Wicked Chocolate and Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

Thick slices of French bread, stuffed with cream cheese 

and chocolate, and finished off with a sugar crust, then

garnished with chocolate sauce, whipped cream and

fresh fruit - oh wow, this is the way to start the day!

Beaulah thinks this is a pretty wicked way to start the day.

I need my breakfast more around brunch time, so I

would rather serve this for brunch, maybe even dinner.

I love breakfast foods at dinner!

Making stuffed French toast is as easy as making a sandwich.

 We had this fabulous Chocolate

and Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast in Cabo at

Solomon's Landing.  Of course we had to come home and

create it ourselves.

You can stuff your French toast with anything.  This is one of

our family favorites - vanilla buttercream sprinkled with 

cinnamon sugar, a sort of Snickerdoodle Stuffed French Toast.

My husband was the one who came up with making

stuffed French toast when the kids were little.  We often

would put out all kinds of ingredients and let them

choose what to fill theirs with.

Chocolate and Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

8 thick slices French bread

Tub of whipped cream cheese

Semi-sweet chocolate chips

3 eggs

1/2 C. milk

2 T. sugar

1/4 tsp. vanilla

Dash of cinnamon

Brown sugar or Cinnamon sugar

Chocolate sauce

Whipped cream

Strawberries

Start with two pieces of French bread.  Spread one side with

whipped cream cheese.  Top with a generous amount of chocolate

chips.  Place the other piece of bread on top to make a sandwich.

In a shallow dish like a pie plate, whisk the eggs, then add the milk,

sugar, vanilla and a sprinkle of cinnamon.  Dip all sides of the

bread in the egg mix.  

Heat a large frying pan or griddle and butter the pan.  Fry both sides

of the French toast until golden brown.  On one side press brown sugar

or cinnamon sugar into the bread and place back in pan or on 

griddle to melt the sugar.

Remove from heat, cut in half and garnish with chocolate

sauce, whipped cream and berries.

Snickerdoodle Stuffed French Toast

Repeat above only using vanilla buttercream for the filling

and sprinkling cinnamon sugar on top of the buttercream

before making the sandwich.

This is so delicious, you don't even need syrup, but you

can always serve that on the side.

Even if you don't consider yourself a cook, you can impress

everyone with stuffed French toast.

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Grandkid's Valentine's Day Party

Valentine's Day used to just be for my sweetheart and me

but as the kids grew, they wanted in on the party too.

How can you blame them as the house gets decorated and 

filled with hearts and candy galore?

This year we decided to make it special for all of the little

kiddies too.

We set the table simply -  filled with red and hearts

starting with a heart shaped placemat, a red plate and red flatware,

and of course we had to have candy,

and more candy.

We even broke out the cloth napkins for them.

One of my children's favorite items on a fancy table

was to have candles lit, so we lit

these fun heart candle holders I got a couple

of years ago.

It's always pretty hard to keep the candles lit, but I

guess that is part of the fun - to blow the candles out.

I also have this large heart shaped candle holder,

but it didn't look quite right with the plain candle

it came with.

So I had to pop in a red votive candle holder.  

This grand candle holder is a new purchase this year.

How exciting it was for them to see their own table.

Of course, some didn't eat much but the chocolate

hearts, but IT IS GRANDMA'S HOUSE!!

A cake pedestal filled with Little Debbie's cakes was

a hit also.

The whole meal was a no work meal -

Pizza Delivery

Pop

Valentine's Cakes and Candies.

The cake was served on this fun red cake pedestal that I

bought for this Christmas and never even thought about

it for Valentine's Day.

They were really taken with these cups and the

low handle.  I had two miniature ones for the

little 3 year old and 2 1/2 year old.

It was really fun, but that wasn't all.....

That was followed up with a 

first ever sleepover

 for all six of them

(the two infants stayed with their parents.)

We lined up all six of them up on sleeping pads

and had a little toy on their pad for them.

Grandma slept right by them in the hallway in case

anyone needed me during the night.

Of course, they want to do it again soon!

The next morning we had the parents come over for a

breakfast of Stuffed French Toast and Bacon.

(I will have to do a post on that recipe.  It is

one of our favorite breakfast foods.)

  The kids had fun wearing Grandma's dress ups.

Happy Valentine's Day to a bunch of sweeties.

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