Add a little Italy to your breakfast with these French Toast Cannolis.
It’s time for July’s Monthly Ingredient Challenge! Yes, I’m a few days late; but with Pioneer Day (the day we celebrate the pioneers coming to Utah; it’s bigger than the 4th of July here) and having family in town we got so busy I haven’t had much time to create recipes. In past months I’ve made dinners, desserts, drinks for the monthly ingredient challenge but I have yet to make breakfast. Well I’m changing that this month.
Have you ever been in a breakfast rut? You know, when you’ve had the same bowl of cereal or same egg sandwich everyday for weeks, months. That’s us. We have been enjoying Dutch Babies on the weekends but that’s just too much food for my boys and I during the week. I’ve also tried to start adding more variety to our meals. Instead of eating just a turkey wrap for lunch I’ve started adding some fruit and crackers to the mix too. I want to do the same thing with our breakfasts.
So when I was at the store and saw strawberries were on sale I new they would be a perfect addition to any breakfast (or lunch or dinner). Strawberries are our favorite fruit. You probably already know that from all the strawberry recipes I’ve shared, and we have loved having a side of strawberries almost every meal the last week. But it was time to incorporate them into the meal.
These french toast cannolis are bursting full of flavor, super easy to make and really filling too. Swapping out the ricotta cheese for cream cheese (July’s ingredient) really adds to the smooth, sweet flavor. So get yourself out of your breakfast rut and give these cannolis a try!
- 12 pieces of white bread
- 3/4 cup diced strawberries
- 4 oz cream cheese (1/2 a box)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 Tbsp melted butter
- cinnamon sugar
- Cut off the crust from bread.
- Using a rolling pin, roll bread flat.
- Spread cream cheese on bread.
- Add 1 Tbsp of diced strawberries to bread.
- Roll bread up and press end shut.
- In a bowl whisk together egg and milk.
- Dip cannolis into egg/milk mix.
- Cook in skillet over medium-low heat for 2 minutes.
- Flip and cook for an additional minute on each side.
- Pour melted butter over cooked cannolis and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
How do you mix things up at breakfast?
Don’t forget to check out the other great cream cheese recipes too!
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Karen @ Beatrice Euphemie says
July 27, 2015 at 12:04 pmOh, these look so yummy! I can’t wait to try these! Thanks for sharing <3 – Karen
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Ruthie says
July 27, 2015 at 5:55 pmThis looks SOOOOO good! My birthday is this weekend I may have to have my husband make this for me! 🙂
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Lindi says
July 27, 2015 at 8:49 pmPinning this!! These look soooo yummy!! Thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂
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April R @Uncookie Cutter says
July 27, 2015 at 9:35 pmWow!! Yum! These look amazing! We love some strawberries too! Thanks for sharing!
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Cristina @ I Say Nomato says
July 28, 2015 at 8:37 amThese are so cute! And they look absolutely delicious.
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Leia @ Eat It & Say Yum says
July 28, 2015 at 10:06 amYUM! Those sound amazing!!
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Jen @ Fresh Crush says
July 28, 2015 at 7:22 pmOh. My. You had me at french toast. Wow! These look amazing!
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Karren Haller says
July 29, 2015 at 8:06 amHello, I love the simplicity of these cannolis, I spotted these a few days ago and waited until today to comment, I wanted to invite you to stop by and share them on my Wordless Wednesday this week. I would love to feature them in the coming week.
Hope you have a minute to pop over.
Have a great week!
Karren
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Mary (The Godmother @ Goodie Godmother) says
July 29, 2015 at 10:09 amWhat a fun presentation for French toast! I bet my daughter would love these!
Jess says
July 29, 2015 at 2:40 pmI may have just drooled! Oh my goodness!
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Anne Payne says
July 29, 2015 at 4:55 pmOh wow! I love French Toast and Strawberries but I’ve never had Cannolis. I printed the recipe and will be trying these soon. Thanks for sharing at Cooking & Crafting blog hop.
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Tara Siudy (Little Miss Dexterous) says
July 31, 2015 at 6:26 amWow! These look amazing!!!!pinning and sharing!
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Jenna @ A Savory Feast says
July 31, 2015 at 2:48 pmMmmm! I love that these have cream cheese in them, too. They sound amazing!
simple nature decor says
August 1, 2015 at 11:22 amYUMMY! Your recipes are so amazing! Everyone in my family would go nuts, they are all French Toast fanatics. Thanks for sharing this at Dream Create and Inspire! Hugs and looking forward to hosting with you.
Maria
Lou Lou Girls says
August 2, 2015 at 4:02 pmI absolutely love this! Pinned and tweeted. Thank you so much for bringing such a masterpiece to our party. I hope to see you tomorrow at 7 pm. We can’t wait to party with you! Lou Lou Girls
Adelina Priddis says
August 7, 2015 at 8:16 amI am always in a breakfast rut!! These look so amazing, we’ll be trying them soon. Thanks for sharing on Weekend bites, I’m featuring you this week.
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