stir cinnamon and sugar together in medium size bowl for dipping cooked french toast rolls in.
- Remove the crusts from each slice of bread.
- Roll the bread slices flat with a rolling pin or you can flatten them out with your hand.
- Spread cream cheese on one end of the bread with a knife.
- Spread about 1 tablespoon of cherry pie filling over the cream cheese.
- Starting at the filling end roll the bread up like a jelly roll.
- Melt butter in a large frying pan.
- Dip each french toast rollup in the egg mixture coating the entire outside of the roll.
- Place french toast rollups seam side down in the hot buttered frying pan.
- Brown the rollups over medium high to medium heat by turning until all the sides are golden brown.
- Remove the rollups from the pan and roll them in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat all sides.
- Serve immediately. They are sweet and delicious as is but you can drizzle them with maple syrup if desired.
Variations for Cherry French Toast Rollups:
These yummy rollups are so versatile and lend themselves to all kinds of different fillings like sausage links, strawberries, Nutella spread, bananas, blueberries or blueberry pie filling, apple pie filling, chopped pecans or walnuts. Any combination of fillings would work and you are only limited by your imagination.
Other delicious breakfast ideas:
Cherry French Toast Rollups
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 6 tbsp milk or cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 12 slices white sandwich type bread (make sure bread is soft and fresh so it is pliable)
- 3 pz softened cream cheese
- 3/4 cup cherry pie filling
- 3 tbsp butter
Instructions
- Place eggs, milk and vanilla in a medium size bowl for dipping the french toast in.
- Stir cinnamon and sugar together in medium size bowl for dipping cooked french toast rolls in.
- Remove the crusts from outside edges of the bread.
- Roll the bread slices flat with a rolling pin or you can flatten them out with your hand.
- Spread cream cheese on one end of the bread with a knife.
- Spread about 1 tablespoon of cherry pie filling over the cream cheese. Do not overfill!
- Starting at the filling end, roll the bread up like a jelly roll.
- Melt the butter in a large frying pan.
- Dip each french toast rollup in the egg mixture to coat all sides.
- Place rollups seam side down in the hot buttered frying pan.
- Brown the rollups over medium high to medium heat, turning until all sides are golden brown.
- Remove the rollups from the pan and roll them in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat all sides.
- Serve immediately. These are delicious as is but you can drizzle with maple syrup if desired.
- Each rollup is approximately 190 calories.