Amazing French Toast

My friend Brett has been making lots of bread.  His chocolate sourdough was the inspiration for one of the most delightful french toasts I’ve ever made.

Cream Cheese and Almond Butter Stuffed
Chocolate Sourdough French Toast
with Bananas Foster Sauce

  • 1 loaf chocolate sourdough bread, sliced thinly (pieces kept in order)
  • 4 ounces softened cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup almond butter
  • 3 eggs
  • About 1/2 cup of milk
  • spices as you like for the batter
  • 3 Tbl butter (plus more for the griddle)
  • 4 1/2 Tbl brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ginger
  • 6 bananas, sliced into thick chunks
  • 1/2 cup dark rum
  1. Mix the almond butter and cream cheese together. You’ll wind up with a spread the consistency of processed peanut butter.
  2. Make a bunch of cream cheese and almond butter sandwiches with the bread.
  3. Mix together the eggs, milk, and spices for the batter (I typically use cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom) in a shallow baking dish.
  4. Put the sandwiches in the eggwash, let them soak briefly; flip to soak the second side, then cook in butter on a hot griddle as you would for any other french toast.
  5. For the fosters, heat the butter and brown sugar in a saute pan. Stir together with a wooden spoon. Let the mixture get hot and bubbly.
  6. Add the bananas. Toss to coat with the sugar. They’ll release some juice, thinning out the sugar sauce. Add the rum. Let it get hot, then use a bamboo skewer like a long match to flame the rum without singeing your arm hair. Let the flame burn out. This will burn off all the alcohol in the rum whilst caramelizing the sugars.
  7. Serve the french toast topped with a generous measure of bananas foster sauce.

One Response to “Amazing French Toast”

  1. jim Says:

    As my dear grandmother Florence used to say, “that’s gilding the lily.”

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