Strawberry Cream Cheese Stuffed French toast

This was my sister's favorite thing when she was pregnant with her second child.





Ingredients:


filling:
8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
2 tablespoons strawberry preserves
4 eggs


1/2 Cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 slices of challah bread or some other thick sliced bread
butter





-In a bowl mix the cream cheese and preserves, until smooth
-In another bowl whisk together eggs, milk and extract. Pour into a pie plate.
-Carefully slice a pocket into the side of each slice of bread. Do not cut all the way through, you just want a pocket.
-Fill pocket with cream cheese mixture
-Heat skillet to med heat and melt butter
-Dip the filled bread into the egg mixture and brown in skillet on both sides


Serve with warm syrup.