(How to make Cherry Pecan French Toast) with Buttermilk White Bread.

This is a stuffed French toast made with a cherry pastry filling.  Variations can be made using other pastry fillings such as strawberry or cream cheese fillings.  

Cherry Pecan French Toast Recipe

This is stuffed French toast. It's easy and delightful, like a French toast cherry sandwich with crushed pecans for breakfast. In addition to having a filling between slices of bread, it has a crunchy outer coating.

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.

We recommend serving this with your choice of buttermilk syrups and caramel whipped cream.

For the French toast:

• Buttermilk White Bread or equal
• Eggs
• Milk
• a pinch of salt
• pecans

The pecans are “bakers’ chop,” less than ¼-inch.

Directions

1. Whisk the eggs, salt, and milk together; the amounts are determined by the number of bread slices you chose. You will need one to two eggs for each "sandwich you choose to cook.  You will want about 1/3 cup of milk for each two eggs. Whisk until the egg and milk combination is smooth. 
2. Create a "sandwich" by placing two slices of bread together, using the cherry pastry filling as the filling. 
3. Soak the sandwich in the egg mixture just until the egg mixture soaks halfway through the sandwich. Using a spatula, turn the sandwich over to soak the other side
4. The egg-washed sandwich is pressed into pecan pieces until there is a nut coating front and back.
5. Cook the sandwich on a hot griddle just as you would a cheese sandwich. The temperature should be set a little lower than normal so that the heat will have time to "soak through the double bread slices. When the bread is cooked through on one side, turn the bread over and cook the other side. You're cooking a custard here. The egg mixture should set, but not overcooked, making the eggs dry and tough.

Dennis Weaver