French Toast Roll Ups

Too soon to start planning Christmas breakfast? 😂  If you share my love of breakfast food, you'll agree that it's NEVER too early to start planning that all important morning meal. 🥞 🧇🍳  Most important meal of the day, am I right? 😅  

There's a lot happening on Christmas morning in our house.  We unpack stockings and exchange gifts and in between, we sneak in sips of coffee and nibble on pastries.🥐 ☕️ Now that we have adult children, I feel like every year, the time spent unwrapping our Christmas presents gets longer and longer.  If you would have told me, 20 years ago,  that celebrating Christmas morning with 20 somethings would be just as much fun as celebrating with toddlers, I never would have believed it.  But it's absolutely true.  

Just to state the obvious - Christmas morning with adults is more leisurely and relaxed than Christmas morning with babies and toddlers.😂  And in this season of unhurried Christmas mornings, we find ourselves eating Christmas brunch, later and later every year.  If you ask me though, breakfast food is good ANYTIME of day.  

Typically, I make cinnamon rolls on the 24th of December and I get up on Christmas morning and pop them in the oven to bake while we open gifts.  But every tradition needs a little shake up now and then.  Like a French Toast Roll Up shake up.  These delicious little gems are super easy to put together and they would make the perfect Christmas morning treats.  

French Toast Roll Ups
1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
8 slices thick, soft bread
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Topping
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

​Icing
2 Tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup cream cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Mix together 1/2 cup butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. 

Cut crusts from each bread slice and flatten with rolling pin.

Spread cinnamon mixture over each bread slice.  

Whisk together eggs, milk and vanilla.

Roll each piece of bread. 

Dip into egg mixture briefly. ​

Melt butter in skillet.  

Fry each roll until browned on each side. 

Combine cinnamon and sugar for topping.  

Dip each roll in sugar mixture to coat.  

Mix together icing ingredients. 

Transfer icing to a piping bag.  

Drizzle icing over rolls. 

Merry Christmas!  Ciao!

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